“I look up and it’s a tire spinning at a rapid speed,” Glass said. “It bounced in the staff parking lot and it bounced onto a car, a small compact car and I thought that it was going to crush that car and stay there but it actually bounced again really high,...
I was on a plane to Tegucigalpa, Honduras from Florida in 1997. I was about 11 or 12. The plane had a tire blowout on contact with the runway. I imagine the pilot had a quick decision to make about whether to abort the landing or continue. He apparently elected to decelerate the plan...
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War missions would have been essentially one-way, taking off from forward bases in Alaska or Greenland, overflying the USSR, and landing in Europe, North Africa (Morocco), or the Middle East. Ironically, recollections of crew veterans reveal that while crews were confident of their ability to...
(A/ P Age in Years) Type of Operation Accident Location Phase of Flight Event Description Damage Category Hull Injury Onboard Fatalities Major Loss Category / Occupants Accident (External Fatalities) MD-82 (26) Sched Kinshasa, Pax CongoDR Takeoff Damage from a burst tire on takeoff caused the...