Feb. 13, 2009 -- The last conversation between the co-pilot of Continental Express flight 3407 and air traffic control sounded perfectly calm moments before the plane crashed into a suburban home near Buffalo, N.Y., late Thursday night, killing 50. The co-pilot checked in with air...
The Kremlin has confirmed that Russian figure skaters, as well as other Russian nationals, were on the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River near Washington, DC. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to reporters Thursday that Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov...
It’s been 16 years since a Colgan Air plane crashed on approach to Buffalo, killing 50 in February 2009. Until yesterday, there was not another significant airline crash in the United States since that day. A remarkable safety record, and we find ourselves in a vastly different world now....
Among commercial flights,Asiana Airlines Flight 214crashed on landing at San Francisco International airport in 2013, with three fatalities. Prior to that,Colgan Flight 3407 crashed on final approach to the Buffalo International Airportin 2009, killing 50 people. Travelers have become accustomed to a ...
The flight plan was to allow the crew to fly round Mount Kenya before landing at a private airstrip in the game park. The air- plane crashed into the eastern slope of Point Lenana (16,450 feet), which is the third highest peak of Mount Kenya. The crash site was located approx. 450...
applying nose-up control input. The first officer retracted the flaps, without consulting with the pilot in command, and then the aircraft yawed, pitched, and rolled dangerously through 90 degrees of travel for 25 seconds as it stalled. It dove nose down and crashed into a private home five...
The results also indicate that the Oneirograph analytic system can be applied to other typical dream situations as well (e.g., flying, falling), each of which can be computationally mapped in terms of a distinctive constellation of characters, activities, and settings....
As the first of the fleet of passenger airships run by the Deutsche Luftshiffahrt A.G., Deutschland crashed heavily only six days after her maiden flight. All thirty- three passengers were saved but the ship was seriously damaged and had to be dismantled. Undaunted by the disaster, the ...
Still, all was not well for the XF7F. The first prototype crashed in May 1944 and even it demonstrated marginal, if not lethal, spin characteristics and high-speed dive recovery. The normal Navy SR-38D spin-demonstration requirement was five turns in both directions, both from upright and ...
(that the Dodgers) were moving (to Los Angeles), but I did. We had terrible head winds and we stopped in Oklahoma City for fuel. We were about two hours late. Several thousand cheering fans and officials were still on hand, despite the delay, to greet the arrival of the Dodger ...