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...
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....
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...
Colgan Air Flight 3407, a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, stalled and crashed during landing approach near Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Feb. 12, 2009. The plane slammed into a house. All 45 passengers and four crew members were killed. CL...
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. ...
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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
The author mentions that the fleet 5,000 hours of flight time during the RCAF's fighter jet training activity, held February 3, 2012. He notes that the achievement was made possible because of the significant efforts of the CC-130J maintainers at 436 Squadron. 年份: 2011 ...