There has not been a fatal crash of a U.S. airliner since 2009, when a Colgan Air plane operated for Continental crashed near Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground. However, a surge in close calls between planes at U.S. airports in th...
The Max is the latest addition to Boeing’s 737 family of aircraft. The 737 family has far eclipsed all rivals as themost popular commercial airliner ever built, with more than 10,000 sold worldwide since its introduction in 1967. Some carriers, such as Southwest Airline...
Assuming the software has proper coding and no bad lines of code (the big “if”) maybe the “error” can be offset. IMO, Boeing designed and built this plane (the MD way on the cheap) by doing a flawed extension of an existing platform which has proved to be a big engineering “...
Immediate response to airliner accidents in the United States is controlled primarily by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), who work in concert with local emergency services, the relevant airline com- pany, and others in providing assistance...
“The intense, and deeply disturbing, nightmares you experienced regarding wire encounters are not uncommon among pilots. I had these long before I began flying into airstrips where man-made obstructions could be a factor.” So we want to know – have you had any aviation nightmares or anxiet...
The show enjoyed considerable success during its three-year run and established the Osmonds as prominent figures in American entertainment. January 21, 1976 - Concorde’s First Commercial FlightOn this day, Concorde, the iconic supersonic airliner, took its first commercial flights. Departing ...
They’re known as the black box. When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine (潜水艇) detected the device’s ...
He has the advantage down there. Bring me a hostage. A woman. INT. FORWARD BAGGAGE HOLD. Marshall sees that the stairway hatch has been sealed. INT. LOWER GALLEY - NIGHT Marshall hits the button for the dumbwaiter. The dumbwaiter begins to descend then snags on the service cart. Its ...
Below is a chart that shows how this normal risk of death increases as you get older. E.g, the odds that an average 18-year-old American male will die within their next 1,000 life-hours is about 0.01%. This happens to be exactly the same odds as traveling on a commercial airliner,...
As the crowded airliner is about to take off, the peace is shattered by a five-year-old boy who picks that moment to throw a wild temper tantrum. No matter what his frustrated, embarrassed mother does to try to calm him down, the boy continues to scream furiously and kick the seats ar...