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Standard FAA flight plan form. Type: Type of flight plan. Flights may be VFR, IFR, DVFR, or a combination of types, termed composite. Aircraft Identification: The registration of the aircraft, usually the flight or tail number. Aircraft Type/Special Equipment: The type of aircraft and how it is equipped.
Flight plans mix metric and non-metric units of measurement. The particular units used may vary by aircraft, airline, and location across a flight. Since 1979, [4] the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has recommended a unification of units of measurement within aviation based on the International System of Units (SI). [5]
According to the Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network, it would be the third major shooting down of a civilian aircraft linked to armed conflict since 2014, along with Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. [107] [108] Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down near a war zone in 1988. [109]
It was the first major commercial passenger flight accident in the U.S. in nearly 16 years, following Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009. It was also the first fatal crash involving American Airlines since Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, [51] as well as the first fatal crash of a CRJ700 series aircraft. [52]
In 2016, The House Theatre of Chicago produced United Flight 232. The play was a new work directed and adapted by Vanessa Stalling and based on the book Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales. Surviving crew members attended the play in April 2016, [47] and the production was subsequently nominated for six Equity Jeff Awards, winning two.
The flight plan is generally determined on the ground, before departure either by the pilot for smaller aircraft or a professional dispatcher for airliners. It is entered into the FMS either by typing it in, selecting it from a saved library of common routes (Company Routes) or via an ACARS datalink with the airline dispatch center.
Navtech's first product was Navtech Flight Plan, now marketed as Navblue Flight Plan. This allows airlines to manage the costs associated with flight operations, minimizing spending on fuel consumption, operating costs, and flight time. Navtech has developed two aircraft performance computer applications:
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