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A witness saw smoke coming from one of the engines of an old military plane that crashed last week shortly after taking off on a flight to deliver fuel to a remote Alaska village, according to a ...
An American Airlines plane had to be evacuated in North Carolina after smoke was detected coming from the plane, with a flight attendant taken to a nearby hospital, according to officials.
An Air China flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the engine caught fire and the plane cabin filled with smoke.. Flight CA403 was flying to Singapore from Chengdu, China on 10 ...
Due to the lack of time and controls of the plane, both pilots decided to land the plane at Toluca - Mexico highway. [4] [5] A problem developed on the plane's landing gear and caused a short circuit. The short circuit caused small fires on the aircraft, with smoke emitting from its engines. The aircraft then slammed onto the highway with its ...
The captain of Flight 295 was 49-year-old Dawid Jacobus Uys, a former South African Air Force pilot with 13,843 hours' experience of which 3,884 hours was on the Boeing 747 series airplanes. [9] Uys was described by colleagues as professional and skilled and at the time of the accident was considering retiring to take up a role with the South ...
A Swiss International Air Lines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Monday due to smoke in the cabin and cockpit, the airline said. Swiss plane makes emergency landing due to smoke on board
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).
Part of a Frontier Airlines plane caught fire upon landing in Las Vegas last month. 19 passengers suing the airline say they were kept on a smoke-filled plane for nearly an hour.