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Virgin Atlantic Flight 024 was a regularly scheduled Virgin Atlantic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to London, United Kingdom. On 5 November 1997, the Airbus A340 was forced to make an emergency landing at London Heathrow Airport after the left main landing gear failed to deploy.
The aircraft landed safely around an hour after take-off
5 November – a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-311 G-VSKY suffered a partial undercarriage failure while being prepared for a landing at London Heathrow Airport. After numerous attempts to free the jammed left main undercarriage, an emergency landing was made. The aircraft suffered substantial damage.
Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was established in 1984 as British Atlantic Airways , and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between ...
One passenger plane, a Virgin Atlantic flight traveling from Washington to London was pushed to nearly 1300kph (800mph), faster than the speed of sound, according to the US National Weather Service.
A small plane made a emergency landing around Exit 23 outside Albany. NY State Police “This is very, very unique for a plane to land on the thruway successfully not striking any vehicles and ...
On 4 April 1974, a Douglas DC-4 crashed while making an emergency landing due to engine failure, killing 78 of the 84 passengers and crew. 1999 Air Botswana incident: On 11 October 1999, Chris Patswe, a former Air Botswana pilot, hijacked an aircraft and crashed it into another plane. He was the only person who died.
The two pilots who were aboard a military aircraft when it crashed near Shelter Island in San Diego are in "good condition" and under 24-hour medical observation, U.S. Navy officials said.. The ...