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  2. What pilots say could have caused a Delta plane to flip belly up

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    In 2018, a Southwest Airlines plane experienced an engine failure in which one of the fan blades broke due to metal fatigue, causing fragments of the engine to escape and hit a passenger window ...

  3. Pilot fatigue - Wikipedia

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    The NTSB concluded that the flight crew were experiencing fatigue, but was unable to determine how much it degraded their performance. [32] On January 25, 2010, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 occupants on board. It is widely believed that fatigue among ...

  4. List of aircraft structural failures - Wikipedia

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    Fatigue 12 The accident was caused by a fatigue crack in the spline, which ultimately caused the power transmission shaft to fail. The helicopter crashed into the sea. [13] 1997-12-19 SilkAir Flight 185: Musi River, Palembang, Indonesia Boeing 737-300: Pilot suicide (disputed by NTSC) 104

  5. Colgan Air Flight 3407 - Wikipedia

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    Colgan Air Flight 3407 (marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407) was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, US to Buffalo, New York, US on February 12, 2009. Colgan Air staffed and maintained the aircraft used on the flight that was scheduled, marketed, and sold by Continental Airlines under its Continental Connection brand.

  6. What is turbulence and can it cause your plane to crash? - AOL

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    “Microbursts cause fewer accidents now than they did in the 1990s. See the American accident at Little Rock in 1999 (an MD-82, flight AA1420). Better extreme weather detection systems exist and ...

  7. Plane crashes spark renewed fear of flying: 10 causes of ...

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    A commuter plane was then found wrecked off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 7, with all 10 people on board deceased, after the flight traveling from Unalakleet to Nome disappeared the day prior. Read ...

  8. Loss of control (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    Aeroflot Flight 8641 Metal fatigue in the jackscrew of the horizontal stabilizer caused the component to fail while the plane was en route from Leningrad to Kyiv, Ukraine, on 28 June 1982. The crew lost control of the plane, and at 10:50 crashed just south of the city of Mazyr in Belarus, killing all on board.

  9. Mechanical failure or human error? What might've caused ... - AOL

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    What might've caused the D.C. plane crash that killed 67 people ... One expert believes the crash could have been due to a misunderstanding between air traffic controllers and the Black Hawk crew ...