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Starting in 2020, Piper offered an emergency autoland system by Garmin, which initiates at the push of a button. Built into the G3000 integrated avionics for the new SLS model, the system will be a first in general aviation, along with the Cirrus Vision Jet. [21] Piper calls the technology "HALO". [22]
The Trident's autoland system pioneered the use of lower landing minima, initially with Category 2 (100 ft decision height and 400 metres RVR) and soon after "zero-zero" (Category 3C) conditions. Since Tridents could operate safely to airfields equipped with suitable ILS installations, they could operate schedules regardless of weather, while ...
When Mitchell calls the ship's ready room to report his status, the officers to whom he speaks initially refuse to believe that he is still alive. The incident will be immortalized in The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe , which refers to Mitchell by the alias of "accident-prone Mitch Johnson".
British Airways Flight 268 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to London Heathrow.On February 20, 2005, the innermost left engine burst into flames triggered by an engine compressor stall almost immediately after takeoff.
The antitrust investigation was due to be completed ahead of Farnborough Airshow 2018 to allow for a marketing boost, [131] and it was planned to rebrand the CSeries as an Airbus model, with A200 suggested as a family name and A210/A230 for the CS100 and CS300. [132]
The report has an immediate purpose: to help the court determine an appropriate sentence as well as aide in officer sentencing recommendations. The report serves to collect objective, relevant, and factual information on a specific defendant. [7] Since the advent of the sentencing guidelines, the importance of the presentence reports has increased.
Crossair Flight 498 was a scheduled commuter flight from Zürich, Switzerland, to Dresden, Germany.On 10 January 2000, the Saab 340B operating the flight crashed two minutes after takeoff in the Swiss municipality of Niederhasli on 10 January 2000, killing all 10 passengers and crew.
With limited accident investigation tools at the time, it was at first believed that the most likely cause was the plane flying into windshear, but the Civil Aeronautics Board report concluded that the probable cause was a lightning strike. [1] [2] U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was among the 21 passengers and 4 crew members killed.