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The accident sequence started when the pilots performed several nonstandard maneuvers at 15,000 feet (4,600 m), including a pitch-up at 2.3 g (23 m/s 2) that induced a stall warning. They set the autopilot to climb at 500 feet per minute (150 m/min) to FL410.
Bering Air Flight 445 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Bering Air from Unalakleet Airport to Nome Airport, in the U.S. state of Alaska.On February 6, 2025, the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan operating the flight crashed while flying over the Norton Sound.
[5]: 16 With all contradictory warnings given by the plane, the confused captain decided to reduce thrust of the plane, believing it was flying too fast. [5]: 18 This action immediately triggered the 757's stick shaker stall alert, warning the confused pilots that the aircraft was flying dangerously slow. Also, the autopilot disengaged.
Coffin corner (also known as the aerodynamic ceiling [1] or Q corner) is the region of flight where a fast but subsonic fixed-wing aircraft's stall speed is near the critical Mach number, making it very difficult to keep an airplane in stable flight. Because the stall speed is the minimum speed required to maintain level flight, any reduction ...
The pilots and the flight engineer, two of 10 flight attendants, and 96 of 163 passengers died; 75 passengers and crew survived. The crash occurred while the entire cockpit crew was preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light.
Kissimmee airport manager Ramon Senorans told the station that the plane took off under visual flight rules, requiring pilots to avoid clouds and remain at a minimum of 1,000ft.
Western Airlines Flight 2605, nicknamed the "Night Owl", [2] was an international scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to Mexico City, Mexico.On October 31, 1979, at 5:42 a.m. CST (UTC−06:00), the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 used on the flight crashed at Mexico City International Airport in fog after landing on a runway that was closed for maintenance.
Ruby Franke, the Utah mom behind the now-defunct family YouTube channel "8 Passengers," was arrested Wednesday on child abuse charges after authorities found a malnourished minor with open wounds ...