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Fairey III-F aircraft landing on board British aircraft carrier HMS Furious circa early 1930s. Arresting gear wires are visible above the flight deck. Arresting cable systems were invented by Hugh Robinson [when?] and were used by Eugene Ely on his first landing on a ship—the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania, on 18 January 1911.
Crews working at the site of the deadliest aviation disaster in a generation have recovered all 67 victims of the collision between two aircraft over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, officials ...
The port side cargo door of a Lockheed C-130B Hercules, 61-961, [200] explosively blows off the aircraft at 19,000 feet above the Smoky Mountain resort town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, carrying one crewman to his death and another hanging onto a chain outside the aircraft as the fuselage decompresses. Crew chief Jose Gallegoes, 32, was holding a ...
The aircraft was flying at a speed of 470 knots (870 km/h; 541 mph) and at an altitude of between 80 and 100 metres (260 and 330 ft) in a narrow valley between mountains. [ 7 ] When reaching approximately 46°17′01″N 11°28′02″E / 46.2837°N 11.4672°E / 46.2837; 11.4672 , the aircraft's right wing struck the cables from ...
Aircraft catching the wire while landing on an aircraft carrier A tailhook , arresting hook , or arrester hook is a device attached to the empennage (rear) of some military fixed-wing aircraft . The hook is used to achieve rapid deceleration during routine landings aboard aircraft carrier flight decks at sea, or during emergency landings or ...
The accident aircraft, registration N14053, [6] was an Airbus A300 B4-605R delivered new to American Airlines on 12 July 1988. The aircraft's first flight was on 9 December 1987 and it was the first "R" model A300-600 built. On the day of the accident, it was in a two-class seating configuration with space for 251 passengers, and all seats were ...
A timeline of the Washington, D.C., plane crash on Jan. 29 details the moments before and after an American Airlines passenger flight and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac.
The crash was the result of the aircraft missing the last arresting cable, while ignoring a wave-off command. Two Grumman F-14 Tomcats struck and destroyed (BuNos. 161138 and 160385), three F-14s, nine LTV A-7 Corsair IIs, three S-3A Vikings, one Grumman A-6 Intruder and one Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King damaged. [44]