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In commercial aviation, the crew responsible for operating and controlling the aircraft are called flight crew.Some flight crew position names are derived from nautical terms and indicate a rank or command structure similar to that on ocean-going vessels, allowing for quick executive decision making during normal operations or emergency situations.
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Disasters and accidents Five people die after a light plane catches fire on take-off at Caboolture Airport in Queensland, Australia. (The Guardian) At least 35 people die in Balochistan, Pakistan, in a collision between a petrol tanker and two buses. (PTI via Business Standard) 2014 Oso mudslide: A landslide kills two people, and injures six in Oso, Washington, United States. (CNN) 2014 ...
March 5 – at Saint-Forget, France a Socata Rallye MS.892 (registered as F-BLSO) collided midair with a Cessna F150 (registered as F-BSIQ) killing the instructor and student pilot in the latter aircraft. After investigation, the BEA called for obligatory use of transponders in a large zone around Paris. [33]
Flight attendants on QantasLink Flight 1737 prevented their plane from being hijacked by a passenger with mental health issues. Two of them were taken to hospital with stab wounds. [110] Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered a decompression which tore an 18 ft (5.5 m) section of fuselage away from the plane. The only fatality was flight attendant ...
The separatists claim to have shot the plane down, but Ukrainian defense officials say that the shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles available to the separatists lack the capability to hit a plane flying at such a high altitude and accuse Russia of shooting down the plane, either with a Pantsir-S1 (NATO reporting name "SA-22 Greyhound ...
On 24 March 2015, the aircraft, an Airbus A320-211, crashed 100 km (62 mi; 54 nmi) north-west of Nice in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The crash was deliberately caused by the co-pilot , Andreas Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies and declared unfit to work by his doctor.
Politics and elections 2014 Venezuelan protests: Clashes continue between anti-government protesters and security forces after 41 people are arrested. (Al Jazeera) Proposals to change the automatic trade union affiliation with the UK Labour Party are passed at a special party conference vote by 86% to 14%. (BBC News) Sport In association football, having headbutted a player on the opposing ...