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Indigenous writer and advocate Vine Deloria officially endorsed Catton's work in his quotation on the book's back cover. He called it "one of the most important books I have read in my lifetime." In a 2021 guest post titled, "Overshoot: Where We Now Stand," Michael Dowd wrote that Catton's book is "the single most important book I have ever read."
A. 1996 Air Africa Antonov An-32 crash; Air France Flight 007; Air France Flight 358; Air India Express Flight 812; Air India Express Flight 1344; Allied Air Flight 111
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-409, registered as B-165, was a 5-month-old Boeing 747-400 manufactured in June 1993. It was powered by four Pratt & Whitney PW4056 turbofan engines and had only logged 1,969 flight hours in 359 takeoff and landing cycles at the time of the accident.
World Airways Flight 30 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF airliner which suffered a fatal accident upon landing at Logan International Airport in Boston after departing Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey on January 23, 1982.
The crew attempted to turn the now burning aircraft towards the runway with the intent of an emergency landing. However, the faulty charts led them to crash into high ground five miles east-north-east of the airfield [12] at about 23:32 UTC. [13] All 30 passengers (22 Dutch, 6 German, 1 British and 1 Irish [5]) and the 10 crew died. Rescue ...
The Airbus A320 took off from San Diego International Airport at 5:01 p.m. CDT (3:01 pm in San Diego). It was scheduled to land at 8:01 p.m. CDT. [5] Just under two hours after takeoff, at 6:56 p.m. CDT, Air Traffic Control lost radio contact with the aircraft while it was over Denver.
Seating chart for American Airlines Flight 1420 created by the NTSB, revealing the location of passengers and lack of injury, severity of injuries, and deaths. The aircraft involved in the incident was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration N215AA [2]), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft.
A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tu-134A (LZ-TUR) crashed short of the runway at Sofia Airport while attempting an overshoot after coming in too low, killing all 50 on board. [31] 25 May 1984 Soviet Air Force Tu-134Sh2 02 lost control, broke up in mid-air and crashed near Donetsk, killing all seven on board. Two wires to the backup yaw damper had ...