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Southern Airways Flight 242 was a flight from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with a stop in Huntsville, Alabama.On April 4, 1977, it executed a forced landing on Georgia State Route 381 in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States, after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm.
Hail is a form of solid precipitation. [1] It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. [2] It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. [3]
hail A type of solid precipitation that consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, usually 5–150 mm (0.20–5.91 in) in diameter, each of which is called a hailstone. Hail formation requires environments with strong, upward motion of air and low altitudes at which water freezes, which makes it possible within most thunderstorms.
Plane carrying 173 passengers and six crew made a mayday call after hailstones from a “thunderstorm cell” ripped apart its nose and damaged cockpit windows.
The aircraft thankfully managed to land safely in the end, but passengers were shocked when they disembarked to see the damage the storm did to the plane. Terrifying hailstorm damages front of ...
External FOD hazards include bird strikes, hail, ice, sandstorms, ash-clouds or objects left on a runway or flight deck. Internal FOD hazards include items left in the cockpit that interfere with flight safety by getting tangled in control cables, jam moving parts or short-out electrical connections.
Hail is a chunk of ice that can fall during thunderstorms. Unlike snow, sleet, freezing rain, and graupel, which occur in colder weather, hail is most common in warm conditions, during spring and ...
A storm seen at the Baltic Sea near the island of Öland, Sweden.. A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body. [citation needed] It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation (snowstorm, rainstorm), heavy freezing rain ...