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Wheel-well stowaways have been widely covered in the press and media at large throughout the history of passenger airlines.One of the most notable incidents involved Keith Sapsford (14) from Sydney, Australia, who fell 200 feet (60 m) to his death from the wheel-well of a Tokyo-bound Japan Air Lines Douglas DC-8 on February 24, 1970, shortly after takeoff from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.
"The Extraordinary Landing of TACA International Flight 110". The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. "Miraculous Plane Landing on New Orleans Levee". Smithsonian Channel. April 10, 2013. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. NTSB Final Report March 25, 1991. NTSB Synopsis
Some VTOL aircraft can operate in other modes as well, such as CTOL (conventional take-off and landing), STOL (short take-off and landing), and/or STOVL (short take-off and vertical landing). Others, such as some helicopters, can only operate by VTOL, due to the aircraft lacking landing gear that can handle horizontal motion.
Dramatic video shows the moment the pilot of a small plane made a “textbook” emergency landing on just one wheel. Footage from Tuesday afternoon shows the Cape Air Cessna 402C heading back to ...
Video obtained by CNN shows the plane landing hard on the runway, with the plane’s rear landing gear buckling and the right wing soon shearing away in a fireball. The fuselage rolled over as it ...
US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States.On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all engine power.
A small plane made an emergency landing on a stretch of New York Thruway Friday, miraculously without injuring the pilot and two passengers or any drivers.
In aviation, the instrument landing system (ILS) is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to approach a runway at night or in bad weather. In its original form, it allows an aircraft to approach until it is 200 feet (61 m) over the ground, within a 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 m) of the runway.