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Trigana Air Flight 267 was a scheduled passenger flight from Sentani to Oksibil in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua.On 16 August 2015, the ATR 42 turboprop operating the service crashed on approach in the Bintang highlands region of Oksibil, killing all 49 passengers and 5 crew members.
Vee H Aviation Pty Ltd, operating as Link Airways, formerly known as Fly Corporate, is an Australian regional airline based at Brisbane Airport, Queensland. The airline operates scheduled regional passenger services in Queensland, New South Wales , Victoria , Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory .
Airplane gliding occurs when all the engines of an aircraft shut down, but the wings are still functional and can be used for a controlled descent. This is a very rare condition in multi-engine airliners, [1] though it is the obvious result when a single-engine airplane experiences engine failure.
A brake overheat warning system would have warned the crew that there was a problem. However, no such system was required on this type of aircraft, so Flight 420's crew had no idea that a fire had developed. The fire then ruptured the aircraft's hydraulic line, located near the wheel well, which caused the fire to intensify. [1]: 29-33
Some experts say that the crash of Continental Express Flight 2574 was the most dramatic turning point for "safety culture" in the United States. [10] NTSB member Dr. John Lauber suggested that the probable cause of the accident included "The failure of Continental Express management to establish a corporate culture which encouraged and ...
At least eight cancer doctors who were heading to an oncology conference were among dozens killed in a plane crash in Brazil’s Vinhedo on Friday, an official has said.. The ATR 72 twin-engine ...
On 17 November 1957, G-AOHP of British European Airways crashed at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause was a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. [15] On 6 April 1958, N7437, operating Capital Airlines Flight 67, stalled and crashed on approach to Tri-City Airport, Michigan ...
Forensics experts at Sao Paulo's morgue had by Tuesday identified the bodies of 35 of the 62 people who were killed in a plane crash in a residential area of Vinhedo last week, killing all aboard ...