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There is no record of a talk-down landing of a large commercial aircraft. There have, however, been incidents where qualified pilots travelling as passengers or flight attendants on commercial flights have taken the co-pilot's seat to assist the pilot. [1] In August 2000, the pilot of a single-engine Piper Cherokee Six collapsed over the ...
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 aircraft was stolen from Plane Cargo 1 at the north end of Sea–Tac Airport [6] and maneuvered to runway 16C via taxiways. [4] Seattle Tower tried several times to get the pilot of the aircraft to identify himself but received no response. [4]
A passenger who safely landed a single-engine plane after the pilot ... a single-engine plane after the pilot passed out said he did not have time to panic because he knew it was a "life-or-death
A passenger was able to take control of the single-engine plane, and managed to make an emergency landing at Raleigh Durham International Airport, according to WRAL. It is unclear what caused the ...
The Turkish Airlines flight landed safely around 6 a.m. after one of the pilots suffered a medical emergency, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement to NBC News.
RED Air Flight 203 caught fire at Miami International Airport after landing due to landing gear collapsing, causing a runway excursion. Three minor injuries happened among the 140 passengers and crew on board. On February 9, 2024, Hop-A-Jet Flight 823 was a flight carrying 5 people from Ohio State University Airport to Naples Airport in Florida ...
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...