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The second X-48B was modified into the X-48C starting in 2010 for further flight tests. [19] The X-48C has its vertical stabilizers moved inboard on either side of the engines, and its fuselage extended aft, both to reduce the aircraft's noise profile; it was to be powered by two JetCat turbines, each producing 80 pounds-force (360 N) of thrust.
The Korangi Creek crash took place on 27 December 1947 when an Air India flight from Karachi to Bombay crashed shortly after takeoff. All 19 passengers and 4 crew members were killed. [1] Poor visibility and malfunctioning instruments in the cockpit led the pilots to lose control. [2] The Douglas C-48 aircraft was damaged beyond repair. [3]
All 67 people aboard the two aircraft were killed in the crash (64 on the airliner, 3 on the helicopter). It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 25 years. [6] [7]
See Graham Hill plane crash. Hit trees when coming in to land due to fog. [56] James DeWitt Hill: United States 1927 Aviator Old Glory: North Atlantic Aircraft crashed during an attempt at a transatlantic flight from the United States to Italy. Ployer Peter Hill: United States 1935 Test pilot Boeing Model 299: Wright Field, Ohio
A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON/Star-Telegram There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than ...
South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok ordered an emergency inspection of the country’s Boeing 737-800s, the type of plane used on the the fatal Jeju Air Flight 7C2216.
The NTSB's preliminary report offers no insights into a possible cause of the airplane crash that killed 2 on Oct. 31. ... the witness said the plane's engine then cut out and the aircraft went ...
English: The X-48C Hybrid Wing Body aircraft flies over Rogers Dry Lake on Feb. 28, 2013, from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Calif. The long boom protruding from between the tails is part of the aircraft's parachute-deployment flight termination system.