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On January 7, 2013, a battery overheated and started a fire in an empty 787 operated by Japan Airlines (JAL) at Boston's Logan International Airport. [4] [5] On January 9, United Airlines reported a problem in one of its six 787s. The wiring was located in the same area as where the battery fire occurred on JAL's airliner; subsequently, the U.S ...
After being hijacked by five Al-Qaeda terrorists it was deliberately crashed into the South Tower of World Trade Center, resulting in the deaths of all 65 people on board including the five hijackers, as well as an estimated 614 people in the South Tower when it subsequently collapsed as a result of the crash. Thousands of people on the ground ...
Pieces of wreckage from the American Airlines flight that crashed into a helicopter above the Potomac River have been removed from the water.. On Monday, crews from the U.S. Army Corps of ...
The water temperature near the crash site was recorded at 35 °F (2 °C). On January 30, the rescue operation turned into a recovery mission. [ 53 ] By February 4, all bodies had been recovered, including the three soldiers in the helicopter, and all of them were identified by February 5.
Investigators at the crash site made headway in their probe of the collision of an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk. Video showed cranes lifting large pieces of wreckage out of ...
The jet then crashed near the airport, killing all 127 passengers and 5 crew. The bodies of the occupants were so severely fragmented that the crash site was initially declared a biohazard by the NTSB. Both this and United Airlines Flight 585 crashes were traced to a malfunction in the planes' rudder controls.
The plane, an ATR-72 turboprop, was bound for Sao Paulo from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, and crashed around 1:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) in Vinhedo, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo.
In aviation safety, parts departing aircraft or parts detached from aeroplanes (PDA), also known as objects falling off airplanes (OFA), things falling off aircraft (TFOA), and other analogous variations, can range from small fasteners like screws and rivets up to major sub-assemblies like hatch covers and doors. [1]