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On December 3, 1990, two Northwest Airlines jetliners collided at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Flight 1482, a scheduled Douglas DC-9-14 operating from Detroit to Pittsburgh International Airport, taxied by mistake onto an active runway in dense fog and was hit by a departing Boeing 727 operating as Flight 299 to Memphis International Airport.
The city began acquiring land for a buffer zone around the airport after the crash occurred. [15] In 2007, installation began on modified, short-length arrestor beds. One was completed at the end of Runway 31C by summer 2007. EMAS beds have also been installed at the end of Runways 04R, 13C, and 22L.
On 6 March 2021, Batik Air Flight 6803, an Airbus A320-214 registered as PK-LUT, had its nose gear rotated 90 degrees while taxiing at Jambi Airport and took off from the runway. The plane could not retract the landing gear after taking off from Jambi Airport and had to turn back. The plane landed with its nose gear still rotated 90 degrees.
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'The airport is temporarily closed while we take measures to assure adequate braking conditions have been established,' officials said on Twitter.
The view from one of the window seats of the plane shows flames shooting off the left wing as it scrapes along the runway as the plane makes a tilted landing. ... that the plane slid on the runway ...
[7] [17] [18] In 1988, complaints were registered because the city removed/discarded several families' memorial statuary without notification, replacing them with simple flat in-ground markers, stating that the statues posed a collision risk should an airplane go off the end of the runway. The city closed the segment of East McNichols (6 Mile ...
An air traffic controller can be heard calling for the jet to “stop, stop, stop” as the Delta flight takes off. Jetliner skids off runway and bursts into flames while landing in South Korea ...