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The use of ailerons also deployed spoilers on the "down" wing, which increased the aircraft's net drag and decreased its net lift. A second activation of the stick shaker stall warning resulted. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The relief pilots urged the flight crew to enter a shallow dive to gain airspeed and avoid a stall, [ 1 ] [ 3 ] but this soon brought the ...
When Flight 420 was near the runway threshold, the severely damaged left wing failed. The aircraft then rotated 90 degrees to the left: fuel spilled from the aircraft and ignited. The aircraft spiralled and crashed, coming to rest on the left side of Runway 24. Both crew members and all nine passengers on board died.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
The MD-82's rate of climb was greatly reduced as a result of the flaps not being extended, [1]: 67 and about 2,760 ft (840 m) past the end of runway 3C, the plane's left wing struck a light pole in an airport rental car lot. [1]: 22 The impact caused the left wing to start disintegrating and catch fire.
Faulty repair after same plane suffered a tailstrike: the rear bulkhead failed which caused the tail fin to fall off and rupture all four hydraulic systems. The crash remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history. 1987-11-28 South African Airways Flight 295: Indian Ocean, 134 nautical miles (248 km) north-east of Mauritius,
While officials have not said how many people died or were injured, the crash has already taken an emotional toll on the local communities. 'Feel a heavy heart for them': Residents left stunned ...
The 1993 film Fearless portrayed a fictional plane crash based in part on the crash of Flight 232. In 2016, The House Theatre of Chicago produced United Flight 232 . The play was a new work directed and adapted by Vanessa Stalling and based on the book Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales.
Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover in Athens, Greece.Shortly after take-off on 14 August 2005, Nicosia air traffic control (ATC) lost contact with the pilots operating the flight, named Olympia; it eventually crashed near Grammatiko, Greece, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board.