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On 14 September 1999, SX-ECH was scheduled to depart Ellinikon International Airport in Athens at 18:00 UTC [a] to arrive in Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest at 19:18 as OAL 3838, using the Olympic Airways ICAO airline code and the Olympic Airways call sign. Pre-flight checklists started at 16:50 and the passengers ...
A General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon, 91-0354, of the 77th Fighter Squadron, being relocated from Shaw AFB, South Carolina, to Eglin AFB, Florida, to avoid Hurricane Bertha, crashes at ≈1530 hrs. into a neighborhood 20 miles N of Pensacola, Florida, following an engine failure, striking two homes and killing a four-year-old boy. A man and ...
A US Marine Corps CH-53D Sea Stallion lost tail rotor authority on approach to MCAS Futenma on the island of Okinawa. This was due to improper maintenance. The failure to install a cotter pin resulted in vibrations forcing loose a bolt, thus causing separation of the tail boom from the aircraft. The aircraft proceeded to spin out of control ...
The GE27 was developed in the early 1980s under the "Modern Technology Demonstrator Engines" (MTDE) program sponsored by the United States Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate. [2] Sporting a 22:1 pressure ratio, which was a record for single-spool compressors at the time, the GE27 [ 3 ] was GE's unsuccessful submission to power the ...
January 19 – An F-16C Fighting Falcon (Serial Number 87-0228) was shot down by a 2K12 Kub (SA-6) surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Captain Harry 'Mike' Roberts, was captured. He was released on March 6. January 19 – An F-16C Fighting Falcon (Serial Number 87-0257) was shot down by an S-125 (SA-3) surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Major ...
Struck terrain nose-down after apparent engine trouble during a gear-up landing attempt Hans Alsér: Sweden 1977 Table tennis player Linjeflyg Flight 618: Kälvesta, Sweden Icing of tailplane caused by engines being operated at too low a power setting for anti-ice to be effective Roald Amundsen: Norway 1928 Explorer Latham 47: Barents Sea ...
First-generation American subcompacts, left to right: AMC Gremlin, Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Vega. American automakers had first countered imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle with compact cars including the Ford Falcon, Ford Maverick, Chevrolet Corvair and Plymouth Valiant, although these cars featured six-cylinder engines and comprised a larger vehicle class.
Spacecraft was unable to reach Wilson–Harrington due to ion engine operation being suspended while a problem with the probe's star tracker was investigated. [10] Braille flyby added to mission following loss of ability to reach Wilson–Harrington. Closest approach 28.3 kilometres (17.6 mi) at 04:46 UTC [10] on 29 July 1999. Intended to pass ...