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On 20 October 2007, Northwest Airlines Flight 1432, an Airbus A320-211, landed on runway 18 at Hector International Airport, North Dakota, with the nose gear rotated 90 degrees. [41] On 26 October 2007, Philippine Airlines Flight 475, an Airbus A320-214 registered as RP-C3224, overshot the runway in Bancasi Airport. Of the 154 people on board ...
For an Airbus A320, a landing speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) higher than normal can result in as much as a 25% increase in the runway length needed to stop an aircraft. Wet weather can also significantly reduce the braking performance of aircraft, leading to an increase in the minimum runway length requirement. [27]
1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision, a 1990 airport collision between a Boeing 727 and a McDonnell Douglas DC-9; 1991 Los Angeles runway collision, a 1991 airport collision between a Boeing 737 and a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner; 1994 St. Louis Airport collision, a 1994 airport collision between a MD-82 and a Cessna 441
United Airlines Flight 1382, an Airbus A320, aborted its takeoff from the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, Texas, due to a “reported engine issue” just after 8:30 a.m ...
At 11:46 p.m. local time, Air Canada Flight 759, carrying 135 passengers and 5 crew members, [4] was cleared to land on Runway 28R. The adjacent Runway 28L had been closed at 10 p.m. local time and its lights were off, [6] except for a 20.5-foot-wide (6.2 m) lighted flashing "X" at the eastern runway threshold. [7]
Last week, 10 people were killed in a plane crash near Nome, Alaska. Late last month, a Medevac jet crashed in Philadelphia , killing seven people and injuring more than 20 others.
Ural Airlines Flight 1383 was a scheduled flight from Sochi/Adler to Omsk in Russia. On 12 September 2023, the Airbus A320-214 operating the flight and carrying 159 passengers and 6 crew made an emergency landing in a field.
The last major fatal crash in the U.S. was in 2009 when a commuter plane en route from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, crashed just before landing. ... You might have heard news of "near ...