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While attempting to land on runway 24L at Toronto Pearson International Airport, Air France Flight 356, an Airbus A350-900, initiated a go-around and suffered a tailstrike. The aircraft circled round for a second attempt and landed on the same runway without further incident. No injuries were reported but the aircraft received significant damage.
In aviation, a tailstrike or tail strike occurs when the tail or empennage of an aircraft strikes the ground or other stationary object. This can happen with a fixed-wing aircraft with tricycle undercarriage , in both takeoff where the pilot rotates the nose up too rapidly, or in landing where the pilot raises the nose too sharply during final ...
Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) [b] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330.
Both aircraft were preparing to take off just after 10 a.m. when the wing of the larger plane, an Airbus A350 heading to Tokyo, struck the tail of a CRJ-900 jet heading to Lafayette, Louisiana ...
On 15 August 2015, American Airlines Flight 1851, an Airbus A321-231 registered as N564UW, suffered a loss of lift and hit the runway approach lights followed by a tail strike onto the runway surface while attempting to go-around at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after experiencing a small microburst on approach.
Air France Flight 406 exploded and shattered into pieces when a bomb was smuggled inside its cargo on 10 May 1961, killing all 78 on board. TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727-231, was hijacked shortly after takeoff on 14 June 1985. One person was killed. Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked on the ground at Algiers and flown to France on 24 December 1994.
After more than 60 flights at London Heathrow were cancelled on Sunday, some of the 10,000 passengers whose plans were wrecked face more problems.. A strike by French air-traffic control staff has ...
The JAL aircraft involved in the accident was an Airbus A350-941, [Note 2] operating as Flight 516, manufacturer serial number 538, and registered as JA13XJ. The aircraft was just over two years old at the time of the collision, first flying on 20 September 2021 and delivered to JAL on 10 November.