Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On April 9, 1990, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, collided head-on with a Civil Air Patrol Cessna 172, N99501, while en route from Gadsden Municipal Airport to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The Cessna crashed, killing two occupants, but the Brasilia made a safe emergency landing. [84]
When operation of an aircraft under VFR is not safe, because the visual cues outside the aircraft are obscured by weather, instrument flight rules must be used instead. IFR permits an aircraft to operate in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), which is essentially any weather condition less than VMC but in which aircraft can still ...
The aircraft experienced a mid-air collision with a Cessna 172, killing both occupants of the Cessna, while there were no injuries aboard the commercial flight and it made a successful landing in spite of loss of its right horizontal stabilizer. January 25, 1990 73 85 85 Avianca Flight 52: Cove Neck: New York: Boeing 707-320B
Two days later, disaster struck again when two planes — a Lancair and Cessna 172 — collided in mid-air near an Arizona airport without an air traffic control tower, killing two people.
In its most recent safety report, IATA, the trade association of the world’s airlines, called 2023 “an exceptionally safe year,” with a total of 30 accidents in the commercial aviation sector.
"Air travel is the safest form of travel in the country. So you can travel and feel good about it on American airplanes," said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy during a Feb. 3 interview on Fox ...
In rare circumstances, civilian motorists have initiated traffic breaks. In 2004, one Alameda County man ran a traffic break to aid in the emergency landing of a small Cessna 172 on Interstate 580. [2] When a single traffic break does not allow sufficient time to complete a task, multiple breaks may be conducted in series.
January 5 – A Cessna 172 stolen and flown by a teenager crashed into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. April 18 – A Rockwell Commander A112 crashed into the Pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy. July 10 – A Sikorsky H-34 crashed and sank into the Brookville Reservoir in Brookville, Indiana. The pilot Steve Myler ...