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Emirates Flight 407 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Emirates from Auckland to Dubai with a stopover in Melbourne, operated by an Airbus A340-500 aircraft. On 20 March 2009, the flight failed to take off properly at Melbourne Airport , hitting several structures at the end of the runway before climbing and then ...
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 ...
Emirates Flight 407; J. Japan Air Lines Flight 123; M. Middle East Airlines Flight 304; T. Tenerife airport disaster; Turkish Airlines Flight 1878 This page was ...
Emirates Flight 407, an Airbus A340-500, registration A6-ERG, suffers a tailstrike during its take-off run at Melbourne Airport, Australia. Although take off is achieved, the aircraft overruns the end of the runway and destroys some 200 metres (220 yd) of strobe lights on the ground.
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Rescuers at the crash site of Kam Air Flight 904. The tail of the plane is on the right. 19 March 1998 - An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727-228 crashes into a mountain, killing all 45 aboard. Kam Air Flight 904 crashed in the Pamir Mountains during a snow storm on 3 February 2005. All 105 people on board were killed, and the cause remains ...
On 20 March 2009, Emirates Flight 407, an Airbus A340-500, was taking off from Melbourne Airport on Runway 16 for a flight to Dubai International Airport and failed to become airborne in the normal distance. When the aircraft was nearing the end of the runway, the crew commanded nose-up sharply, causing its tail to scrape along the runway as it ...
The wreckage of the tail section of Metrojet Flight 9268. On 31 October 2015, Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus A321-231 registered as EI-ETJ operated by Russian airline company Kogalymavia and branded as Metrojet, crashed in the Hasana area of central Sinai, Egypt while en route from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to St. Petersburg, Russia. There were ...