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November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed upon landing in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on August 2, 1985, due to a powerful weather event known as a microburst. [173] Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashed after takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth Airport on August 31, 1988. The NTSB determined that the flight crew had failed to deploy the plane's ...
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW ...
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The Denver-bound Delta flight took off from JFK just before 8 a.m. but made a quick loop back to the runway after a bird got sucked into its engine at about 500 feet altitude, according to the ...
A Delta Air Lines jet landed with its nose gear retracted after pilots reported an issue on Wednesday. All aboard were evacuated safely. Delta plane lands without nose gear, all passengers and ...
The most common cause of engine shutdown is fuel exhaustion or fuel starvation, but there have been other cases in aviation history of multiple engine failure due to bird strikes, flying through volcano ash, ingesting debris, and various forms of damage due to water (hail, ice or overwhelming rain).
Flight 318's crew acknowledged the message, however the crew never altered the plane's course to avoid the thunderstorm. [1] Flight 318 entered the storm at an altitude of 2,500 ft (762 m) and was immediately met with lightning, hail, heavy rain, high winds and severe turbulence. A strong downdraft eventually forced the plane to the ground ...