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Animated reconstruction of the crash by the Dutch Safety Board While on final approach for landing, the aircraft was about 2,000 ft (610 m) above ground, when the left-hand (captain's) radio altimeter suddenly changed from 1,950 feet (590 m) to read −8 feet (−2.4 m) altitude, although the right-hand (co-pilot's) radio altimeter functioned ...
1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash; 1953 Sabena Convair CV-240 crash; 1961 Bogoroditsk Il-18 incident; 1965 Hong Kong US Marines KC-130F Crash; 1970 Dominicana de Aviación DC-9 crash; 1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash; 1979 Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crash; 1983 TAMPA Colombia Boeing 707 crash; 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash; 2001 Omsk An-70 ...
18 August 1973 - Aeroflot Flight 13, an Antonov An-24B operated by Aeroflot crashes on takeoff due to engine failure, killing 56. 5 December 1995 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 – Shortly after taking off from Nakhchivan Airport, the Tupolev Tu-134's no. 1 engine failed. The pilots seemed to misread it as a failure on engine no 2.
The pilots believed this indicated a fault in the right engine, since earlier models of the 737 ventilated the cabin from the right, and they were unaware that the 737-400 used a different system. The pilots retarded the right thrust lever and the symptoms of smoke and vibration cleared, leading them to believe the problem had been identified ...
The Facebook post was shared five days later, on the same day two aftershocks of that earthquake – one a magnitude 5.2, the other a magnitude 5.1 – were reported near Yujing. Fact check: Viral ...
A Dallas Fire-Rescue engine crashed off an expressway bridge on Sunday and landed on a railway track below, injuring four firefighters, officials said. The crash happened just after 6 a.m. on the ...
English: The star indicates the location of the crash site of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951. The black strip was the intended runway for landing. The black strip was the intended runway for landing. Nederlands: De ster geeft de locatie van de crash van Turkish Airlines-vlucht 1951 aan.
Pan Am Flight 526A, a Douglas DC-4, took off from San Juan-Isla Grande Airport, Puerto Rico, at 12:11 PM AST on April 11, 1952 on a flight to Idlewild International Airport, New York City with 64 passengers and five crew members on board. [1] Due to inadequate maintenance, engine no. 3 failed after takeoff, followed shortly by engine no. 4. [2]