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On 28 July 2010, Airblue Flight 202, an Airbus A321-231 registered as AP-BJB, crashed in the Margalla Hills, Islamabad, Pakistan. The weather was poor with low visibility. During a non-standard self-created approach below the minimum descent altitude, the aircraft crashed into the ground after the captain ignored 21 cockpit warnings to pull-up.
The side-stick is used in many modern military fighter aircraft, such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, Mitsubishi F-2, Dassault Rafale, and F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning 2, Chengdu J-20, AIDC F-CK 1 Ching-Kuo and also on civil aircraft, such as the Sukhoi Superjet 100, Airbus A320 and all subsequent Airbus aircraft, [2] including the largest passenger jet in service, the Airbus A380.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
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.
There were 169 passengers and 6 crew members aboard the plane, [7] as well as 1 maintenance engineer. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] Most passengers were travelling for the Lunar New Year holidays. The passengers also included 22 foreign nationals, including 18 Chinese, 2 Americans, 1 British and 1 Filipino.
1 killed, 3 injured after cargo plane crashes into home. The plane, a Boeing 737-400, crashed while approaching Vilnius Airport to land, a spokesperson for Lithuania's National Crisis Management ...
Boeing and Airbus, the two biggest commercial airline makers, may have used titanium sold using fake documents, according to evidence from a supplier that has triggered a Federal Aviation ...
The aircraft, serial number MSN023, [5] was on its first pre-delivery test flight and was scheduled to be the third A400M to be delivered to the Turkish Air Force. [1] [2] The delivery was scheduled for June 2015. [6] The aircraft was being flown by an Airbus Defence and Space test crew [4] [7] [8] and used the callsign CASA423. [9]