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The water temperature near the crash site was recorded at 35 °F (2 °C). [13] Several commercial yachts from CityCruise sailed from Washington Sailing Marina to assist in the search and rescue operations. [13] Officials said that they were confident they would be able to recover all bodies from the aircraft.
The Raytheon Sentinel is a retired airborne battlefield and ground surveillance aircraft formerly operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). While based on the Bombardier Global Express ultra long-range business jet, the prime contractor for the Sentinel was the American defence firm Raytheon, which supplied most of the mission systems and performed the integration work.
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 ...
The crash occurs in a storm 60 miles SW of San Diego at 0226 hrs., as one aircraft flies to relieve the other, which had been airborne for seven hours. Search-and-rescue workers discover wreckage from the downed aircraft but all 27 crewmen are lost, 13 on one and 14 on the other.
A search team investigating the deadly crash of a U.S. military aircraft in the sea off Japan last week has found wreckage and the remains of five missing crew members, the Air Force said Monday ...
The plane, an ATR-72 turboprop, was bound for Sao Paulo from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, and crashed around 1:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) in Vinhedo, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo.
The collision resulted in the tail of the much smaller Endeavor plane being nearly sliced from the body of the plane. The DeltaA350, the largest plane in Delta's fleet, suffered damage to its wing.
The aircraft crashed into automobile traffic, killing a 6-year-old boy in a car. [85] TWA Flight 529 crashed on takeoff from Chicago Midway International Airport on September 1, 1961, killing all 78 people on board. A bolt had fallen out of the elevator system, resulting in an abrupt pitch up and stall.