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Two pilots were killed when their planes crashed upon landing at an air racing event Sunday in Reno, authorities said. Officials with the Reno Air Racing Association said the planes collided at ...
Reno–Tahoe International was the hub of Reno Air, a now-defunct airline that flew MD-80s and MD-90s to many cities until it was bought by American Airlines and later disposed of, in 2001. Reno Air's first flight was on July 1, 1992, and its last flight was August 30, 1999.
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On his first space flight, Gibson was the pilot on the crew of STS 41-B which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on February 3, 1984. The flight accomplished the deployment of two Hughes 376 communications satellites which later failed to reach desired geosynchronous orbits due to upper-stage rocket failures.
All 12 on board Flight 28 were killed; both army pilots survived. [25] An Arrow Air DC-3 crashed as it flew into terrain on approach to Sacramento, killing all 9 on board. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed upon landing at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013. Of the 307 people aboard, three were killed and 181 injured.
The fire was burning near a landing strip for a remote-controlled airplanes. People look on, as the Airport Fire burns in the hills of Orange County, California, on September 9. - Mike Blake/Reuters
Reno Stead Airport Tower and Operations center View of Reno Stead Airport The location was opened by the United States Army Air Forces in 1942, in the middle of World War 2 . Stead Air Force Base was established by the United States Air Force (USAF) at the airfield in 1951, when it was determined that the Sierra Nevada and nearby forests would ...
A JetBlue flight was forced to make a rapid emergency landing in Kansas — leaving some passengers in tears — Saturday evening after pilots were alerted to possible smoke in the cargo hold ...