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The flight leader should decide and communicate which orientation, fingertip right or fingertip left, should be used as the basic formation prior to flight operations. Formations should transition to and from the basic formation to facilitate the use of hand and plane signals. [11]: 17
The formation consists of a flight of four aircraft, consisting of a "lead element" and a "second element", each of two aircraft. When viewing the formation from above, the positions of the planes resemble the tips of the four fingers of a human right hand (without the thumb), giving the formation its name.
On some occasions, military aircraft conducting training flights inadvertently collide with civilian aircraft. The 1958 collision between United Air Lines Flight 736 and a fighter jet, and another U.S. military/civilian crash one month later involving Capital Airlines Flight 300, hastened the signing of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 into law.
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.
Her flight was ultimately delayed three hours after JetBlue found another plane for the passengers. The FAA and the different airlines are investigating the two collisions. Show comments
Continental Airlines Flight 712 / Private Flight 3,950 ft (1,200 m) Compton, California, United States 1972: June 29: 13: 0 North Central Airlines Flight 290 / Air Wisconsin Flight 671: Cruise Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, United States 1972: July 29: 38: 0 Avianca Flight 626 / Another Avianca Flight [4] [5] Cruise Near Las Palomas, Colombia 1973 ...
️ GRAPHIC VIDEO: A mid-air collision involving two planes near the Dallas Executive Airport, today. The accident took place during the Wings Over Dallas WWII Airshow at 1:25 p.m., according to ...
Engine 2 of TAP Air Portugal Flight 1492, an Airbus A320-251N, struck a motorcycle that crossed the runway at Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport during the plane’s landing roll. Both riders on the motorcycle perished, however everyone on board the plane were unharmed. Engine 2 of the plane was damaged from the collision. [34]