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The aircraft experienced a mid-air collision with a Cessna 172, killing both occupants of the Cessna, while there were no injuries aboard the commercial flight and it made a successful landing in spite of loss of its right horizontal stabilizer. January 25, 1990 73 85 85 Avianca Flight 52: Cove Neck: New York: Boeing 707-320B
In aviation, a preflight checklist is a list of tasks that should be performed by pilots and aircrew prior to takeoff. Its purpose is to improve flight safety by ensuring that no important tasks are forgotten. Failure to correctly conduct a preflight check using a checklist is a major contributing factor to aircraft accidents. [1]
Many of the steps in the pre-landing checklist are double-checks to eliminate the possibility of unexpected failure of the aircraft. Other steps convert the aircraft from a configuration that is optimised for economical flight to one that is safe for landing.
The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is an American four-seat, single-engine, high wing, fixed-wing aircraft made by the Cessna Aircraft Company. [2] First flown in 1955, [2] more 172s have been built than any other aircraft. [3] It was developed from the 1948 Cessna 170 but with tricycle landing gear rather than conventional landing gear.
Cessna never offered a civil model directly analogous to these aircraft, but Cessna licensee Reims Aviation in France sold similar IO-360-powered models as the R172 Rocket and Hawk XP. [10] T-41A United States Air Force version of the Cessna 172F, 172G, and 172H for undergraduate pilot training, powered by 145 hp Continental O-300.
IFR in between cloud layers in a Cessna 172. In aviation, instrument flight rules (IFR) is one of two sets of regulations governing all aspects of civil aviation aircraft operations; the other is visual flight rules (VFR).
CIGAR or CIGARS is a mnemonic that refers to a pre-takeoff checklist performed by general aviation pilots. The mnemonic stands for: [1] Controls; Instruments; Gas; Airplane secure; Run-up. Alternately: [2] Controls; Instruments; Gas; Attitude; Run-up; Yet another version was used by the U.S. Air Force: [3] CIGarettes For The Poor Russian ...
January 5 – A Cessna 172 stolen and flown by a teenager crashed into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. April 18 – A Rockwell Commander A112 crashed into the Pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy. July 10 – A Sikorsky H-34 crashed and sank into the Brookville Reservoir in Brookville, Indiana. The pilot Steve Myler ...