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Around 20:29, the flight crew took their seats. At roughly 20:32 EDT, Flight 255 departed the gate in Detroit with 149 passengers (including 21 children) and six crew members. [1]: 1 The crew read out the before-start checklist, and started the engines at 20:33:04. The total weight of the airliner was 144,046 pounds (65,338 kg) with a maximum ...
The wrecked Renault R28 car driven by Nelson Piquet Jr. at the centre of the controversy. The Renault Formula One crash controversy, dubbed as "Crashgate" by some in the media, [1] [2] was a sporting scandal caused when Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. deliberately crashed during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix to give a sporting advantage to his Renault teammate, Fernando Alonso.
"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time. [1]
[2]: 96–97 These simulations indicated that after the loss of the forward fuselage the remainder of the aircraft continued in crippled flight, then pitched up while rolling to the left (north), [2]: 263 climbing to a maximum altitude between 15,537 and 16,678 feet (4,736 and 5,083 m) [2]: 97 from its last recorded altitude, 13,760 feet (4,190 m).
[2] At 200–300 feet (61–91 m) above ground level, the right wing stalled. The nose pitched down as the wings rolled toward 90 degrees and at 16:56, the aircraft struck level terrain 1,400 feet (470 yd; 430 m) from the end of the runway. [1] The plane was destroyed by the impact and post-crash fire and none of its cargo was salvaged.
State and local officials say the Federal Highway Administration has approved plans for a new crash gate for emergency vehicles on I-84.
Matt Cooper has no illusions about the hazards of diving from a 27-meter platform — about 90 feet, or as high as a nine-story building — into the sea, a lake, or a diving tank. “Even if it ...
The aircraft operating the flight was a Hawker 800 registered as N818MV and manufactured in 1991. East Coast Jets began operating it in June 2003. [1]: 8 The captain was 40-year-old Clark Jon Keefer, a former flight instructor who had been with East Coast Jets since 2005. [2]