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N833NA, the Boeing 720 aircraft involved in the test. NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted a joint program for the acquisition, demonstration, and validation of technology for the improvement of transport aircraft occupant crash survivability using a large, four-engine, remotely piloted transport airplane in a controlled impact demonstration (CID).
The accident aircraft, an Avro 146-RJ100, with registration HB-IXM, manufactured in 1996, had its Maiden flight on 16 August, and logged more than 13,000 hours and 11,500 cycles in total before the crash. The airplane was delivered to Crossair on 23 August 1996. The aircraft was powered by four Lycoming LF507-1F turbofan engines. [2] [3]: 12
The crash was the result of the aircraft missing the last arresting cable, while ignoring a wave-off command. Two Grumman F-14 Tomcats struck and destroyed (BuNos. 161138 and 160385 ), three F-14s, nine LTV A-7 Corsair IIs , three S-3A Vikings , one Grumman A-6 Intruder and one Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King damaged. [ 44 ]
Here is a look at some recent fatal crashes in the U.S. and abroad involving vintage aircraft: — July 29, 2023: Four people died in two separate crashes related to a Wisconsin aircraft convention.
A radio-controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a small flying machine that is radio controlled by an operator on the ground using a hand-held radio transmitter. The transmitter continuously communicates with a receiver within the craft that sends signals to servomechanisms (servos) which move the control surfaces based on ...
The U.S. military grounded its fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft for months after the fatal crash, which happened during a routine training mission on Nov. 29 off Yakushima Island, about 1,040 km (650 ...
The crew keep the aircraft flying for 32 minutes until it clips Mount Takamagahara and crashes, killing all but four of the 524 people on board. The accident was caused by a faulty repair to the bulkhead after a much-earlier tailstrike incident.
The crash was the subject of a Discovery Channel television series Curiosity 2-hour episode "Plane Crash". [14] [15] The episode was aired on 7 October 2012, and narrated by Josh Charles. [15] [16] The 1-hour-35-minute episode "The Plane Crash" aired on Channel 4 in Britain on 11 October 2012.