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The aircraft was designed to be pressurized, and have remote-controlled retractable gun turrets with fourteen .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns. It was to have an estimated gross weight of 101,000 lb (46,000 kg). The first contract for two XB-32s was signed on 6 September 1940, the same day as the contract for the Boeing prototype XB-29.
He told a San Diego audience near NAA facilities, "I endorse wholeheartedly the B-70 manned aircraft." [50] Kennedy also made similar campaign claims regarding other aircraft: near the Seattle Boeing plant he affirmed the need for B-52s and in Fort Worth he praised the B-58. [51] XB-70A parked at Edwards Air Force Base in 1967
The crash of Flight 182 was preceded by a near-tragedy almost ten years earlier (also involving Pacific Southwest Airlines), when, on January 15, 1969, a PSA Boeing 727-214 (#N973PS) had collided with Cessna 182L (#N42242) on-ascent from San Francisco International Airport, bound for Ontario International Airport.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
The plane crashed in Mississippi, on a field in Lake Shady (today Lake Serene) about 2 mi (3 km) south of U.S. Route 98, leaving a crater 30 ft (10 m) deep and 75 ft (20 m) wide. After the crash, between 30 and 40 Air Force personnel were sent to investigate. They set up a temporary headquarters in the Oak Grove School auditorium.
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It predates the Boeing 737 Max, the type that was involved in two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed all 346 people on board those flights. The 737 Max was grounded for almost two years.
XB-19A at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base before scrapping. The new U.S. Air Force had plans to save the XB-19 for eventual display, but in 1949 the Air Force did not have a program to save historic aircraft and the Air Force Museum had not yet been built. [10] [11] The XB-19 was therefore scrapped, but two of its enormous main tires were saved. [c]