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Martinair Flight 495 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operated by Dutch airline Martinair, that crash-landed in severe weather conditions at Faro Airport, Portugal on 21 December 1992.
Joan Elms – known as “Sexy Sally” to the flight crews of the Convair B-58 Hustler on the plane's magnetic tape-based warning system. [10] Erica Lane – her voice can be heard in the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon and Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter. [2] Sue Milne – her voice is used in the Eurofighter Typhoon. [11] [12]
A "Cockpit Sound Recorder" (CSR) was independently invented and patented by Edmund A. Boniface Jr., an aeronautical engineer at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. [16] [17] [18] He originally filed with the US Patent Office on February 2, 1961, as an "Aircraft Cockpit Sound Recorder". [19] The 1961 invention was viewed by some as an "invasion of ...
At 15:57:55, the normal acceleration increased to over 3.0 G, the sound of the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) alert was recorded on the CVR, and the captain's nose-up control column force again exceeded 22 pounds. Approximately 1.7 seconds later, as the altitude decreased through 1,700 feet (518 m), the first officer made an expletive ...
A ground proximity warning system (GPWS) is a system designed to alert pilots if their aircraft is in immediate danger of flying into the ground or an obstacle. The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) defines GPWS as a type of terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS). [ 1 ]
An annunciator panel, also known in some aircraft as the Centralized Warning Panel (CWP) or Caution Advisory Panel (CAP), is a group of lights used as a central indicator of status of equipment or systems in an aircraft, industrial process, building or other installation. Usually, the annunciator panel includes a main warning lamp or audible ...
The plane crashed in a field just off I-25 near Larkspur, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Denver, after it apparently hit a sign on the highway, causing it to veer off to the east, the ...
A long-range acoustic device (LRAD), acoustic hailing device (AHD) or sound cannon is a specialized loudspeaker that produces sound at high power for communicating at a distance. It has been used as a method of crowd control , which has caused permanent hearing damage , having an extremely high decibel capacity (up to 160 dB measured at one ...