Posts Categorized: Aircraft
Navy Jet Crash Update
THE NAVY F/A-18 JET FIGHTER that crashed into a Virginia Beach, Virginia, apartment complex Friday afternoon caused extensive damage to at least five buildings but, amazingly, there have been no deaths reported so far.
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Thousands of United passengers have disrupted flights this weekend due to a computer mis-migration
weekend migration of United and Continental computer systems creates significant airline travel disruption
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Air Ambulance vs. Duck in Tennessee
A VANDERBILT (Tennessee) MEDICAL CENTER LIFEFLIGHT air ambulance had its own version of a "close call" Friday night when its flight path crossed that of a Mallard duck's.
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Morning Lineup – February 11
Two months ago in December the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) has given approval for major commercial airlines to issue single-purpose iPads to their pilots....
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Who Ya’ Gonna Call?
A FIREFIGHTER AT TIRUPATI AIRPORT in India had a quick job description ammendment last month when the two air traffic controllers failed to show up for work.
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Morning Lineup – February 5
Can we land or not?
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This Month’s Most Reluctant Patient
A DAY-LABORER HAD TO BE FORCIBLY restrained before continuing his journey to the emergency room this past Saturday evening.
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Updated: Eleven Dead as Burning Hot-Air Balloon Plunges to Earth
All Victims Were in the Passenger Basket
Update: Investigators have pieced together the sequence of events. Scroll down.
A HOT AIR BALLOON CARRYING A PILOT AND TEN PASSENGERS caught on fire while airborne and plummeted to the ground killi…
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Planes Down in New Jersey and Texas
TWO LIGHT PLANES HAVE CRASHED In the past 24 hours killing all passengers on both aircraft, one in northern New Jersey and the other in Brazos County, Texas.
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$2 Million Fire at Country Airport
Airport Employees Save Some Planes
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Updated – Plane Crashes Into Superstition Mountain
The emergency alert was transmitted shortly after 6:30 pm Mountain time Wednesday evening after a twin-engine private aircraft flew at full speed into the side of Superstition Mountain in northern Arizona.
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Christmas “Miracle” in New Zealand
A NEW ZEALAND HELICOPTER PILOT will be going to church for sure this Sunday.
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Air Tanker Crash in France
Pilot Escapes Serious Injury
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Ultra-Light Plane Crashes Into Ferris Wheel
AN ULTRA-LIGHT AIRCRAFT CRASHED INTO AN OPERATING Ferris Wheel Saturday afternoon near Sydney, Australia.
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Confusing Cockpit Controls Put 737 Into a Roll
HOW WELL DO YOU TRUST YOUR FLIGHT CREW?
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Another Stunt Plane Crash
A T-28 AEROBATIC PLANE CRASHED Saturday afternoon during an air show at Martinsburg, West Virginia.
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Flight Day, Fight Night and the search for Lodging
What was to be a quick dawn-to-redeye overnighter becomes a destination crap shoot.
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P51 crash at Reno Air Races, MCI with multiple fatalities, update
A World War II P-51 crashes at the National Championship Air Races in Nevada
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Russian Plane Crash Wipes Out Entire Hockey Team
The plane was carrying the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team which was one to the top teams in the KHL, the country's premier professional hockey league.
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Light Plane Crash Triggers Grass Fire
A LIGHT PLANE CRASHED SUNDAY MORNING near Tehachapi, California, killing the pilot and starting a destructive grass fire.
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What San Francisco “Hoseman Number 2″ taught Bob Lutz
The lieutenants and captains in the squadron were shocked: the Marine Corps was giving us an uneducated, elderly fireman as a leader.
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Plane Potty Arsonist Extradited From Mexico After 3 Yrs. On the Run
EDER ROJAS, NOW AGE 22, has been arrested in Mexico and returned to the U. S. three years after he failed to appear for his trial for setting fire inside an airplane.
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Air Tankers – New and Used
Firefighting planes have their ups and downs, too.
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Goodyear Blimp Burns, Crashes – Hero Pilot Perishes
Mid-Air Fire Leads to Fatal Plummet
Update, Tuesday morning: Additional video added. Scroll down.
ONE OF THE EUROPEAN-BASED GOODYEAR blimps caught fire in mid-air while traveling across southern Germany Sunday evening.
The blazing airshi…
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Shock … followed by purposeful action