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The crash occurred between 9:03 [44] and 9:07 a.m. [45] as the aircraft belly landed, [46] [47] touching down 1,200 m (3,900 ft) along the runway. [12] It overshot, [46] [47] with video footage showing the aircraft sliding down the runway on the engine nacelles with a sustained nose-high attitude. [48]
The pilot-in-command was 40-year-old Captain Mohammad Tarmizi Muda, [3] he was a former military pilot, and had a total of 3,947 flight hours, 783 were on the Dornier 228; [1]: 7 The pilot-monitoring was 29-year-old First Officer Wong Lein Yee, [3] with 1,120 total flight hours, he had 22 hours of experience on the Dornier 228.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia from Surabaya, Java, Indonesia, to Singapore.On 28 December 2014, the Airbus A320 flying the route crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 people on board.
Families of the 179 people killed in the Jeju Air disaster have been camping out at the airport as they demand answers over the deadliest crash in South Korea’s history.. Hundreds of family ...
As there were no gaps in between, the pilots were forced to fly into the cloud. But without any visual reference, the plane lost altitude and impacted terrain. All 18 people were killed. 3 December: a Merpati Nusantara CASA C-212 Aviocar passenger plane sustained substantial damage in a landing accident at Larat-Watidar Airport. There were ...
Varig Flight 254 was a Boeing 737-241, c/n 21006/398, [2] registration PP-VMK, [3] on a scheduled passenger flight from São Paulo, Brazil, to Belém, capital city of the state of Pará in the country's North Region, on 3 September 1989.
The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and ...
The aircraft was observed on radar descending towards 8,000 feet (2,400 m) at 04:01 and then erratically climbing and descending for the following nine minutes, reaching an altitude of almost 15,000 feet (4,600 m). In their last communications to ATC, the crew reported heavy vibrations and loss of flight controls. After a steep descent to 4,000 ...