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November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
An Uninterruptible Autopilot is a proposed system designed to take control of a commercial aircraft away from the pilot or flight crew in the event of a hijacking.. If implemented, the system would allow the craft to automatically guide itself to a landing at a designated airstrip. [1]
Over 1,200 Delta Air Lines flights were canceled on July 19. [ 7 ] [ 15 ] Thousands of stranded travelers were forced to spend the night at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport , Delta's largest hub and the busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic . [ 15 ]
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW ...
Delta Air Lines Flight 79: Fifteen minutes after takeoff from Berlin on April 10, 2010, Bert Niepel, 51, of Berlin, decided to sit in first class despite having an economy-class ticket, believing he deserved an upgrade. He refused repeated requests from crew to move back to his assigned seat, and eventually assaulted a flight attendant.
Delta Air Lines Flight 523: 3 (hijacker, co-pilot, police officer) Samuel Byck intended to crash into the White House in the hope of killing U.S. President Richard Nixon. He killed a police officer and hijacked the aircraft, but the aircraft never left the gate. Byck shot the co-pilot before being wounded by police in a shootout and committing ...
Allen served as the president, chairman and chief executive officer of Delta Air Lines from 1987 to 1997, [4] and as the chairman and chief executive officer of Aaron's, Inc. from 2012 to 2014. [3] Allen has been a director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1991, Aircastle since 2006, and Forward Air Corporation since 2014.
A Royal Australian Air Force aircraftswoman demonstrating the use of an oxygen mask during a pre-flight safety demonstration on board an Australian Airbus A330 MRTT. A pre-flight safety briefing (also known as a pre-flight demonstration, in-flight safety briefing, in-flight safety demonstration, safety instructions, or simply the safety video) is a detailed explanation given before take-off to ...