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  2. List of spacecraft intentionally crashed into ...

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    The crash landing sites themselves are of interest to space archeology. Luna 1 , not itself a lunar orbiter, was the first spacecraft designed as an impactor . It failed to hit the Moon in 1959, however, thus inadvertently becoming the first man-made object to leave geocentric orbit and enter a heliocentric orbit , where it remains.

  3. List of airline flights that required gliding - Wikipedia

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    This type of aircraft is capable of landing on unpaved surfaces, but landing gear, although extended, was not locked and thus collapsed. Aircraft hit trees, was destroyed; 130 people survived crash, including 27 who were injured. Four passengers died. [9] 4 134 28 December 1978 United Airlines Flight 173: Douglas DC-8: Portland, Oregon: Fuel ...

  4. Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 - Wikipedia

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    Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 was a Tupolev Tu-204-100 passenger jet that on 29 December 2012 crashed on landing at Moscow Vnukovo Airport, Russia, following a repositioning flight from Pardubice Airport, Czech Republic. There were no passengers on board, but 5 of the 8 crew members were killed when the aircraft hit a ditch and highway ...

  5. Crash Landing - Wikipedia

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    A crash landing (emergency landing) is an unplanned landing by an aircraft. Crash Landing may also refer to: Film and television.

  6. Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 - Wikipedia

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    On 27 December 1991, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 operating the flight, registration OY-KHO, piloted by Danish Captain Stefan G. Rasmussen (44) and Swedish first officer Ulf Cedermark (34), both experienced pilots with 8,000 and 3,000 flight hours, respectively, was forced to make an emergency landing in a field near Gottröra, Sweden.

  7. Flight with disabled controls - Wikipedia

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    Despite the damage, the crew was able to perform a crash landing on a mountain, with 50 of the 54 occupants surviving the crash. The captain survived the crash and escaped, but died trying to save a passenger who remained in the wreckage. The 707 made a successful emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

  8. Cathay Pacific Flight 780 - Wikipedia

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    On board were 309 passengers and a crew of 13. As Flight 780 neared Hong Kong, the crew were unable to change the thrust output of the engines. The aircraft, an Airbus A330-342, landed at almost twice the speed of a normal landing, and sustained minor damage. The 57 passengers who sustained injuries were hurt in the ensuing slide evacuation ...

  9. Lithobraking - Wikipedia

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    Lithobraking is a whimsical "crash landing" euphemism used by spacecraft engineers to refer to a spacecraft impacting the surface of a planet or moon. [1] [2] [3] The word was coined by analogy with "aerobraking", slowing a spacecraft by intersecting the atmosphere, with "lithos" (Ancient Greek: λίθος [líthos], "rock") [4] substituted to indicate the spacecraft is intersecting the planet ...