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Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 was a regularly scheduled flight departing Boston for Baltimore, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and St. Louis.Captain James Elrod (47) and First Officer William Heckendorn (26) were at the controls.
Anti-collision lights, also called beacon lights or strobe lights, are a set of lights required on every aircraft to improve visibility to others, as well as collision avoidance measures by warning other pilots. [1] Historically they have used incandescent light bulbs, but recently LED lamps have been used.
For 1968, Cessna planned to replace the 172 with a newly designed aircraft called the 172J, featuring the same general configuration but with a more sloping windshield, a strutless cantilever wing, a more stylish interior, and various other improvements. A single 172J prototype, registered N3765C (c/n 660), was built.
Landing lights are lights, mounted on aircraft, that illuminate the terrain and runway ahead during takeoff and landing, as well as being used as a collision avoidance measure against other aircraft and bird strikes. Landing lights must be activated when the aircraft is under 10,000 feet in altitude. Landing light on a Cessna 172N
In 1981, the FAA decided to implement the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), which was developed based on industry and agency efforts in the field of beacon-based collision avoidance systems and air-to-air discrete address communication techniques that used Mode S airborne transponder message formats. [3]
Exclusive: This cockpit recording of Braniff Flight 352, which crashed on approach to Dallas, hasn’t been heard by the public in more than 50 years.
Two people are dead and another is injured after a Civil Air Patrol plane crashed Saturday in northern Colorado. The Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, said the aircraft -- a ...
The Cessna pilot replied, "Six nine golf roger." [3] A few seconds later at 5:57 p.m., a tower controller called Ozark 965 again with a second traffic advisory, saying "that Cessna off to your right looks like he's eastbound." All three pilots looked to their right and spotted Cessna N8669G directly abeam the DC-9 cockpit. The captain attempted ...