Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The plane was estimated to have crashed slightly faster than the speed of sound, around 770 mph (670 kn; 340 m/s; 1,240 km/h), disintegrating instantly. Based on the deformation of the titanium black box data recorder case, the aircraft experienced a deceleration of 5,000 g (49,000 m/s/s) when it hit the ground. It was traveling around a 70 ...
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 was a Fairchild F27A Friendship airliner that crashed on May 7, 1964, near Danville, California, a suburb east of Oakland. [1] [2] The crash was most likely the first instance in the United States of an airliner's pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a murder–suicide.
On December 8, 2008 Lt Neubauer was piloting an F/A-18D-30-MC Hornet (Lot 12), BuNo 164017, [4] [5] [6] [3] from VMFAT-101, based at MCAS Miramar.Along with several other VMFAT-101 aircraft, he was conducting day and night carrier qualifications (catapult launches and tailhook arrested carrier landings) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln offshore 60 miles southwest of San Diego. [7]
The Canadian firefighting aircraft − a Super Scooper plane, Quebec 1 −was grounded Jan. 9 after being hit by the civilian drone flying over the fire near the Pacific Coast, the Federal ...
A private plane crash into a busy San Francisco Bay Area intersection killed one person, California firefighters reported. The crash, involving a single-engine Vans RV-6, took place at 10:30 a.m ...
A viral video shared on X purports to show a plane helping fight the recent fires in California catch fire, then crash. Verdict: False The video shows a plane catching fire and then crashing while ...
The plane dropped from about 31,500 ft (9,600 m) to between 23,000 and 24,000 ft (7,000 and 7,300 m) in around 80 seconds. Both pilots struggled together to regain control of the aircraft, and only by pulling with 130 to 140 lb (580 to 620 N) on the controls did the flight crew stop the 6,000 ft/min (1,800 m/min) descent of the aircraft and ...
A California man agrees to plead guilty to one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft after his drone collides with firefighting Super Scooper aircraft battling the Palisades Fire.