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After gliding for five minutes, one shut-down engine was successfully restarted. Aircraft made emergency landing at Miami International Airport; the sole running engine could not generate enough thrust to taxi aircraft to gate. 0: 172 23 July 1983 Air Canada Flight 143 ("Gimli Glider") Boeing 767-233 Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 was a charter flight by the United States Army to transport new recruits to Columbia, South Carolina for training. [3] [4] On November 8, 1961, the aircraft crashed as it attempted to land at Byrd Field, near Richmond, Virginia.
On January 29, 2025, a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter collided mid-air with American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle), [a] a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner, over the Potomac River, about half a mile (800 m) short of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
While on approach to Richmond International Airport, at an altitude of about 5,000 feet (1,500 m) MSL, the captain felt a brief "kick" or "bump" on the right rudder pedal. [1]: 51 Around the same time, a flight attendant at the rear of the plane heard a thumping noise underneath her.
A C-130H Hercules transport plane, 74–2064, was engaged in a logistics mission out of Adana-Incirlik Air Base to several U.S. military installations in Turkey. The aircraft was returning to Adana when an explosion occurred in a left wing fuel tank. At the time, the aircraft was descending through 5000 feet to 3000 feet.
Australian Gliding Museum, Bacchus Marsh [5] Australian National Aviation Museum, Melbourne; B-24 Liberator Memorial Australia, Werribee [6] Ballarat Aviation Museum, Ballarat; Derelict Aircraft Museum, Launching Place – closed; Drage Aviation Museum, Wangaratta; Friends of the Anson Air Museum, Ballarat; Latrobe Flying Museum, Traralgon ...
The bird made a hole in the plane's radiator, forcing a gear-up landing near Brussels. [1] A Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning, 42-13400, c/n 222-7834, [2] crash-landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians, 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska, on a training mission; the pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert Nesmith, was uninjured.
As with sustained flight, gliding generally requires the application of an airfoil, such as the wings on aircraft or birds, or the gliding membrane of a gliding possum. However, gliding can be achieved with a flat ( uncambered ) wing, as with a simple paper plane , [ 2 ] or even with card-throwing .