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The footage, which was posted on YouTube on October 4, has already been viewed over 200,000 times, and has racked up many comments commending the pilots on a job well done. Thankfully, the plane ...
Dramatic video shows the moment the pilot of a small plane made a “textbook” emergency landing on just one wheel. Footage from Tuesday afternoon shows the Cape Air Cessna 402C heading back to ...
The aircraft involved in the incident, a Boeing 737-3T0 (tail number N75356, serial number 23838, the 1,505th Boeing 737 manufactured), first flew on January 26, 1988. The airliner had been in service with TACA International Airlines for about two weeks after it was acquired from Polaris Aircraft Leasing in May 1988.
On the evening of Friday, February 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493, a Boeing 737-300, collided with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner turboprop aircraft, upon landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 767-35DER, registered as SP-LPC, named Poznań, serial number 28656. It was built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 1997 and in its 14 years of service, it had logged 85429 airframe hours in 8002 takeoff and landing cycles. The aircraft was powered by two General Electric CF6-80C2B6 engines. [2] [3]: 17
US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States.On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all engine power.
The captain was flying the aircraft and the first officer was monitoring. [7] The two pilots of AC759 acknowledged that they mistook runway 28R for 28L and therefore lined up for landing on the parallel taxiway C, [2] [7] [8] [9] even though runways and taxiways are lit with different colors and intensities. [6]
The plane suffered structural damage to the main landing gear (from the hard touchdown and the abrasion of the locked wheels against the runway surface during the landing roll) and the lower fuselage (both structural deformation from the hard touchdown and various punctures from impact by pieces of debris shed from the main landing gear).