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Contrails are uncommon from lower-altitude aircraft. Cirrus clouds can develop after the formation of persistent contrails and can have an additional global warming effect. [12] Their global warming contribution is uncertain and estimating aviation's overall contribution often excludes cirrus cloud enhancement. [7] Particulates
The ShinMaywa US-2 is a large Japanese short takeoff and landing amphibious aircraft that employs boundary layer control technology for enhanced STOL and stall suppression performance. Manufactured by seaplane specialist ShinMaywa (formerly Shin Meiwa ), it was developed from the earlier Shin Meiwa US-1A seaplane, which was introduced during ...
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 with 163 passengers and 14 crew on board arriving from Oslo, Norway overran runway 4R on landing in low visibility and wound up in shallow water 200 meters from the end of the runway, injuring 12 passengers. The cause of the accident was the crew's failure to monitor their ...
On 22 December 2009, an American Airlines Boeing 737-800, operating American Airlines Flight 331 (Washington, D.C.–Miami–Kingston, Jamaica) and carrying 148 passengers and 6 crew, overran runway 12 on landing at Kingston in poor weather. The plane continued on the ground outside the airport perimeter and broke apart on the beach.
4 March 2006 - Lion Air Flight 8987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operated by Lion Air veers off the runway on landing due to differential thrust. Everyone survives. Everyone survives. 24 December 2006 - Lion Air Flight 792 , a Boeing 737-400 operated by Lion Air lands hard causing the landing gear to collapse.
The single-engine aircraft, a Diamond DA40, declared an emergency after the door plummeted into the yard of a vacant home, minutes after it took off from Myrtle Beach International Airport at 2:53 ...
A Japan Airlines plane taxiing across the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma Airport Wednesday morning struck a parked Delta Airlines plane — leaving the planes damaged but nobody hurt, according to reports.
He grabbed the control stick to gain altitude and advanced the throttles in anticipation of having to abort the landing and perform a go-around, but the plane's main landing gear had already struck the water, [6] first right then left, approximately 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi (4.0 km) short of runway 28L. The plane landed in the water at approximately 9:24 ...