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Officials have recovered the cockpit voice recorder - also known as the black box - from the helicopter involved in the plane crash that killed 67 people at Ronald Reagan Washington National ...
A voice warning system is a system designed to alert the crew of ... into McDonnell Douglas DC-9, ... F-16 Fighting Falcon and Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter. [2]
Editor's note: This page reflects news from Friday, Jan. 31. For the latest updates on the plane crash, please read USA TODAY's coverage of the investigation on Saturday, Feb. 1. WASHINGTON ...
The midair collision between the Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Eagle Flight 5342 near DC’s Reagan National Airport marks the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 2001.
A piece of the wreckage of Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979, despite being equipped with a GPWS.All 257 people on the plane died. Beginning in the early 1970s, a number of studies looked at the occurrence of CFIT accidents, where a properly functioning airplane under the control of a fully qualified and certificated crew is flown into terrain (or water or ...
The helicopter was on a training mission when it collided Wednesday night with a commercial plane that was on approach to land at Washington’s Reagan National Airport, killing all 64 aboard the ...
A ground proximity warning system (GPWS) is a system designed to alert pilots if their aircraft is in immediate danger of flying into the ground or an obstacle. The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) defines GPWS as a type of terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS). [ 1 ]
The mid-air collision between the helicopter and an American Airlines jet claimed the lives of 67 people. Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/U S Coast Guard/UPI/Shutterstock