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The Captain, Trevor Arnold, was a 50-year-old South African male. He had logged 13,860 hours of total flying time, including 3,277 logged on the 737-200. He was hired by Nationwide Airlines on 1 November 1997 but after three years, on 15 December 2000, he resigned.
Octavia E. Butler Landing is the February 18, 2021, landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover within Jezero crater on planet Mars. On March 5, 2021, NASA named the site for the American science fiction author, Octavia E. Butler, who died on February 24, 2006. The Mars landing took place nearly 15 years to the day after her death.
"Bradbury Landing" is a named location on Aeolis Palus.It is where the Curiosity rover landed. [25] [26] The coordinates of the landing site are: 27] [28] The landing site location was named for science fiction author Ray Bradbury. [26]
Landing strip indicators are installed in pairs and are used to show the alignment of landing strips. Traffic pattern indicators are arranged in pairs in conjunction with landing strip indicators and used to indicate the direction of turns when there is a variation from the normal left traffic pattern. If there is no segmented circle installed ...
The report also noted that the pilots ignored a windshear warning that would have required a go-around unless it was spurious. [21] Investigators found traces of lightning impact on antennae, various sensors, exit lights and the cockpit windows. Investigators re-examined the design of the landing gear and found that it met certification ...
Bradbury Landing is the August 6, 2012, landing site within Gale crater on planet Mars of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover. On August 22, 2012, on what would have been his 92nd birthday, NASA named the site for author Ray Bradbury , who had died on June 5, 2012.
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It was an alternative landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle. [17] The U.S. Navy tug USS Palatka (YTB-801) leaving Bermuda in August 1994. Areas for clean-up identified in 1997 by a private contractor were: Cleaning up petroleum and heavy-metal contamination; Eliminating friable and non-friable asbestos; Demolishing derelict and unsafe buildings