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The helicopter was on an otherwise normal approach to Sumburgh Airport, [1] when at 18:17–18:20 local time, the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control. No mayday was sent out by the pilots as they attempted to make a controlled ditching into the North Sea, 1.5 [1]-2 nm west from Sumburgh.
It was the first major commercial passenger flight accident in the U.S. in nearly 16 years, following Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009. It was also the first fatal crash involving American Airlines since Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, [ 49 ] as well as the first fatal crash of a CRJ700 series aircraft. [ 50 ]
The Tui flight then declared "Mayday, mayday, mayday fuel". Flight data monitoring found that Birmingham cleared another aircraft to land ahead of it, adding 25 nautical miles to its holding pattern.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Data retrieved from an investigation into a collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in ...
The mishap came one day before AA Flight 5342 − carrying 60 passengers and four crewmembers − collided with a Black Hawk trying to land at Reagan National Airport. The helicopter had three ...
[1] [2] FAA paused all flight departures between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. ET. [2] Flights already in the air were allowed to continue to their destinations. [1] Around 8:30 am. ET, flights were beginning to resume departures. [1] The outage was the first time since September 11, 2001, that the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop in the United ...
Officials on Saturday morning confirmed an additional fatality: One person who was in their car when the medical flight crashed to the ground. At the time, they said 19 others have been injured ...
KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 collide on the runway in thick fog during the KLM aircraft's attempt to take off, killing 583 people. Note: This accident was previously shown on the 2005 "Crash of the Century" special. [9] Although the program is not regarded as a Mayday episode, Cineflix used the footage on a few episodes of Mayday.