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American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control.
An F/A-18 taking off from an aircraft carrier An Embraer E175 taking off. Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aerospace vehicle leaves the ground and becomes airborne. For aircraft traveling vertically, this is known as liftoff.
Continental Airlines Flight 1713 was a commercial airline flight that crashed while taking off in a snowstorm from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on November 15, 1987.
The flight's first officer, the crash's only survivor, was later featured in a film about sole survivors of plane crashes. The opening skit of the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards – which aired on the same night as the plane crash – featured host Conan O'Brien getting into a plane crash similar to the TV show Lost. The skit was criticized and ...
Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing or Conventional Take-off and Landing operation is preferred to VTOL operation. V/STOL was developed to allow fast jets to be operated from clearings in forests, from very short runways, and from small aircraft carriers that would previously only have been able to carry helicopters .
Around 2.40 p.m. Saturday, Amanda Gallagher, 37, was taking photos at an airfield just outside of Wichita when she hit the plane’s propeller while the aircraft was on the ground, according to ...
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The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office said 37-year-old Amanda Gallagher was taking pictures at the Air Capital Drop Zone in Derby, on Saturday, Oct. 26, when she backed into the moving propeller ...