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A Christmas Day plane crash in Kazakhstan may have taken over 40 lives. Image credits: fl360aero. As reported by Daily Mail, the plane broke into several pieces as it landed in Aktau, ...
Emirates has denounced “alarming” videos of a plane crash circulating on social media as “fabricated” and “untrue”. Videos on TikTok and X/Twitter of Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 ...
A YouTuber equipped with a parachute, camera and selfie stick took off on a solo flight and purposely crashed his plane in a California national forest — for online views and in the hopes of ...
Pieces of the tires damaged the plane's hydraulic system, causing the plane's brakes to fail. [6] The captain aborted at 144 knots (267 km/h; 166 mph). The normal operating procedure for Learjet 60s is never to abort above the "go/no-go" decision speed V 1 , which for this particular take-off was 136 knots (252 km/h; 157 mph).
The crash of Flight 182 was preceded by a near-tragedy almost ten years earlier (also involving Pacific Southwest Airlines), when, on January 15, 1969, a PSA Boeing 727-214 (#N973PS) had collided with Cessna 182L (#N42242) on-ascent from San Francisco International Airport, bound for Ontario International Airport.
[14] A pilot who witnessed the crash saw the Cessna go down as he was working on some machinery "about half a mile" (0.8 km) away. He recalled the aircraft being only "60 to 100 feet" (18 to 30 m) off the ground before it crashed. He went to get a fire truck and was stunned by what he saw upon arriving at the crash site. "It was pretty devastating.
On May 1, 2023, a single-engine plane crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Colombia. Though the three adults onboard died, the four children, aged 11 months to 13 years old, survived.The eldest ...
The Black Christmas disaster was a series of air crashes that took place in Shanghai, China, on 25 December 1946. This event involved three out of the four flights scheduled for Shanghai that day, including CA 48, CNAC 140, and CNAC 115. These crashes were primarily attributed to extremely poor visibility conditions due to foggy weather.