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Captain Robert Piché, 48, an experienced glider pilot, and First Officer Dirk DeJager, 28, glided the plane to a successful emergency landing in the Azores, saving the lives of all 306 people (293 passengers and 13 crew) on board. [1]
Robert Piché (born November 5, 1952) is a retired Quebecer pilot. On August 24, 2001, he was captain of the Airbus A330 flying Air Transat Flight 236 and managed to land the aircraft safely in the Azores after it lost all power due to fuel exhaustion.
Dirk De Jager (born c. 1972), Air Transat pilot; Fanie de Jager (born 1949), South African singer; Geoffrey de Jager (born 1950), South African entrepreneur and philanthropist; Gerrit de Jager (born 1954), Dutch comic-artist; Herbert de Jager (1634–1694), Dutch orientalist; Jacob de Jager (1923–2004), Dutch Mormon leader; Jan Kees de Jager ...
Stiff winds blew over Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport Monday afternoon as a slim aircraft and its 80 passengers and crew drifted toward the snowy tarmac, cleared by air traffic controllers to ...
Authorities say 21 people are injured after a Delta Air Lines plane flipped upside down while landing amid wintry conditions Monday at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
A passenger aboard the Delta flight that flipped upside down in a crash-landing in Toronto on Monday recalled how within seconds of the wheels touching down, his body was turned fully sideways and ...
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves, 39, was the evaluator for the pilot flying and was serving as the pilot monitoring who primarily communicated with air traffic controllers. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Staff Sergeant Ryan O'Hara, 29, was the crew chief (in-flight aircraft maintenance technician ).
An American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. All 67 people aboard the aircraft are presumed dead.