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Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
The first crash investigators to arrive at Tenerife the day after the crash travelled there by way of a 3-hour boat ride from Las Palmas. [45] The first aircraft that was able to land was a U.S. Air Force C-130 transport, which landed on the airport's main taxiway at 12:50 on March 29.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
Data from flight-tracking service FlightAware showed a plane leaving the airport at 2:07 p.m. before its flight ended at 2:09, which is the time that police said they received a notification about ...
December 29 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flying from New York to Miami, crashed in the Florida Everglades when the crew was distracted by a faulty gear-down light, resulting in the deaths of 101 of the 176 people on board. This was the first crash of a widebody aircraft and the first loss of a Lockheed Tristar.
Tell our kids I love them,” the man said while recording from the plane. The passengers were eerily silent while a flight attendant instructed them to remain in their seats.
Kissimmee airport manager Ramon Senorans told the station that the plane took off under visual flight rules, requiring pilots to avoid clouds and remain at a minimum of 1,000ft.
The cause of the crash was wind shear during a heavy thunderstorm. 12 November Overseas National Airways Flight 032, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, struck a flock of sea gulls during takeoff, crashing past Taxiway Z. All 129 passengers and 10 crew members escaped successfully while the aircraft was destroyed.