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US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States.On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all engine power.
In aviation, a water landing is, in the broadest sense, an aircraft landing on a body of water. Seaplanes, such as floatplanes and flying boats, land on water as a normal operation. Ditching [1] is a controlled emergency landing on the water surface in an aircraft not designed for the purpose, a very rare occurrence. [2]
The aircraft, although relatively intact after the water landing, suffered a massive de-acceleration, which caused the aircraft the stop in a distance shorter than the aircraft itself. [citation needed] An emergency slide, likely from the R1 door, had detached from the aircraft, and provided a life raft for most of the survivors.
A small plane towing a banner crashed into the water just 90 feet from the shoreline at a beach in New Hampshire over the weekend, according to authorities and video of the incident taken by ...
The crew consisted of Captain George T. Kunz (age 55), employed by National Airlines since 1956, who had qualified to fly the Boeing 727 in 1967 and accumulated 18,109 flight hours in his career with 5,358 hours on the Boeing 727; First Officer Leonard G. Sanderson Jr. (31), employed by National Airlines since 1976, with 4,848 flight hours of which 842 hours were on the Boeing 727; and Flight ...
Spirit Airliens flight NK270 was forced to return to island’s Montego Bay shortly after takeoff Terrified Spirit Airlines passengers brace for emergency water landing on flight from Jamaica to ...
Aeroflot Flight 366 (Russian: Рейс 366 Аэрофлота), also known as the Miracle on the Neva, was a water landing by a Tupolev Tu-124 of the Soviet state airline Aeroflot (Moscow division). The aircraft took off from Tallinn -Ülemiste Airport ( TLL ) at 08:55 on 21 August 1963 with 45 passengers and 7 crew on board. [ 1 ]
An emergency slide fell out of a plane and hit a house below while it was still in the air before it landed at O’Hare International Airport. Plane's emergency evacuation slide falls out ...