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The accident occurred during a test flight of the first prototype BAC One-Eleven (registration G-ASHG) which had taken off from Wisley Airfield with seven crew on board, captained by Mike Lithgow. The aircraft was on its fifth test flight to assess stability and handling characteristics during the approach to—and recovery from—a stall with ...
On 3 June 1966, a newly built Hawker Siddeley Trident jetliner crashed during a pre-delivery test flight near the village of Felthorpe, Norfolk, England, killing all four crew. The aeroplane had entered a deep stall from which the crew were unable to recover. It was the first loss of a Trident aircraft. [1]
The test flight lifted off at approximately 10:38 AM Central Daylight Time, and the pre-planned sequence of tests included several simulations of one engine inoperative (OEI) scenarios, which simulated the power loss associated with the failure of one of the aircraft's two engines; each OEI simulation was accomplished through a special software mode which limited the output of both engines ...
Habib Battah said he noticed a strange smell and wet ground on his Air France flight. When he went to wipe it, he said, "It was blood red." 'I had never seen so much blood': Air France passenger ...
The NTSB report blamed the flight crew for not properly employing the plane's de-icing system. 19 February 1985 – The crew of China Airlines Flight 006 lost control of their Boeing 747SP over the Pacific Ocean, after the No. 4 engine flamed out. The aircraft descended 30,000 feet in two-and-a-half minutes before control was regained.
A rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo took place on April 29, 2013, with an engine burn of 16 seconds duration. The brief flight began at an altitude of 47,000 feet (14,000 m), and reached a maximum altitude of 55,000 feet (17,000 m) and a speed of Mach 1.2 (920 mph or 1,480 km/h). [28]
The collapse of air-traffic control that caused major flight chaos and how it unfolded. Simon Calder. March 15, 2024 at 3:20 AM. The August bank holiday meltdown hit 700,000 passengers (Lucy North/PA)
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