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The helicopter was on an otherwise normal approach to Sumburgh Airport, [1] when at 18:17–18:20 local time, the aircraft lost contact with air traffic control. No mayday was sent out by the pilots as they attempted to make a controlled ditching into the North Sea, 1.5 [1]-2 nm west from Sumburgh.
On the same day, PSA Airlines retired flight number 5342 and said that the new number for the Wichita to Washington National route would be Flight 5677. [ 77 ] [ 83 ] [ 84 ] Separately, two staff members of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority were taken into custody on suspicion of providing CNN with surveillance footage of the crash.
The Tui flight then declared "Mayday, mayday, mayday fuel". Flight data monitoring found that Birmingham cleared another aircraft to land ahead of it, adding 25 nautical miles to its holding pattern.
All major pieces of the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided last week in Washington, DC, have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Saturday.
The mishap came one day before AA Flight 5342 − carrying 60 passengers and four crewmembers − collided with a Black Hawk trying to land at Reagan National Airport. The helicopter had three ...
[1] [2] FAA paused all flight departures between 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. ET. [2] Flights already in the air were allowed to continue to their destinations. [1] Around 8:30 am. ET, flights were beginning to resume departures. [1] The outage was the first time since September 11, 2001, that the FAA issued a nationwide ground stop in the United ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Data retrieved from an investigation into a collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in ...
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