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Video footage of fire containment efforts shows a California Air National Guard plane attempting to suppress the fire by "dropping a line of fire retardant on the Palisades Fire in the mountains ...
There were 104 passengers and five crew members on board at the time of the incident. The flight has since been rescheduled to take off at 12:30 p.m. local time.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923 was a chartered military transport flight that ditched in the North Atlantic Ocean on September 23, 1962. The Lockheed Constellation L-1049H was transporting 68 military personnel of the United States Army from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey to Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany .
In Toronto, passengers evacuated the upside-down CRJ900 aircraft – operated by Endeavor Air, a regional airline for Delta – as first responders doused its fuselage with foamy fire retardant.
A brake overheat warning system would have warned the crew that there was a problem. However, no such system was required on this type of aircraft, so Flight 420's crew had no idea that a fire had developed. The fire then ruptured the aircraft's hydraulic line, located near the wheel well, which caused the fire to intensify. [1]: 29-33
On October 28, 2016, the Boeing 767-300ER operating the flight (registered N345AN) was accelerating for takeoff on runway 28R when the aircraft's right engine suffered an uncontained failure that led to a severe fire. The crew managed to abort the takeoff and evacuate everyone on board, while emergency services extinguished the fire.
The footage, believed to taken from a terminal inside the Ronald Reagan National Airport, captured the moment of impact between AA Flight 5342 and the Army Black Hawk helicopter at about 9 p.m.
At 1:15:32 pm, the aircraft started descending to a very low height above the ground with a left roll. At around 1:15:37 pm, the aircraft collided with the ground and a post-impact fuel-fed fire ensued. All three crew were fatally injured and the aircraft was destroyed. No distress calls were received by air traffic control prior to the impact ...