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A US Airways plane with 155 people on board ditched into a chilly Hudson River on Thursday, apparently after striking at least one bird upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Colorado Springs Airport (COS) officials say a private plane had to make an emergency landing at their airport on Friday morning. According to officials ...
Landing gear which suddenly collapsed when a Delta plane crash landed in Toronto and flipped upside down is at the center of a new investigation. Authorities have been tasked with working out what ...
Investigators have pinpointed various failures that led to a Delta plane crash-landing and flipping upside-down at Canada's largest airport last month. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada ...
Investigators found that the plane’s airspeed was 136 knots (roughly 155 mph) at the time of landing, a speed deemed too high for a safe touchdown under the given weather conditions. When the ...
Photo: Peter Koukov/Reuters The Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s preliminary report didn’t reach any final conclusions about why Flight 4819 flipped on the runway upon its landing at ...
The plane’s right wing and right main landing gear broke apart from the aircraft during the Feb. 17 crash-landing, according to preliminary findings GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Delta Flight ...
The Delta Air Lines plane that landed upside down in Toronto in February suffered a landing gear collapse as it made contact with the runway, according to a new report. Investigators released a ...
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The report details how the crew faced wind gusts up to 35 knots and landed hard without flaring the nose of the plane up sufficiently to ease the landing. TSB said preliminary data from the flight ...
A rapid descent — at nearly double the speed defined as a “hard landing” — and a flat angle of approach toward the tarmac may have contributed to the plane colliding with and rolling ...
According to the report, the right main landing gear contacted the runway first, as a result of the plane being slightly banked at the time of landing, which is also not unusual, especially in ...