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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know: Part one  

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Yakobchuk Viachelev / Shutterstock One of the last activities you may notice before the doors close will be the flight dispatcher entering the flight deck to hand over any last-minute paperwork, the final passenger and fuel figures, and a finalized load sheet to the flight crew.

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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know:   Part two   

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At every cabin crew station, where crew members sit during take-off, landing, and during bouts of turbulence, interphones are available for cabin crew members to communicate with each other, as well as with the pilots on the flight deck. Of course, they also double up to act as the PA system for announcements to the passengers.

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Hail Damage to Austrian Airlines A320

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While the aircraft was flying at a ground speed of 453 knots (about 840 kilometers per hour), countless hailstones battered the fuselage, engines, and cockpit windows. Austrian Wings, an Austrian aviation magazine, describes the scene (translation mine). Without warning, the Airbus A320 entered a hailstorm and was violently shaking.

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Drone Lingo Simplified: Acronyms Every Pilot Needs To Know

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FAA Federal Aviation Administration The FAA is the US federal government agency in charge of aviation standards, air traffic control, airspace safety, and the certification of personnel and aircraft. Then that is BVLOS, even if the drone is just 100 feet away. The list of accepted MOCs is available at the FAA website.

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Air Atlanta 747 freighter rejects takeoff from taxiway at Riyadh Airport 

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Flightradar24 At 00:37 local time, the 747 freighter was cleared to take off from runway 33R by Riyadh air traffic controllers. However, for reasons yet to be determined, the crew of the Air Atlanta cargo plane began their takeoff roll from taxiway K. The aircraft accelerated down taxiway K, seemingly intending to take off.

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35 years ago: How a United Airlines crew landed an ‘unflyable’ DC-10

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Haynes took the controls and, noting the same control issues, reduced thrust on the number one engine, which resulted in the aircraft rolling out in a wings-level attitude, giving the crew critical time to evaluate the dire situation Flight 232 was facing.

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Rotation Gone Wrong: The Critical Error Behind LATAM’s Milan Tail Strike

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Then 383 passengers boarded for the flight, making for a total of 398 people on board. On the flight deck, an instructor pilot sat in the right seat and was Pilot Flying for the first leg. The flight data recorder shows the following: Directly before take-off, the gross weight was 328.2

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