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United Airlines B737 hits kite while landing at Washington-Reagan Airport  

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A United Airlines Boeing 737 had a lucky escape after it struck a kite on its final approach to Washington-Reagan Airport (DCA) in the US capital. The incident involving the United Airlines aircraft and a kite occurred on Saturday, March 29, 2025, according to reports. As can be seen from the map.

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

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A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. Touchdown At 16:00 the airplane touched down on the runway threshold to the left of the centerline.

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Stabilized Approaches

Plane and Pilot

Back in the early days of jet airliners, pilots long experienced in more forgiving two- and four-engine, piston-powered prop planes found themselves running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas on the final approach to landing. Several of these unstabilized approaches resulted in major aircraft damage or worse.

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My Birthday Flight With EVA Air's Boeing 787-10

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Taipei to Hong route has a lot of flights and the airline deploys both 787 series but there are 2 issues, the flight time is too short and also aircraft change happens very frequently so with this route ended up being ruled out, my next option was a flight from Tokyo to Taipei. I suppose the airline rotate these aircraft every few months.

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Flying on New Year's Day With A New Airline from Frankfurt to Athens!

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

My ride: SX-NEC in the airline's new livery Introduction Flying with Aegean Airlines has been in my mind for a while and when the chance presented itself, I decided to go for it. However I would be flying Economy Class so will I be impressed with the airline? Welcome to my 2024 New Year trip report! Read on to find out.

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A day trip to Fukuoka Part 1: Solaseed Air Boeing 737-800 Okinawa to Fukuoka

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

If you are lucky, you might fly one of the airline's aircraft painted in the Pokemon special livery. As I had already flown with Starflyer and Peach, I looked the my other options and they are Solaseed Air, Jetstar Japan, Sky Airlines, Japan Airlines and it's subsidiaries and ANA. Passenger's pick up point at the ground level.

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ILS Explained (With Examples)

Pilot Institute

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. Approach Lighting System (ALS) The ALS helps the pilot transition from instrument flying to visual flying. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area.