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Delta CRJ-900 Accident In Toronto: Preliminary Report Published

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What do we know about the final seconds of the flight? At the time of the accident, winds were at an angle of 270 degrees (the runway was at an angle of 230 degrees), at 28 knots, gusting to 35 knots. degree bank Two seconds before touchdown, the planes bank angle to the right increased, to 5.9

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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. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived.

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

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For others, flying on a commercial airliner may be a once-a-year event when heading off on vacation. In the case of certain passengers, a flight may represent the first time they have ever been onboard an airplane, generating feelings of excitement and trepidation in equal measure about what may lie ahead.

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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pilots

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I have seen military pilots, multi-thousand-hour airline captains, and 100-hour private pilots, each of whom fits that description. My answer is simple: I am looking to see which students I would want to share the flight deck with because they had studied the hardest and were eager to learn more. I like that definition.

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Hail Damage to Austrian Airlines A320

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I’ve been intrigued by the photographs being passed around of the Austrian Airlines Airbus A320 that flew into a hailstorm. Austrian Airlines, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Austria. The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet. But not just that.

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

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Modern commercial airliners have complicated cabin air conditioning systems , as well as other electrical cabling and pipework that keep all the systems on the aircraft functioning. EQRoy / Shutterstock This is a regular source of passenger frustration on certain airlines. All of this hardware needs to be accommodated somewhere.

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Review: Austrian Business Class Boeing 787 (VIE-IAD)

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For the transatlantic return segment of our royal visit to Versailles , I flew Austrians Boeing 787-9 business class on the nine hour flight from Vienna (VIE) to Washington (IAD). Whats exciting is that the airline recently started taking delivery of 787s , representing a new era for the carrier.