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

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Having been cruising along at around 500 miles per hour (800 kph) or so, depending on aircraft type, the crew will need to reduce this to around 150 mph (240 kph) for the final approach, and even lower for the actual landing itself. At this point, the use of the aircraft’s flaps becomes critical.

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DHL 737 crashes short of Vilnius runway

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On the 25th of November 2024, a Boeing 737-400 crashed on final approach to Vilnius airport with one fatality. The 31-year-old cargo aircraft, registered in Spain as EC-MFE, was operated by Swiftair on behalf of the German logistics group DHL for a routine cargo flight from Leipzig, Germany, to Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Flying Sky Express Airbus A320NEO From Athens to Thessaloniki!

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

It operates both cargo and passenger transport. For the cargo side, Sky Express aircargo was established at a later date, joining venture with Finaval Group and established routes between Europe and the Far East. Currently the airport has 2 terminals, the main and the satallite terminal and uses 2 runways, runway 03L/21R and 03R/21R.

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Flying on (Former Malindo) Batik Air Malaysia Boeing 737-800 from KUL-SIN

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

The KLIA1 terminal was opened in June 1998 and is a hub for Batik Air Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines, MASKargo, Raya Airways, World Cargo Airlines, Air Asia and Air Asia X. In addition to this terminal, a 3rd runway was built to cope with the demand, runway 15/33). On final approach to SIN.

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My Tribute to Vistara Part 2: Flying Vistara's Airbus A321neo From New Delhi To Singapore

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Anyway, we landed at runway 20R and that means one thing, a good view of the traffic along the expressway as our aircraft taxied across the bridge (south cross) to get to Terminal 2. At this point, we were on final approach as landing gears were deployed and flaps were set. On final approach onto runway 20R.

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

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

This was my flight's final assigned gate. I spotted another green stripes livery on this A330-900neo on final approach to this airport. Window shot photos After pushed back, we took about 15 minutes to reach the runway. Lufthansa Cargo's Boeing 777F replaced the fleet of MD-11F and now operating just this aircraft type.

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Flying the Latest Airline In Taiwan, Starlux (Part 1: SIN-TPE Premium Economy)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

On that day, there were three commercial flights and a cargo flight flying from Taipei to Singapore and would return to Taipei after a short layover. After 20 minutes of taxi, we reached runway 20L. At this point, we were on final approach to Taipei Taoyuan Airport. Starlux uses terminal 1 for flights in Singapore.

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