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Loved ones of Germanwings plane crash victims mark 10 years since tragedy

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On March 24, 2015, 150 people died after leaving Barcelona, Spain, for Dusseldorf, Germany when Lubitz locked himself alone in an Airbus A320 cockpit and flew the plane into the French Alps. He kept the cockpit door locked during the descent, despite requests for access made via the keypad and the cabin interphone.

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Lithuanian prosecutors suspect human error in DHL Vilnius crash, probe continues

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This system is crucial for wing deployment, which could have led to the aircrafts descent. On December 20, 2024, the Transport Accident and Incident Investigation Division completed the primary analysis of its safety investigation into the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder of the DHL cargo aircraft.

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Philadelphia plane crash CVR unearthed eight feet deep, aircraft victims named

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Officials from the National Transport Safety Bureau (NTSB) hope the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will shed light on what caused the tragedy on January 31, 2025. The black box belonging to a Learjet 55 ambulance aircraft that crashed in Philadelphia has been found by investigators at a depth of eight feet.

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Boeing 737-400F destroyed after inflight fire and emergency landing in Brazil   

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According to Aviation Herald, the aircraft’s journey had been uneventful until it was on its descent towards Guarulhos Airport when the crew reported a fire in the cargo hold and declared an emergency. The flight was being operated by a 30.6-year-old year-old Boeing 737-400(SF) freighter registered as PS-TLB.

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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

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While the report draws no conclusions as to the cause of the crash, investigators set out a detailed timeline which focuses heavily on the Mitsubishi CRJ900s descent. TSB At a height of 50 feet the rate of descent had increased to 1114 feet per minute (fpm) from 672 fpm around 14 seconds before. to the right, the TSB said.

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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes on seventh test flight, first stage recovered

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The first stage, referred to as Super Heavy, made a controlled descent and was captured by mechanical arms on the launch tower, colloquially known as Mechazilla. The flight, which lifted off on January 16, 2025, at 4:37 p.m. Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

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Among the wreckage pulled up from the depths was a cockpit video recorder. The roll was not checked by the pilot and continued past 60 degrees of bank and the descent rate increased. Extreme aerodynamic stresses of the out-of-control descent eventually caused the tail to separate. But this accident was different.