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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. Parker (@PhillyMayor) February 1, 2025 Jet Rescue Air Ambulance named Valentina Guzman Murillo as the child patient and the mother as Lizeth Murillo Ozuna.

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Examining over 100 years of flight automation and the history of the autopilot

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Even the most automated aircraft, such as the Airbus A350, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and the F-35 military jet, come with such instruments fitted as standard should an electrical failure affect the more modern cockpit display screens. These systems continue to be fitted in many current today. Has automation gone too far?

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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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Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 makes heavy landing in Los Angeles: video 

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However, as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, the footage appears to show the aircraft making little attempt to arrest its rate of descent or initiate a flare by raising its nose to bleed off any excess airspeed before it touches down. It departed LAX at 16:06 local time and landed in Frankfurt at 11:14 the following morning.

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Investigation of Delta Flight 4819 Focuses on Wing Structure, Personnel Activities

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Report States Landing Gear Fractured, Leading to Chain of Events In the report, the TSB outlined the flights rate of descent as it prepared for landing. The two pilots were unable to leave from the cockpit door, and had to exit using the overhead emergency hatch with the help of passengers.

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Why Use a Checklist?

Plane and Pilot

In my glass-cockpit airplane, on an instrument approach, there are a number of things to be set and to look out for. By comparison, in a steam-gauge cockpit, much more information is kept in your head, and many of those avionics settings arent even there. Not all checklists are related to the engine and airframe.

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Review: LATAM Business Class Boeing 787 (MIA-SCL)

One Mile at a Time

LATAM offers Thompson Aero Vantage XL seats on these jets, which is a staggered configuration that you’ll also find on several other airlines. LATAM 787 business class lavatories LATAM’s Boeing 787-9s have two business class lavatories at the front of the cabin — there’s one right in front of the cabin on the right, and one by the cockpit.

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