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Revealed: The safest airlines in the US in 2025

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But since 1971, the airline operated without a single fatality, until in 2000 a failure of part of the horizontal stabilizer on an MD-80 caused a crash that claimed 88 lives. American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on final approach to Reagan Airport.

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

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Upon his return, he reported that both right-hand and left-hand rear stabilizers had sustained damage. With the landing gear down but without the use of the wing leading-edge slats and trailing-edge flaps, there was little the crew could do to control the stricken aircraft’s approach speed, other than through variable engine power settings.

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Voices from Combat: The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Becomes a Bomber

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A short 18 months later, on August 13, 1937, the XPB2Y-1 took to the skies for the first time, revealing plenty of room for improvement lateral instability was a major problem for the deep-hulled boat, so the single tail fin was augmented by two smaller fins on the horizontal stabilizers.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

The DHC-8, which had been tasked to transport supplies to Niigata in response to the Noto Peninsula earthquake occurring the previous day, had entered the runway at Haneda Airport as the JAL A350 was on final approach. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other.

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