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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

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TSB Approach sequence Due to reported wind gusts as the CRJ900 approached Toronto Pearson following a flight from MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) the aircraft was flown at 149 knots. seconds before touchdown the aircrafts indicated airspeed was 136 knots, and its ground speed was 111 knots.

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Delta CRJ-900 Accident In Toronto: Preliminary Report Published

One Mile at a Time

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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The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed.

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Icing, Systems, and Human Factors: Preliminary Findings on Voepass flight 2283

Fear of Landing

The weather was overcast for the flight route, with cloud tops reaching temperatures forecast from 0° to -35°C (32° to -31°F). The flight crew adjusted the icing bug to 165 knots. The icing bug is set every flight and indicates the minimum viable speed in icing conditions. The ATR’s airspeed was 191 knots.

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

One Mile at a Time

As you can see, the plane doesnt yet have the full Austrian livery, but instead has an all-white fuselage, except for the Austrian name written across the front of the plane, and the Austrian logo on the tail. He warned of some turbulence on approach, and of strong winds at Washington Dulles, which were gusting up to 30 knots.

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We Fly: Cirrus SR G7

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Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

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Rotation Gone Wrong: The Critical Error Behind LATAM’s Milan Tail Strike

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There are a number of tail strike incidents caused by the take-off weight being logged as lower than it actually was. The first page is all the basic details that we mostly knew: the aircraft was a Boeing 777 (registered in Brazil as PT-MUG) operated by Tam Linhas Aereas for a passenger flight from Milan Malpensa (MXP) to São Paulo.

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