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Saudia transports three Boeing 777s from Jeddah to Riyadh by road 

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AviationWG / X Photos posted on X show the three aircraft with wings, tails, and horizontal stabilizers removed with cranes being used to lift the carcasses of the aircraft onto the trailers for their ignominious final journeys.

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Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

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The aircraft was slightly below the glide slope, but on the visual segment of the approach and tracking the runway centerline. As was seen in video footage of the incident the aircraft then began to slide along the runway and rolled to the right until it became inverted. to the right, the TSB said.

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AirCorps Aviation’s Piper L-4H Grasshopper – Winter 2025 Update

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(image via AirCorps Aviation) The larger, freshly painted parts shown here include the brake cylinders (lower left center), brake pedals above them, the vertical stabilizer fairing on the near right center, and the horizontal stabilizers center tube on the far right.

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Airplane Lights: What Each Light Does (Red/Green, Strobe, Beacon)

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These lights are only used during flight and on the runway, as they are too bright for use on the ground, particularly at night. They are positioned downward to illuminate the runway and, as mentioned earlier, are sometimes used as taxi lights when dimmed. LED lights are commonly used for strobe lights, particularly on newer aircraft.

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

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Having initially been given the option to land on runway 31, which was 8,999ft (2,743m) in length, the crew advised that, as they were unable to turn the aircraft in the distance remaining towards that runway orientation, they were instead committed to land on runway 22, which was just 6,600ft (2,012m) long.

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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. The airline hasnt had a fatal accident since 2006, when Delta Connection aircraft overran the runway and crashed, killing 49 people.

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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. But lets not forget its big advantage!