The Il-76 cargo plane was chartered to fly Ugandan peace keeping forces and equipment to Somalia. On final approach, while the airplane was 2,5 - 3 km from the runway at a height of about 120 m, the airplane was struck by a projectile, most likely an RPG. The Il-76 was hit on the left hand side of the fuselage near the main landing gear. A fire erupted, causing smoke inside the plane. The airpl...
At 6:30 a.m. at Monday, a C-5 military transporter crashed in an emergency landing at Dover AFB. No one onboard was killed, but several injured. This is the 7th crash of this airplane type.
About 0554 eastern daylight time, on September 5, 1996, a Douglas DC-10-10CF, N68055, operated by the Federal Express Corporation as flight 1406, made an emergency landing at Stewart International Airport, Newburgh, New York, after the flightcrew determined that there was smoke in the cabin cargo compartment. The flight was operating...
This is the only absolutely automated airplane wash facility in the world.
You've got only one tasK: to give the computer information on the airplane and the weather situation and then the machines begin to work.
Another airplane graveyard, this one with many more planes than the Mojave airplane graveyard. You have to be about 10,000 feet high to get all the planes onto your screen in GEarth.
The landing approach using runway 13 at Kai Tak was distinctive. To land on runway 13, an aircraft first took a descent heading northeast. The aircraft would pass over the harbour, and then the very densely populated areas on Western Kowloon. This leg of the approach was guided by an IGS (Instrument Guidance System, a modified ILS) after 1974. Upon reaching a small hill marked with a checkerboa...
Date: 5 January 2001
Type: Boeing 727-46F
Registration: S9-BAI
Serial: 20078/686
Operator: Air Gemini Cargo
The cargo plane approached Dundo in favourable weather conditions. The airplane touched down just short of the runway. The right main landing gear collapsed after striking the raised lip of the runway. The Boeing 727 continued onto the runwa...
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