Posts Tagged ‘accidents’
 

 
 

Two Aircraft Collide at La Guardia

Two aircraft clipped wings while in-line for departure at LA Guardia Airport on Friday night. Air Canada Flight 723 to Toronto, and Shuttle America (Delta Connection) Flight 6461, on its way to Chicago, clipped wings while taxi...
by Phil Derner Jr.
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JetBlue Plane Blows All Six Tires While Landing in Sacramento, 15 Passengers Injured

JetBlue experienced their first emergency slide deployment since the Steven Slater affair when one of their A320s blew a tire while landing at Sacramento International Airport early Thursday afternoon.
by BNO News
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Four Months After Hard Landing at JFK, Crippled RAM 767 Nearly Repaired

A Royal Air Maroc 767 suffered substantial fuselage and nose gear damage during a hard landing at JFK this past April. Here's the story of the incident and the impressive engineering feats Boeing techs have pulled off to put he...
by Tom Alfano

 

 

Chopper Pilot Nearly Becomes Eligible for Darwin Award

A Florida helicopter pilot somehow made it home with only a broken arm after attempting an extraordinarily stupid maneuver with his Robinson R22 and failing miserably.
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Luxemburg Airport Technician Needs New Drawers After Close Encounter with a 747

An airport technician was nearly crushed by a Cargolux 747 Freighter landing at Luxemburg.
by admin
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