Mechanical defects that prevented the automatic deployment of speedbrakes, which assist in slowing the plane after landing, and the captain’s failure to monitor and manually deploy them led to an overrun of a passenger jetliner off of a snowy runway in Wyoming. The incident was compounded by an anomaly with the thrust reversers. On... »
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Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Ken Iwelumo update The Dana Air flight crashed into a suburb of Lagos on Sunday. All 153 people on board and an unknown number of residents on the ground were killed in the crash. Witnesses below talk about what they saw. Using cadaver dogs... »
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Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Mike Freer What: Neptune Aviation Services Inc.Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune Where: Iron County, Utah When: June 3, 2012, 1 pm Who: 2 fatalities Why: While fighting a fire east of the Utah/Nevada border, two fire fighting pilots working with the Ely division of the Bureau... »
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Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Ashley Wallace – Touchdown-Aviation What: Minden Air Corp Lockheed SP-2H Neptune Where: Minden-Tahoe Airport in Carson Valley When: June 3, 2012 3:30 pm. Who: 2 aboard Why: The inbound tanker was unable to lower all of it’s landing gear, and burned off (about 7000... »
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