On Thursday, the cockpit voice and data recorders of the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 which crashed in Tripoli were brought by Naji Dhaw the Libyan investigator to France to be examined to ferret out the details of why the flight crashed. Only the NTSB (US) and the BEA(France) are equipped to read the boxes.
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Cessna Lands on Model Runway
What: single-engine Cessna en route from North Carolina to Long Island NY
Where: Heckscher State Park in East Islip, Long Island NY
When: April 15, 2012, 4 pm
Who: pilot and student
Why: Pilot David J. Jensen and a student were in the single-engine Cessna when it developed engine problems. The pilots made a safe landing on a Heckscher State Park runway normally dedicated to model planes.The plane was not allowed to take off from that runway, and was dismantled for removal.
The incident is under investigation.
NTSB Denies Petition on 1996 Crash of TWA Flight 800
The National Transportation Safety Board today denied a petition for reconsideration of its findings in the investigation of the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800.The petition was filed in June 2013 by a group called The TWA 800 Project. Petitioners claimed a “detonation or high-velocity explosion” caused the crash.
“Our investigations are never ‘closed’,” said Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart. “We always remain open to the presentation of new evidence.”
Before responding to the petition, NTSB staff met with the petitioners’ representatives and listened to an eyewitness who described what he saw on the night of the accident. After a thorough review of all the information provided by the petitioners, the NTSB denied the petition in its entirety because the evidence and analysis presented did not show the original findings were incorrect.
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Unstable Passenger Claims Bomb Implant
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Contact photographer Giovanni VerbeeckWhat: US Airways B767 from Paris to Charlotte
Where: Bangor Maine
When: May 22, 2012
Who: 179 passengers, 9 crew
Why: Around noon, Two F-15 fighter jets scrambled to intercept a US Airways plane where a French woman from Cameroon had handed a note to a flight attendant claiming that she had a surgically implanted bomb. She was traveling alone and had no baggage.The flight which made a safe landing in Maine.
The flight was interrupted for three hours when passengers were evacuated, and federal customs agents escorted the woman off the plane in handcuffs. The plane was examined and reboarded.
A passenger said the crew initially blamed the unexpected landing on fuel and weather issues.