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AIRCRAFT IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
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Boeing 747 - This Video is very widely distributed, a 747 taking off just before the end of the runway, and passing less than 100 feet over plane spotters.

Another B747 - Performing a crosswind landing

Another B747 - Landing at St Maarteen Airport. The Airport has one 2345 meter long runway, 09/27, and the 747 is landing on runway 09, in which the threshold is only 80 meters away from a beach, the end of the runway only 2 meters away. If you want to see more amazing videos of this, look up the airport on YouTube.

Messerschmitt Me 262 "Schwalbe" - the world's first turbojet fighter aircraft, which first flew in 1941 with piston engines, and 5 years later with jet engines. The only two countries that used this plane were Germany and Czechoslovakia respectively, the Czechs retired these planes in 1957.

Boeing 777 - Performing a Crosswind Landing

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning - Joint Strike Fighter, VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) Australia wishes to purchase around 100 JSF's to replace the aging F18 Hornets and F111's.

Extra 300 - flown by Peter Besenyei, a world renown Hungarian Aerobatics Pilot, in Japan 2006. He also participates frequently in the Red Bull Air Race.

Sukhoi Su-31 - The Pilot is Svetlana Kapanina, a world champion aerobatics pilot.

F/A 18 Hornet - Carrier launch, catapault.

RA-5C A5 Vigilante - A High Performance, Supersonic Jet Bomber made for the US Navy.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress - Takeoff from Seat overlooking engines 1 and 2, on the port wing. Filmed during Takeoff on a shitty day.

Unsure of the next aircraft, but apparently the pilot is Peter Besenyei. Beyond stupidity, but Bloody Amazing!

Aero Commander Shrike - In the cockpit with Bob Hoover at the controls. In a barrel roll, there are no forces acting on the plane (If performed correctly), of both acceleration or gravitational load forces. That is why the iced tea was able to be poured, even though the plane was upside down. An Amazing pilot and video!

F-14 Tomcat - Performing a high speed, low altitude pass of a carrier. The speed was probably around 550 - 600 knots, or 990 to 1080 km/h, subsonic (that was not a sonic boom) but still producing a very loud (120dB+) sound. Look at the water!

Grumman S-2 Tracker - it barely has enough speed to rotate, let alone cope with all the drag obtained from flying into the wave, but it still manages to climb out.

F-14 Tomcat - Another Tomcat performing a high speed, low altitude pass of a carrier. The speed was probably closer to 650 knots, or 1170 km/h, barely subsonic (that was not a sonic boom), probably even transonic, if you notice the large cloud forming, called the Prandtl-Glauert singularity.

Boeing 707 - Filmed during its flight tests. The pilot, Tex Johnson, performed during this flight a barrel roll, much to the dismay of his employers. However, the military were viewing the flight, and they were so impressed at the manoeuvring capabilities of the passenger jet, and signed a contract with Boeing to produce military aircraft. Tex was not fired for his stunt, just asked not to do it again.

McDonnell Douglas RAF GR7 Harrier - The Harrier in High speed flight, very widely distributed video of it passing just meters over the heads of the military personnel on the ground.

C-130 Hercules - The famous 'Angel' Flares.

F-22 Raptor - A tail view of the newest, most high tech plane in the world. The Raptor has performed brilliantly in its tests, apart from some minor flaws.

Extra 300 - Not much I can say about this one.

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A funny SNL skit underlining the absurdity of the TSA's anti-liquid rules.

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TMZ has obtained an explosive videotape -- well, a prematurely explosive videotape -- showing the extremely graphic and dangerous activities inside the chopper of celeb pilot David Martz... and let's just say they don't call it the cockpit for nothin'.

The tape proves Martz -- who's currently being investigated by the FAA -- was undeniably distracted by his porn star passenger Puma Swede ... for 47.5 seconds anyway ... while his chopper was flying high above San Diego and his pants were flying down around his ankles. And there were many minutes of foreplay, where at least one hand -- in particular, several fingers -- was definitely not on the controls.

While Martz recklessly buzzed over crowded freeways and residential neighborhoods, his passenger took off her clothes and orally took control of Martz' other joystick ... if you catch our drift.

The camera rolled for 45 minutes, though the flight was longer. It begins with Puma topless on the tarmac at Montgomery Field. Puma says the in-flight entertainment was a way to "compensate" Martz for allowing his chopper to be used for a porno shoot in a nearby hangar.

Martz has had his pilot's license suspended twice and revoked twice, but he's still flying -- at least for now.

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Registration N90943, Clipper Sovereign Of The Skies, was an around the world flight originating in Philadelphia that flew eastbound with several stops before arriving in San Francisco. On the evening of October 15, 1956 it departed Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii on its final leg to San Francisco at 8:26pm HST. After passing the half way point after 1:00am the number 1 engine began overspeeding and could no longer be controlled. The crew decided to cut fuel to the engine. The crew was unable to feather the prop. After the engine shut down the prop began to windmill in the airstream causing excessive drag. The crew calculated with the additional drag they no longer had sufficient fuel to reach San Francisco or return to Honolulu. At this time the United States Coast Guard maintained a ship at Ocean Station November between Hawaii and the California coast. The crew contacted the USCG Pontchartrain and advised them they were making preparations to ditch the aircraft at sea. The plane was flown to the Pontchartrain's location and orbited overhead until daylight. At 6:15am the plane was ditched at sea in sight of the Pontchartrain at 30°2'N 140°9'W. All 31 on board survived the successful ditching and were rescued by the Coast Guard before the last pieces of wreckage sank at 6:32am.

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Go On Board Air Force One for an in-depth tour and get inside access to top secret missions.

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Watch as the biggest airliner in the world lands in some extreme crosswinds! (This video is from Iceland. Anyone care to take a whack at translating the narration into English for us?)

A Translation, Contributed by Hordur Ingolfsson:

This video was shot at Keflavik international airport during “practice” landings.

Here goes the translation:

“Not every day we see the biggest passenger airplane in the world land in Iceland, bla bla bla, but today the Airbus 380 was practicing crosswind test landings at Keflavik Airport. Test conditions were 'ideal', with a steady wind blowing 35 to 45 knots. After only a short stop, the aircraft went up again for repeated approach and test landings that all ended happily. It was amazing to see how this big aircraft handled took on the elements and such strong wind, weighing at about 5 times more than B757 common in Keflavik airport, or 560.000 kilos. The A380 can take up to 500-600 passengers, bla bla bla.”

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This is a slide show of (mostly airline) crashes over the years, set to music. Quite interesting. Contributed by Max Barz.

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Great video, shows what thugs the TSA really are.

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United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight operated by United Airlines between Denver and Philadelphia via Chicago. On 19 July 1989, the Douglas DC-10 (Registration N1819U) suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine which destroyed all three of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. With no controls working except the power levers for the two remaining engines, it broke up during an emergency landing on the runway at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 110 of its 285 passengers and one of the 11 crew members.

Owing to the skill of the crew and a DC-10 instructor pilot, 175 passengers and 10 crew members survived the crash. The disaster is famous within the aviation community as a textbook example of successful Crew Resource Management, due to the effective use of all the resources available aboard the plane for help during the emergency.

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Indian Airlines Flight 814 (abbreviated IC-814) was a flight that was to fly from Kathmandu, Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport to Delhi, India's Indira Gandhi International Airport. It was hijacked by five Pakistan nationals on Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24, 1999, shortly after the aircraft entered Indian airspace at about 5:30 p.m. Indian Standard Time. The hijackers stabbed 25-year-old Rupin Katyal, who later died of his injuries. Ultimately, the plane landed in Afghanistan, where the hijackers agreed to release their hostages in exchange for the release of three Muslim extremists.

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Air Florida Flight 90, an Air Florida flight of a Boeing 737-222 airliner, crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1982 immediately after takeoff in a severe snowstorm from Washington National Airport in Arlington County, Virginia.

The aircraft carried 74 passengers and five crew members when it crashed during the failed takeoff attempt. All but five occupants died. The aircraft struck the 14th Street Bridge, which carries Interstate Highway 395 between Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia. It crushed seven occupied vehicles on the bridge and destroyed 97 feet of guard rail before it plunged through the ice into the Potomac River. The crash occurred less than two miles from the White House and within view of both the Jefferson Memorial and The Pentagon.

The accident killed 78 people, including four motorists on the 14th Street Bridge. A few survivors were rescued from the icy river by civilians and professionals; President Ronald Reagan commended these acts during his State of the Union speech a few days later. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause of the accident was pilot error. The pilots failed to switch on the engines' internal anti-icing equipment, used reverse thrust in a snow storm prior to take-off, and failed to abort takeoff per FAA regulations, even after detecting a power problem while taxiing and visually identifying ice and snow buildup on the wings.

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Early American Airways promotional film (1920's) with twin engine Curtiss Condor airplanes showing plane interiors and passengers, airport facilities, pilots and cockpit, map with destinations at that time, chart showing passenger growth from 1928 to 1933.Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

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New video from the Coast Guard shows the US Airways jet crash-landing (ditching) into the Hudson River.

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Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

On Wednesday 21 December 1988, the aircraft flying this route—a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas—was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, south Scotland, were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town, bringing total fatalities to 270.

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Ditching occurs at about 2:00 into the video.

(Video courtesy of Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service)
New York--The Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board released Coast Guard footage today of the U.S. Airways passenger plane as it conducted an emergency landing into the Hudson River Jan. 15, 2009.

The Coast Guard is conducting a safety zone around the plane, which is now located at Battery Park City, N.Y., while a commercial salvage team is working to remove the plane from the water.
The Coast Guard, New York Police and Fire Departments, New York Waterways and Circle Line ferry rescue teams launched a multi-asset response yesterday when the plane ditched onto the Hudson River, at approximately 3:30 p.m.

Upon initial notification, Coast Guard Sector New York launched a fleet of small rescue boats and the 87-foot Coast Guard Cutter Ridley was diverted to the scene. The Coast Guard Cutter Katherine Walker also arrived on scene to assist in the search and rescue efforts and enforcement of the safety zones.

Three Coast Guard helicopters from Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., and one from Air Station Cape Cod, Mass., worked closely with New York City Police air assets to provide aerial support.

The video was captured by Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service. The purpose of a VTS is to provide active monitoring and navigational advice for vessels in particularly confined and busy waterways. There are two main types of VTS, surveillance and non-surveillance.

Surveillance systems consist of one or more land-based sensors
(including radar, Automated Identification Systems and closed circuit television sites), which output their signals to a central location where operators monitor and manage vessel traffic movement. Non-surveillance systems consist of one or more reporting points at which ships are required to report their identity, course, speed, and other data to the monitoring authority.

The Coast Guard operates 12 Vessel Traffic Centers (VTC): Prince William Sound, Puget Sound, Valdez, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles/Long Beach, Houston-Galveston, Berwick Bay, Louisville, Saint Mary's River, Port Arthur, Tampa, and New York.

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The 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision occurred on 12 November 1996 when Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 (SV 763), a Boeing 747-168B en route from New Delhi, India, to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, collided in mid-air with Air Kazakhstan Flight 1907 (9Y 1907), an Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Shymkent, Kazakhstan to New Delhi, over the village of Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India. All 349 people on board both flights were killed, making it the deadliest mid-air collision to date.

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Recording of a Tuninter ATR 72 Ditching 19 miles of Palermo when the plane ran out of fuel August 6th 2005 ,The ATR 72 was on its way to Tunisia when the accident occurred. The reason it ran out of fuel was the maintenance people had fitted the wrong fuel gauge in the plane. They had fitted a ATR 42s Gauge in a ATR 72. 16 people died in the accident.

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This NTSB animation shows details of the crash of FedEx Flight 647 on December 18, 2003 in Memphis, Tennessee.

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The investigation found that when departing from Tunis on the Tunis-Bari route taken before Flight 1153, the captain found that the plane's fuel level seemed to have increased, but he did not find a refueling slip. The captain took off for Bari without confirming the existence of the refueling slip; there was no slip because the plane was not refueled. In Bari the plane took fuel to a level where the incorrect indicator showed 2,700 kilograms. The correct indicator would have shown 540 kilograms for the Bari-Djerba route. Giuseppe Caldarelli, an investigator, said that the ATR could have reached Palermo with the tail wind. During a two engine flame out crews can feather the propellers to change the angle that the wind hits the propellers, so the plane could glide for a longer period of time. The Tuninter 1153 crew did not feather the propellers. When the second engine failed, the crew did not lower the aircraft's speed to match the ATR 72's optimal gliding speed, in which the aircraft could glide the furthest. A simulator pilot at ATR's facility in France tested the same scenario; in his test he could get the ATR 72 to Palermo by feathering the propellers and reducing the speed to the optimal gliding speed. The simulator pilots were not in imminent danger, and they had chosen to glide. The captain of the ATR did not know that his aircraft was out of fuel and focused on trying to restart the engines; the procedure to do so does not include feathering the propellers. When that did not work, the captain focused on selecting a place to ditch the aircraft. The captain had no instruments and experienced radio interruptions. Before impact Gharbi raised the ATR's nose by nine degrees so that the plane glided across the water surface instead of hitting the ocean head on; this likely allowed the survivors to escape the aircraft. The final investigative report suggested that airlines train their pilots to deal with unusual situations.

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A funny remake of “Leaving on a Jet Plane” involving the flying experience nowadays (especially TSA experience). From the Bar and Grill Singers a group of practicing attorneys out of Austin Texas who sing parodies, particularly lampooning their own profession.

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A super-high-speed video shot of poultry (birds) being fired into full-powered jet engines to test out what would happen in real life if a bird was sucked into a jet engine.

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Three beautiful airline stewardesses live out their most provocative and wild fantasies during their adventurous flight in this erotic cult classic. Good little girls who want to be BAD!

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Here's the cause of the accidental discharge of a Flight Deck Officer's firearm.
www.crimefilenews.com

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Lubbock, Texas - NewsChannel 11 is continuing to follow a developing situation at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, where a plane crashed Tuesday at 4:37 a.m. in a freezing mist.

The airplane is reportedly a FedEx ATR-42, which is a cargo twin-turboprop aircraft. Officials say the plane originated at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport, and came down in Lubbock at the end of the runway, veered off and caught fire.

Airport officials say the weather was not a factor in the crash.

Airport first responders are joined by the Lubbock Police and Fire Departments. Firefighters are continuing to monitor hot spots.

FedEx officials say both pilots are safe, but were taken to University Medical Center for a complete evaluation.

* 52 year old male from Portland Oregon is in satisfactory condition.
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26 year old female from Tacoma Washington was treated and released.

The aircraft is reportedly between the taxiway and a runway.

FedEx flights intended for Lubbock are now being rerouted to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The airport was closed immediately after the crash, but has since resumed some operations. At least seven flights were delayed, and more are possible.

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On 9/22/05, a JetBlue Airbus pilot couldn't get his nose gear to rotate into landing position. This video of the safe and successful landing at Los Angeles International airport shows the best possible outcome to every passenger's worst nightmare.

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Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered plane flight which crashed on 8 September 1989 off the coast of Denmark 30 km north of Hirtshals. All the 50 passengers and 5 crew members onboard the aircraft perished, making it the deadliest civilian airline disaster involving an all-Norwegian airline company.

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This video shows the flight of an Italian Magni M-16 TurboCopter in conditions that would keep most GA aircraft on the ground. Shot on a blustery spring day in Perryville, MO, with winds of 35 knots and higher, this 585 pound gyrocopter shows off its stability and controlability with Mark Shook at the controls.

A note from Mark Shook:

"What makes this video even more amazing is, I was flying . While I am an experienced fixed wing pilot, and also have a Rotorcraft Gyroplane Rating, I have only 10 hours total in a Magni . I seldom get the opportunity to fly a gyro, and those were my first landings in over a year, and with a 35 knot wind. (What you did not see were the out-takes where my wife was being blown around by the wind and could not hold the camera steady. The steady shots were taken when she let the van block the wind, or out the window from inside our car.) If a low time gyro pilot like me can fly it in such a wind, I say the machine can easily handle a windy day."

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GE90-115B Gas Turbine Jet Engine Testing and Evaluation

I takes a lot of money and time to test as thoroughly as the FAA, military, and GE require. More money and time and lives are saved by finding most problems before they become much larger.

Some claim US gas turbine aircraft engines can't take turbulence or odd angles of attack. The claim is clearly false, if you note the shot of the crosswind testing fans. The crosswind fans can simulate hurricane winds at any angle. The fan and the engine can be pivoted to simulate any angle.


Typically it is some former soviet block people that make those claims. They think just because they carelessly showboat fighters at air shows doing extreme AOA, that they are the only ones that can do so. The fact is that we don't make a habit of showboating at air shows because it is risky. The former soviet block has crashed a lot of fighters showboating extreme AOAs. The fact is any time you move a gas turbine with reverse airflow your risk of a flameout increases dramatically. The exhaust can recirculate back into the intake the result can be a backfire or flameout or just reduced power; all can be fatal if you are flying with no margin of error at an air show.


Normally; US pilots are told to avoid doing things that can cause cavitation or recirculation, particularly wile airborne. They are tested at higher altitude in remote areas to give a good chance of recovery, and restart, and if nothing else ejection.

There are some exceptions (sometimes turbofans and turboprops), but it still can be a little risky to the engine.

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According to CNN:

Images from Tokyo's Narita airport showed the scene from the cargo plane bursting into flames.

Strong winds may have played a role in the crash, said Masaru Fujisaki, an airport official. The status of the pilot and co-pilot was not immediately known.

Video from the landing showed the plane bouncing at least twice on the runway before bursting into flames. The fire destroyed the aircraft.

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This is the worst mid air collision in aviation history, watch as two airlines crash into one another killing hundreds of lives. The crash involved Air Kazakhstan Flight 1907 Saudi Arabian Airlines 763.

Note: Sorry for the bad quality, it was all I could find.

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Rejected Take Off certification of the Airbus A340-600. Max take off weight. High speed.

Pay special attention to the video starting at time 4:21.

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Notes from Sky 1 programme in Jan 06* Airspace over Britain is the busiest in the world.

•Air traffic controllers are over-stressed.

•Sioux City 1989 Sioux City, 1989, 111 died, 184 survived

•Delhi, 1996, 349 died

•Uberlingen July 2002: 71 died over forest

•3 weeks later, 2 routine flights had a near miss by 7 seconds

•Britain’s last mid-air collision was at Northolt in 1948.

•Near misses are increasing over Britain

•Destruction that many people do not understand would result: deaths on ground and in air; burning wreckage falling over wide area, possibly urban.

•Air traffic set to double by 2020s.

•On a busy day ATC (Air Traffic Control) responsible for hundreds/thousands movements.

•Controllers say aircraft travel is definitely seeing increase in near misses. Already, controllers pray that no aircraft will contact them for guidance - overload of logical thinking results in inability of controllors to handle the planes they are dealing with.

•NATS controls most of the UK sky - public / private partnership. In the last ten years, safety record has improved: 10m flights p.a. without a single event.

•Future growth will see £1bn investment for increased safety and capacity to take 1m more flights by 2013.

•But the CAA says 20 near misses in 2005.

•ATCs concerned about safety. Arrivals and departures travel on the same latitude; i.e. same airway. Real concerns as air traffic increases.

•Could emergency services cope with the horror of burns and crush injuries, some people thrown from plane, impact speeds of 300mph, 15000 foot plunges with conscious passengers at low altitude, burning wreckage raining down on urban area 4 miles square, aviation fuel fully laden burning across wide area, houses destroyed, cars smashed apart in road, road blockages, total chaos, horrific lacerations, body parts scattered?

•In Delhi 1996 collision, bodies were unrecognisable.

•Thousands of articles would need to be recorded.

•ATCs will now have to meet Govt targets with fines of up to £24m p.a.

•Targets of stress leading to mistakes.

•There’s now evidence of overload increase. If it becomes the norm, that’s not sustainable. Something has to give.

•TACS (auto pilot system) now installed on planes carrying more than 10 people, and on cargo planes. The only way to cope with ATC in future is to take out some of the human element.

•A lot of vested interests after an air accident would come into play.

•Very strong case to put ATC in charge of computer. NATS doesn’t agree, saying UK air safety is the best in the world (of course that can change!). Continual increase in demand won’t be met by increased methods.

We should be having a debate about the future of ATC.

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Caught On Tape: Newly released surveillance camera video from the ConEd building on the Hudson shows the crash landing of U.S. Airways Flight 1549. Obtained by CBS News' Pat Milton.

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NTSB Identification: DCA04MA045.

The docket is stored in the Docket Management System (DMS). Please contact Records Management Division
Scheduled 14 CFR operation of Executive Airlines (D.B.A. American Eagle)

Accident occurred Sunday, May 09, 2004 in San Juan, PR

Probable Cause Approval Date: 12/8/2005

Aircraft: ATR 72, registration: N438AT

Injuries: 1 Serious, 19 Minor, 6 Uninjured.

The Safety Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm. The Aircraft Accident Report number is NTSB/AAR-05/02.

On May 9, 2004, about 1450 Atlantic standard time, Executive Airlines (doing business as American Eagle) flight 5401, an Avions de Transport Regional 72-212, N438AT, skipped once, bounced hard twice, and then crashed at Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The airplane came to a complete stop on a grassy area about 217 feet left of the runway 8 centerline and about 4,317 feet beyond the runway threshold. The captain was seriously injured; the first officer, 2 flight attendants, and 16 of the 22 passengers received minor injuries; and the remaining 6 passengers received no injuries. The airplane was substantially damaged. The airplane was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 as a scheduled passenger flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
the captain's failure to execute proper techniques to recover from the bounced landings and his subsequent failure to execute a go-around.

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This video provides information about ice-contaminated horizontal stabilzers. It presents a physical description of the tailplane icing problem, symptoms of ice contamination and suggested recovery procedures. This video was produced as a result of insights gained from the NASA/FAA Tailplane Icing Program.

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This amazing video was contributed by Geno Becker:

"For those who want to fly to London City Airport, a cross wind adds to the excitement (in addition to the short runway and steep approach). The airport itself is located on the river Thames in downtown London, and gives business people very quick access to the city. The Millennium Dome is in the left side of the picture."

"The runway is only 1199 meters long, which is very short in airline runway terms, thus it is only suitable for aircraft with good STOL (short take-off and landing) performance. It also has a 5.5 degree glide slope, as opposed to the conventional 3 degree slope to most runways. The BAE 146 is the main jet type to operate into the place. Most other aircraft are turbo props etc."

"When doing the approach you have to be fully configured, i.e., gear down, full flaps and speed brakes before you commence descent from 3000 feet...or you won't get stopped before reaching the far end of the runway. If it doesn't look or feel right it is generally a good idea to give it away and have another attempt. For whatever reason, this flight crew decided to press, but they DID make the first turn off the runway. If nothing else, it's a testament to the toughness of the BAE 146 airframe. The pilots handled it like a dirtbike!"

Additional Info Contributed by John Forster:

"I would just like to update the wording on this video clip. Everything is dead right apart from the runway length, which is 1,508 m with a Landing Distance Available ( LDA) of 1,319 m, still quite short. There is also a two pairs of high intensity lights placed either side of the runway at 336 m from the touchdown point. These mark the end of the touchdown zone and a missed approach is required if the aircraft is not down by these lights. I work at LCY and was watching this landing."

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Got a big fire to put out? You *need* this plane!

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Music video by Kate Ryan performing Ella Elle L A with 2N Productions [Producer], Oliver Sommer [Video Director], Oliver Sommer [Video Producer].
(C) 2008 ARS Entertainment Belgium (A Division Of Universal Music Belgium)

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United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight operated by United Airlines between Denver and Philadelphia via Chicago. On 19 July 1989, the Douglas DC-10 (Registration N1819U) suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine which destroyed all three of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. With no controls working except the power levers for the two remaining engines, it broke up during an emergency landing on the runway at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 110 of its 285 passengers and one of the 11 crew members.

Owing to the skill of the crew and a DC-10 instructor pilot, 175 passengers and 10 crew members survived the crash. The disaster is famous within the aviation community as a textbook example of successful Crew Resource Management, due to the effective use of all the resources available aboard the plane for help during the emergency.

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Frank Abagnale is the real life con man who wrote Catch Me if You Can. Here he is on the lecture circuit, sharing his life of crime in a most amusing fashion. Both clips combined are about 38 minutes.

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Remote Control Airbus A380 difficult takeoff.

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Nothing like a 60-degree climb-out to keep unruly passengers in their seats...

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NTSB animation of this mystifying rudder failure accident over New York.

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A Continental Airlines plane that lost a wheel in a dramatic touchdown captured on tape by a Toronto-area man has been repaired and yesterday returned to shuttling passengers in New York.

Investigators with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and those with the plane's Downsview manufacturer, Bombardier, probed Tuesday's incident at Buffalo International Airport and cleared the Q400 for service.

The jaw-dropping, 37-second video was obtained by the Toronto Sun from a passenger on the flight, who didn't want to be identified.

Yesterday, it was aired on major U.S. news outlets, including ABC, NBC and CBS, and was the lead item on the New York Post website.

The Canadian-made Q400 Bombardier turbo-prop, which has had a recent association with technical glitches, was the aircraft that crashed near Buffalo in February of this year, killing 50 people.

The video shows Flight 3268 -- with 73 people on board and operated by Colgan Airlines -- landing Tuesday when ashes and debris fell off the wheel as it was lowered. Parts of the landing gear and a right wheel could be seen falling off.

Audio from the Buffalo air control tower suggested the pilot wasn't aware the wheel had detached until told by a controller, who shut down a runway so the parts could be found by ground workers. The plane was towed to a parking spot.

FAA spokesman Jim Peters said a hydraulic line leading to a main gear was cut and part of a hub assembly of the landing gear was missing. The parts were found in grass along the runway.

"This is a straight incident where a tire came off an aircraft," Peters said from New York City yesterday. "Some parts were lost from a hub assembly."

He said the aircraft was back on its scheduled Newark-to-Buffalo run yesterday.

Bombardier spokesman John Arnone said the parts that fell off are being sent to the manufacturer to determine what happened.

"This is a rare and unusual incident," Arnone said. "We are trying to determine the root cause of the incident."

He said the wheel that came off was recently replaced by technicians.

Robert Deluce, founder of Toronto's Porter Airlines that has several Q400s in its fleet, called the plane a "safe and reliable" aircraft, with a great safety record.

"We have the highest maintenance and reliability record of any Q400," Deluce said yesterday. "There is no indication that this is anything other than a localized incident.

"There is no indication that this is a fleet problem."

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United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight operated by United Airlines between Denver and Philadelphia via Chicago. On 19 July 1989, the Douglas DC-10 (Registration N1819U) suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine which destroyed all three of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. With no controls working except the power levers for the two remaining engines, it broke up during an emergency landing on the runway at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 110 of its 285 passengers and one of the 11 crew members.

Owing to the skill of the crew and a DC-10 instructor pilot, 175 passengers and 10 crew members survived the crash. The disaster is famous within the aviation community as a textbook example of successful Crew Resource Management, due to the effective use of all the resources available aboard the plane for help during the emergency.

Duration: 00:09:55 / Uploaded: 2009-10-15 18:48:25

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United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight operated by United Airlines between Denver and Philadelphia via Chicago. On 19 July 1989, the Douglas DC-10 (Registration N1819U) suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine which destroyed all three of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. With no controls working except the power levers for the two remaining engines, it broke up during an emergency landing on the runway at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 110 of its 285 passengers and one of the 11 crew members.

Owing to the skill of the crew and a DC-10 instructor pilot, 175 passengers and 10 crew members survived the crash. The disaster is famous within the aviation community as a textbook example of successful Crew Resource Management, due to the effective use of all the resources available aboard the plane for help during the emergency.

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This video shows a Douglas DC-3 painted in Piedmont Airlines livery landing on the grass at Ferrell's Fly-In on Lake Norman. Contributed by Ken Roberts (and others).

Added Info from Eric Schmidt, of the Carolinas Aviation Museum, Charlotte, NC:

"I love that video of a DC-3 on a grass strip. I recognized it right away. It was built in '42 as a C-47 and sold right after the war as surplus. It stayed with several companies and then, in the late '70s, was bought by Piedmont Airlines, who had it converted to a DC-3, as seen on the video. They used it for PR, incentive flights and employee excursions. Piedmont wanted a DC-3 since that's what they started the airline with. When US Airways bought them out, of course they didn't want it and put it on the market. Thanks to the generosity of many people we bought it and still fly it to air shows as shown."

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Date: June 26, 1988
Time: 14:45
Location: Habsheim, France
Operator: Air France
Flight number: 296Q
Route: Basel - Basel
AC type: Airbus A320-111
Aboard: 136 (passengers: 130, crew:6)
Fatalities: 3 (passengers: 3, crew:0)

Summary: The plane was scheduled to perform a series of fly-bys at an air show. The plane was to descend to 100 ft. altitude with landing gear and flaps extended. The automatic go-around protection was inhibited for the maneuver. During the maneuver, the plane descended thru 100 ft. to an altitude of 30 feet and hit trees at the end of the runway. The aircraft was totally destroyed by the successive impacts and violent fire which followed. The pilot allowed the aircraft to descend through 100 ft. at slow speed and maximum angle of attack and was late in applying go-around power. Unfamiliarity of the crew with the landing field and lack of planning for the flyby.

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This pilot demonstrates an absolutely picture-perfect gear-up landing, caught on tape by the media.

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Home video of yet another in a long series of Airbus nosegear extension failures. Here's the story, from contributor Peter Metz:
"This shows FG flight 709, bound from Kabul to Dubai, which left the Kabul Airport with 261 passengers on board. After departure the pilot had a problem with the front wheel gear and could not retract it. Instead of proceeding to Dubai Airport (flight time 2:30 minutes), with all relevant security measures he decided to land back at Kabul Airport."

"Capt. Abdul Rahman asked the tower to investigate the problem. Kabul Airport sent an ICRC plane to investigate the problem from beneath the aircraft. After the problem was located, the captain released most of all the full tanks of kerosene and made a final approach at Kabul Airport. At this time there were still about 30,000 mines lying around beside the apron."

"After the plane came off the runway nothing happened, and the fire brigades went to rescue the aircraft and passengers. The plane came to stand about 50 meters beside the runway without any problems. All passengers escaped the aircraft safely. Capt. Rahman got out of the plane, had a cigarette smoke, and took all the passengers to Dubai in a second plane approximately an hour later. ISAF than pulled the plane from beside the apron, stretched the wheel straight, and pulled it to the maintenance department."

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According to CNN:

Images from Tokyo's Narita airport showed the scene from the cargo plane bursting into flames.

Strong winds may have played a role in the crash, said Masaru Fujisaki, an airport official. The status of the pilot and co-pilot was not immediately known.

Video from the landing showed the plane bouncing at least twice on the runway before bursting into flames. The fire destroyed the aircraft.

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This 757-200 has been fitted with Rolls-Royce engines, which clearly develop an impressive amount of power. Filmed by Erin Johnson.

Additional Info, from Andrew Burfield:

"This Boeing 757-200 of No.40 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, is performing a 350 knot pass at 100 ft, before displaying the 757’s awesome power-to-weight ratio with a 45 degree climb out to 7,500ft. The video was taken at RNZAF Base Whenuapai, Auckland, New Zealand, probably at the 2004 Air Force Open Day."

New 6/8/08 Info from Erin Johnson -- the videographer who filmed the departure:

Basically, what has been written is correct regarding the height, speed and climbout angle, however it wasn't at an airshow. It was a private function for past and present members of 40 Squadron RNZAF and at the end of the day there was a small flying display by the 757 and a C130 Hercules. 40 Sqn operate both types of aircraft. For your info: The RNZAF purchased their two 757's from Transavia and we started flying them as soon as they were re-painted and delivered. No modifictions were done to them, so in effect, this display is from a standard 757-200 with RR RB211 engines fitted. Both 757's are now at Mobile, Alabama having some extensive mods done to them - including the fitting of a large cargo door in the front left side, strengthening the forward section floor for loading of freight pallets, fitting of airstairs which operate from the rear entry door (these are really long as the tail end is a long way off the ground) and the fitting of a crew entry ladder.

The large upwards opening cargo door is a huge job. Normally when 757's get converted to cargo planes, that's all they can carry is the emergency oxygen system, reading lights, air ducts and everything else in the overhead panels are removed in total. In our Mod, we're getting a combi fit. This means there are numerous combinations available to use: part cargo, part passenger in various layouts or a full passenger fit. This means that the overhead panels need to remain - even on the door. So it'll be interesting to see how everything has been wired and plumbed. I had heard talk of getting the engines uprated but can't confirm if this is happening. The first aircraft was recently finished and is now entering the flight test evaluation phase of the project once some smaller niggles have been rectified.

We're looking forward to getting our two jets backs. They're the only ones our Airforce has !! Regards, Erin.

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Another great compilation of crosswind landings, with some new ones thrown in.

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The first time we watched this video, we thought it was going to show a plane crash. However, after about 30 seconds, you can make out the TINY little airstrip on one of the nearby mountains, and it follows through to an uneventful landing. According to contributor Benoit Langen, this airport is called Meribel (LFHM), is ithn e French Alps -- and you need a special qualification to fly there.

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A compiltaion of some nice crosswind landings into a tricky runyway requiring a relatively short approach.

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Aircrafts funny moments.... Enjoy!

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When a Piper Arrow has a stuck right main landing gear that won't come down, friends devise an innovative (and potentially suicidal) solution.

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The Concorde, loaded with fuel for the trans-Atlantic flight, went down shortly after takeoff, crashing near the town of Gonesse, about 10 miles north of Paris, at 4:44 p.m. local time.
All 109 people on board were killed. Three children were among the passengers. Four people in a local hotel on died, with a dozen people on the ground injured.
A French judge ordered Continental Airlines and five people to stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the horrific crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people eight years ago in France, a prosecutor said July 2008.
Two of the people to be tried are employees of Continental, the prosecutor in the Paris suburb of Pontoise said in a statement.

Two others were employed by Aerospatiale, the maker of Concorde and the precursor of plane-maker Airbus. The fifth is an employee of the French civilian aviation authority.

The No2 main gear wheel tyre is missing after the explosive burst and that un-burnt fuel is flowing from the ruptured tank. A few feet from the tank around the engine area the fuel appears to be being ignited from the fuel that is already burning. The initial cause of the ignition is believed to be from sparks derived from shorted wiring in the landing gear bay area.

French investigators blamed a titanium strip on the runway from a Continental Airlines DC-10, which took off just before the luxury jet.

John Taylor, a mechanic who allegedly fitted the non-standard strip is to stand trial for manslaughter. The titanium strip caused one of the Concorde's tires to burst, which sent debris flying into its fuel tanks. Continental's chief of maintenance Stanley Ford will also stand trial for manslaughter.
The French judicial inquiry also determined the tanks lacked sufficient protection from shock and that Concorde's makers had been aware of the problem since 1979.
Former Concorde officials Henri Perrier, 79, and Jacques Herubel, 73, are accused of knowing about problems with the jets and failing to detect and fix them. Claude Frantzen, 71, director of technical services at the civil aviation authority DGAC from 1970 to 1994, was also ordered to stand trial.



A special thanks to Youtube channel tgj1992 for this detailed description of events On 25 July 2000.

Previous to Concorde taking off that fateful day was a continental dc-10 headed for Washington. It was a metal strip from inside one of its engines that was to trigger the catastrophically unfortunate series of events. As Concorde was reaching take off speed it hit this metal strip puncturing the tyre of wheel number two on the port landing assembly. Pieces of rubber then began to ricochet of the undercarriage, soon piercing fuel tank cover 5. A major leak ensues and it is concluded that the kerosene is ignited due to the extreme heat experienced around the wheel assembly. Engines one and two are severely affected by the hot gases emanating from the burning kerosene which are continually being ingested, and they rapidly lose power. The plane is enveloped in flames and sufficient control is lost. The plane crashes and All 109 people on board are killed. Once a conclusion has been reached as to the cause of the incident, appropriate modifications are added such as stronger tyre's which are able to withstand piercing objects at take off speed and in the unlikely occurrence that one does get punctured kevlar sheilds are added to the lining of the fuel tank covers.

And also, thanks to Batteryjoe for his letter: "...there are many more factors which contributed to this right of passage in aviation development. For starters, President Chirac's 747 crossed Concorde's path necessitating a premature rotation and consequent deleterious effects on Concorde's ability to remain airworthy. Engine two was shut down by accident, the ship was 6 tonnes overweight, and the spacer for one of

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China Airlines Flight 611 Callsign: Dynasty 611 (CAL611, CI611) was a Boeing 747 on a regular scheduled flight from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport in Taoyuan to Chek Lap Kok International Airport in Hong Kong on 25 May 2002. The aircraft broke into pieces in mid-air and crashed, killing all aboard.

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First Officer John Pinneke’s first day on the job. He meets his fellow employees including Flight Attendant Dan Wishbone ... who swears he’s not gay. Created by Big Fantastic. Cockpit is a 60Frames original series. For more information, please visit us at http://www.60frames.com.

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From AirSafe.com, an early analysis of the events that happened on that brief flight leading to the ditching into the Hudson river.

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Air Florida Flight 90, an Air Florida flight of a Boeing 737-222 airliner, crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1982 immediately after takeoff in a severe snowstorm from Washington National Airport in Arlington County, Virginia.

The aircraft carried 74 passengers and five crew members when it crashed during the failed takeoff attempt. All but five occupants died. The aircraft struck the 14th Street Bridge, which carries Interstate Highway 395 between Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia. It crushed seven occupied vehicles on the bridge and destroyed 97 feet of guard rail[3] before it plunged through the ice into the Potomac River. The crash occurred less than two miles from the White House and within view of both the Jefferson Memorial and The Pentagon.

The accident killed 78 people, including four motorists on the 14th Street Bridge. A few survivors were rescued from the icy river by civilians and professionals; President Ronald Reagan commended these acts during his State of the Union speech a few days later. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause of the accident was pilot error. The pilots failed to switch on the engines' internal anti-icing equipment, used reverse thrust in a snow storm prior to take-off, and failed to abort takeoff per FAA regulations, even after detecting a power problem while taxiing and visually identifying ice and snow buildup on the wings.

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Incident is a Boeing 737 landing at Birmingham, UK with the right landing gear missing, after tearing off the starboard gear when attempting to land at East Midlands Airport in bad weather. The pilot missed the runway and landed in the grass, doing extensive damage to the aircraft. He was able to fly some 40 miles to Birmingham, where the incident was caught on video by the West Midlands Police helicopter.

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Hitler gets news that his order of 787's is going to be delayed again.

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A post-maintenance engine test shows that they mechanics haven't quite found the problem yet!

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Airliners usually use no more than 2/3rds of the runway to take off. Watch in amazement as this fully-loaded Russian cargo jet takes off on a hot, calm Australian day -- and uses every last inch of runway!

Added Info From Michelle Robertson:

"The video 'Illushin Using It All' was taken from the control tower at Canberra Airport (in Australia) -- which from memory is 1888 feet MSL. Interestingly, they have now extended the end of the runway that the plane is taking off towards by another 400 meters I believe. To allow even take-offs with a 5 hour fuel load on a 100 degree day!"

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Courtesy: National Transportation Safety Board

This three-dimensional (3-D) animated reconstruction shows the last 2 minutes of the February 12, 2009, accident involving a Bombardier DHC-8-400, N200WQ, operated by of Colgan Air, Inc., which crashed about 5 nautical miles northeast of Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, Buffalo, New York, while on an instrument landing system approach to runway 23. During the approach, a pitchup motion occurred, followed by a left roll and then a right roll. During these maneuvers, both the stick shaker and stick pusher were activated, and the speed decreased. After further pitch and roll excursions, the airplane entered a steep descent from which it did not recover.
The animation shows excerpts from the flight data recorder (FDR), the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcript, recorded radar data, and aircraft performance data. It does not depict the weather or visibility conditions at the time of the accident. The animation does not include audio.
The upper portion of the animation shows a 3-D model of the airplane and the airplanes motions during the accident sequence. In this area, selected content from the CVR transcript or other annotations are superimposed as text at the time that the event occurred. All times (in eastern standard time) are shown on the right side of the screen.
The lower portion of the animation depicts instruments and indicators, which display selected FDR or calculated parameters. The instruments and indications are shown in three sections, which are (from left to right):
•Airspeed, airspeed tape, low speed cue, attitude indicator showing pitch and roll attitude, altitude, altitude tape, rate of climb, and heading;
•Stick shaker and stick pusher indicated as text, control wheel/column icon depicting the control wheel (rotating right or left) and control column (moving up or down) inputs, and an indicator showing rudder pedal inputs; and
•The power lever and condition lever as indicators, the flap handle selection as an indicator, and auto pilot status and gearhandle position indicated as text.

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Wishbone decorates the cockpit for Christmas and Captain Gaskins is bored and detours Flight 69 in episode 2 of ... Cockpit.

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Here's another clip from the amazing "Big Rocks & Long Props", sent in by Wup Winn, showing a Super Cub operating in almost unbelievable conditions. See the whole video at www.akbushwheel.com .

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Professional 3D animation, accurately reconstructed to match the event.

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While several amateur animations are available on YouTube, these were made in flight simulators or Google Earth. You won't find a better, more realistic, more compelling, or more accurate depiction of this extraordinary event anywhere else on the net.

US Airways flight 1549 made an emergency crash-landing into the Hudson River on Thursday, January 15, 2009. All 155 people on board were brought to safety. The miraculous landing took place after the plane struck at least one bird upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Watch the video to see for yourself what really happened: the take-off, flight-path and - crucially - the landing and rescue of passengers.

The event has been accurately reconstructed by Scene Systems Inc., 3D Legal Animators based in California, USA. Scene Systems turns complex scene data and expert testimony into powerful 3D animation that helps legal professionals prove their case in court.

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Contributed by Divine Wind.

American Eagle Airlines (AEA) - A look back on the Saab. Retired at the end of 2008.

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Comedian Jeff Dunham with his stage puppet Achmed.

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An aborted landing nearly goes terribly wrong in a howling crosswind.

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Sky King on the beaches of Pensacola Florida. Music is the song, Sky King, performed by Kris Kristofferson.

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Amateur video showing the crew shinnying down the escape rope as the plane burns, following the landing accident on December 18, 2003.

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Boeing 777 and 747 crosswind demonstration video.

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Not sure what's happening here (anyone know the story?), but the nose gear of this Beechcraft King Air is caught at the moment of failure during the landing roll-out.

From Greg, a pilot & A&P student:

"Regarding the clip about the 'King Air' nose gear failure, that is actually a Beechcraft (now Raytheon) Model 99 operated by AIRPAC Airlines. The incident happened at Boeing field in Seattle Washington on March 28th, 2006."

"As you can see, the nosewheel separated on landing. The stress on what was left of the gear was too much and it collapsed. At least he got the engines shut down and the props stopped before the collapse. As a result he saved two engines and props."

"The King Air initially had welded nose gear, then went to a stronger forged one. The King Air and the 99 share a great many parts, but I don't know if the nose gear is one of them. Either way, it appears the nose gear failed due to damage incurred after the failure of either the fork, axle, wheel or retaining nut."

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The best of the worst! Lots of funny mistakes made at the airport. None of these pictures is of anything serious, just blunders.

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United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight operated by United Airlines between Denver and Philadelphia via Chicago. On 19 July 1989, the Douglas DC-10 (Registration N1819U) suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine which destroyed all three of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. With no controls working except the power levers for the two remaining engines, it broke up during an emergency landing on the runway at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 110 of its 285 passengers and one of the 11 crew members.

Owing to the skill of the crew and a DC-10 instructor pilot, 175 passengers and 10 crew members survived the crash. The disaster is famous within the aviation community as a textbook example of successful Crew Resource Management, due to the effective use of all the resources available aboard the plane for help during the emergency.

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Picture-perfect gear up landing, with all the breathless narration and jump-cuts removed.

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This is the worst mid air collision in aviation history, watch as two airlines crash into one another killing hundreds of lives. The crash involved Air Kazakhstan Flight 1907 Saudi Arabian Airlines 763.

Note: Sorry for the bad quality, it was all I could find.

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NTSB animation of the departure crash of a Beech 1900 in Charlotte, N.C. on January 8, 2003.

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Guy trying to pilot a small helicopter, unsuccessfully.

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An amazing demonstration of short-field landing bush piloting -- viewed from INSIDE the plane as is lands on an impossibly small gravel bar!

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POLK COUNTY -- The Sun 'n Fun Fly-In started Tuesday and already there were some tense moments in the sky for a pilot headed to the event.

The pilot, Kyle Davis, 22, and his passenger, Joe Surowiec, were flying from Winter Haven to Lakeland Sunday when they experienced engine failure.

Realizing the engine wouldn't cooperate, Davis was able to land the homemade plane safely on Havendale Boulevard.

"The options for me were land on the road or land on the lake," Davis said.

News 13 spoke to Eric Norber, a local aviation expert, who explained Davis performed well given the circumstance.

Norber told News 13 that statistically a plane's engine failure is rare, let alone catching one on camera.

Davis is a part-time flight instructor with 1,300 hours in the skies. His own flight instructor, John Amundsen, calls his roadway landing, incredible.

"Watching that video, he was just awesome," Amundsen said. "I just hope, you know, if I ever have a situation like that, I can be as cool as Kyle was."

Norber said some of the things that could have gone wrong are lack of fuel, fuel contamination and or some sort of engine malfunction.

He also said that many pilots go their whole lives practicing for this type of situation and never experience one.

Both men declined on scene medical care. The plane was not damaged either.

Meanwhile, Sunday's incident didn't scare Davis away from the skies. He plans to fly his own plane to the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In later this week.

As for finding out what caused the engine failure, Norber said it could be months before the FAA or the NTSB issues a final report on exactly what happened.

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A plaine with 76 passengers crashed. A mechanic fault in the right undercarriage caused the plaine the break and sets on fire. Provided by TV2 | Denmark.

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Captain Gaskins wakes up in the cockpit with his ex-girlfriend Trixie, and Pinneke and Wishbone try to cheer up ... the heartsick Gaskins in episode 5 of Cockpit. Cockpit is a new comedy web series about the employees of Mile High Airlines and what really goes on behind that cockpit door. They hate to fly and it shows. Cockpit is a 60Frames original series. For more information, please visit us at http://www.60frames.com.

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Home video of an airliner landing in a storm -- with disastrous results.

22 August 1999; China Airlines MD11; Hong Kong, China: This aircraft was landing in Hong Kong at night and during a storm after a flight from Bangkok. The aircraft struck the runway and came to rest upside down and on fire. All 15 crew members survived, but three of the 300 passengers were killed.

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A neat video compilation of the steps involved with changing a huge jet engine on one of the world's largest airliners.

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A nice compilation of landings at SXM airport (Princess Juliana, St. Marteen

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On May 8, 1978 at about 9:20 p.m., a National Airlines 727 with 52 passengers and 6 crew crashed into Escambia Bay on approach to the Pensacola Airport. Three of the passengers drowned while awaiting rescue.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined the probable cause of this accident was the flightcrew's unprofessionally conducted nonprecision instrument approach; the captain and the crew failed to monitor the descent rate and altitude, and the first officer failed to provide the captain with required altitude and approach performance callouts (each 100 feet below 500 should have been verbally acknowledged). The crew failed to check and utilize all instruments available for altitude awareness, turned off the ground proximity warning system, and failed to configure the aircraft properly and in a timely manner for the approach.

Contributing to the accident was the radar controller's failure to provide advance notice of the start-descent point which accelerated the pace of the crew's cockpit activities after the passage of the final approach fix .

At 920:15, the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) whooper sounded, and the " Pull up, pull up" voice warning from the 727 began. The GPWS warning continued until 9:20:24. During this nine second period only two remarks appeared on the CVR transcript: At 9:20:19, Captain George Kunz said "Did you (get) your thing", and at 9:20:21, First Officer (F/O) Leonard Sanderson said, "Descent rate's keeping it up."

Flight Engineer (F/E) James Stockwell stated that he turned off the GPWS and that he did this in response to what he believed was Captain Kunz's command to turn the system off. He also testified that he believed at the time the aircraft was still above 1,000 feet.

At 9:20:31, F/O Sanderson said, "I... we're down to fifty feet." Two seconds later, the aircraft hit the water.

Captain Kunz said that he misread his altimeter at 500 feet and believed he saw 1,500 feet. He stated that "When that figure got on my mind as I ran my scan after that, I was seeing 400 and 300 and they were 14(00) and 13(00) in my mind. I was looking at the needle instead of looking at the 1,000-foot marker in it. I didn't actually look at the thousand-foot pointer at that time. I just glanced down at the hundred- foot pointer."

F/O Sanderson said that he failed to make the required altitude callouts, because he was never aware of the fact that the aircraft was below 1,000 feet until just before impact.

Source: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report NTSB-AAR-78-13.

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A Southwest flight attendant does his own unique take on the pre-flight instructions and safety information.

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Fatal pilot errors, including the Staines air disaster which resulted in voice recorders being installed in all aircraft

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Classic short-field landing technique, as demonstrated by Steve Root in his Citabria.

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Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (ICAO: GLO 1907, IATA: G3 1907) was a Boeing 737-8EH SFP, registration PR-GTD, on a scheduled passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil to Rio de Janeiro, which collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet on September 29, 2006 over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. All 154 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 737 were killed as the aircraft crashed into an area of dense rainforest, while the Embraer Legacy, despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, landed safely with its seven occupants uninjured.

The accident, which triggered a major crisis in Brazilian civil aviation, was the deadliest in that country's aviation history at the time, surpassing VASP Flight 168, which crashed in 1982 with 137 fatalities near Fortaleza. It was subsequently surpassed by TAM Airlines Flight 3054, which crashed on July 17, 2007 with 199 fatalities.

The accident was investigated by both the Brazilian Air Force CENIPA (Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos) and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), with a final report issued on December 10, 2008. CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by errors committed by both air traffic controllers as well as the Embraer's pilots, while the NTSB determined that all pilots acted properly and were placed on a collision course by a variety of "individual and institutional" air traffic control errors.

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A highly detailed NTSB animation of a landing crash that occurred July 26, 2002, in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Funny TV commercial for Virgin Atlantic

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Cool video of the controversial hybrid P-791 airship by Lockheed Martin.... The Biggest Blimp.

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Authorities are beginning the investigation into the catastrophic plane crash at Madrid's Barajas International Airport. More than 150 deaths are reported.

The crash of the Spanair MD-82 took place just as the aircraft began to lift off, according to published and broadcast accounts.

The plane was operating as Flight JK5022 and bound for the Canary Islands.

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Fatal pilot errors, including the Staines air disaster which resulted in voice recorders being installed in all aircraft

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