A routine Delta Air Lines flight from Pittsburgh to Atlanta ended in spectacular fashion when it touched down at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on May 28th and the brakes locked-up on the right main landing gear. The intense friction on the effected wheels caused them to produce billowing white smoke followed by fire and the disintegration …
Tag Archive: Accidents/Incidents
TSA employee should have screened self, sneaks aboard JetBlue flight – OPShots.net
Thirty year old Carlos Rodriguez, a screener for the TSA at New York’s JFK airport, apparently believed his space-available buddy pass from a JetBlue friend entitled him to a carte-blanche ride on an employee jump-seat during a flight to Santo Domingo last Saturday, May 14th. Approximately forty-five minutes into flight 819, a scheduled service from …
Pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino in Brazil air crash have sentences commuted – NYPOST.com
BRASILIA — A Brazilian court has convicted two American pilots for their role in a 2006 midair crash with a Brazilian airliner that killed 154 people, but commuted their jail terms, angering victims’ families, AFP reported Tuesday. Relatives of people killed in the accident said in a statement Tuesday that they were “disappointed and angry” …
Long distance engine change – Nolinor Cargo rescues stricken sister-ship at Cleveland in 2009 – OPShots.net
On the early Thursday morning of August 20, 2009, C-GNRL, a classic Convair 580 operated by Nolinor Cargo of Canada departed from Cincinnati’s Northern Kentucky International (CVG/KCVG), airport on the return leg of a nightly round-trip from Montréal-Trudeau (YUL/CYUL) airport in Québec, Canada. The routing for these flights regularly take a path directly through Cleveland …