Airport fire services responded today to an accident at Akron-Canton airport when a private plane veered off the runway while landing, sliding down an embankment and bursting into flames. The FAA lists the plane, a 1981 build Mooney 20J, as being registered to William Bradshaw of Stow, Ohio, although the identities of the pilot and …
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Delta Air Lines MD-88 burns some rubber on landing in Atlanta – OPShots.net
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 …
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” …
New hangar space at Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport could mark start of lakefront plan | cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Efforts to build hangar space for an aircraft maintenance company at Burke Lakefront Airport could prove the first piece of the city of Cleveland’s larger, expansive plans for redeveloping the lakefront. Constant Aviation, a company based at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, is looking for as much as 100,000 square feet at Burke. …