Tag Archive: Aviation Safety

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 …

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Dive team finds part of Air France Flight 447 recorder; data missing | ATWOnline

French Air Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA) on Wednesday confirmed that investigators searching for wreckage of the Air France A330-200 that crashed in the South Atlantic June 1, 2009 located the aircraft’s flight data recorder. However, BEA subsequently told Bloomberg that the FDR is missing “the memory module that stores its crucial information,” the news agency …

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Incident: American B772 near Tokyo, turbulence injures 4 cabin crew – The Aviation Herald

An American Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration N766AN performing flight AA-170 from Tokyo Narita (Japan) to Los Angeles,CA (USA) with 231 people on board, was climbing through FL240 about 194nm east of Narita Airport over the international waters of the Pacific Ocean when the aircraft experienced severe turbulence causing injuries to 4 flight attendants. The crew …

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Southwest grounds 79 737-300’s after hole prompts emergency landing – CNN.com

(CNN) — Southwest Airlines announced Saturday that it is grounding 79 planes for inspection following an incident in which one of its flights was forced to make an emergency landing after a 3-foot hole tore open in the fuselage of the plane. The plane managed to land safely at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, …

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