The John Wayne airport had a brief power outage that forced controllers to guide planes with portable radios. SANTA ANA, Calif. — A brief power outage at a Southern California airport’s air traffic control tower on Sunday forced controllers to use portable radios to communicate with pilots and caused several flight delays, the Federal Aviation …
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Passenger jet skids to landing at Newark 2/27/12 – Newsday
A passenger plane with landing gear problems skidded down the runway at Newark Liberty Airport Monday evening, the chin of the plane scraping the tarmac before all aboard exited without injuries, authorities said. The 6:22 p.m. arrival of United Express Flight 5124 shut down the airport for nearly an hour. Two of the three runways …
Surprising Cause of Oshkosh F-16 Runway Overrun – Flying Magazine
Remember that runway overrun by an F-16C at Oshkosh last summer see it on video here? Plenty of armchair pilots speculated about why it might have happened, with possible causes centering on a what many presumed was a brake problem or perhaps too high an airspeed on final. It turns out that not a single …
Runway 10/28 reopens at Hopkins with new EMAS safety technology – WTAM 1100
(Cleveland) – An innovative new system aimed at saving lives is now in operation at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held today on Runway 10-28 to inaugurate EMAS, or the Emergency Materials Arresting System. Airport Director Ricky Smith says, built into the end of the runway is a bed of engineering …