Quick thinking Colorado pilot Rueben Bakker saved a mother and son in a mid-air plane collision by detaching their glider in tow.
Duration : 0:1:12
Feb 102010
Nov 052009
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, registration RA-85816, was a Tupolev Tu-154M passenger jet en route from Moscow, Russia, to Barcelona, Spain. DHL Flight 611, registration A9C-DHL, was a Boeing 757-23APF cargo jet flying from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium. The two aircraft collided in mid-air on 1 July 2002, at 21:35 (UTC) over the towns of Owingen and Überlingen in Germany, (near Lake Constance), killing all 71 aboard both aircraft[5]. The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation (BFU) determined on 19 May 2004, that the accident had been caused by problems within the air traffic control system and problems with the use of the collision warning system.[BFU 1] On 24 February 2004, the controller who was on duty at the time, the Dane Peter Nielsen, was stabbed to death by Vitaly Kaloyev[6] who had lost his wife and two children in the acciden
Duration : 0:3:29
Nov 012009
Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
How airplanes Fly 1968
NTIS AVA08357VNB1
What makes an airplane get off the ground and stay in the air? Easy to understand film combines animation and live sequences to explain … all » basic aerodynamics. Forces of lift, weight, thrust and drag are shown in relation to flight.
Duration : 0:18:30
Oct 252009
These photos were taken by an old woman who were trying to take some shots of both aircraft close together but it ended up they crashed to each other. She submitted those to FOX news only!
These are the only photos believed to be taken of this deadly crash! No High Quality Pics available from FOX NEWS!
Liberty tour sightseeing charter company helicopter, Eurocopter AS 350, carrying five Italian tourists collided with a small Piper PA-32 plane on Saturday noon, August 08, 2009 over the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan. All nine people aboard are believed to be killed.
The instrument-rated pilot of the Piper, 60-year-old Steven Altman, departed from nearby Teterboro Airport moments before the collision, after stopping to pick up his brother and his nephew. There was some confusion between Altman and the Teterboro tower controller as to which route the Piper would take toward its destination, Ocean City in southern New Jersey. Ultimately, Altman said, “Tell you what, I’ll take down the river.” That placed the Piper inside the Hudson River VFR corridor, a narrow strip of VFR airspace that extends from the surface to 1,100 feet, and from the New York side of the river to the east and the New Jersey side to the west. Altitude readouts for the Lance show it flying at just that height or about 100 feet lower until the collision moments later. The helicopter, a Eurocopter AS350 operated by Liberty Helicopter Tours, had departed from the 30th Street Heliport and was in a climbing turn southbound as part of its planned 12-minute tour. Along with the pilot, New Zealander Jeremy Clarke, 33, were five tourists from Bologna, Italy. The right wing of the Piper separated after it contacted the rotor disc of the helicopter and both aircraft spun into the water with nonsurvivable impact.
All the crash victims may REST IN PEACE!
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