Sentences with phrase «antonov cargo plane»

If Osama bin Laden wants to send me four cargo planes with gauze and alcohol today, I'm taking it.»

An Air National Guard cargo plane crashed Wednesday along a road near a Georgia airport, killing at least five National Guard members from Puerto Rico.»

This means fuel expenses, pilot salaries and other costs for cargo planes must also be factored into the Air Force One budget.

Boeing is reportedly considering the conversion of used 777 passenger jets into cargo planes in order to capitalize on the boom in e-commerce-related shipments.

The GBU - 43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, sometimes grimly called the «Mother of All Bombs» because of its acronym, was loaded onto a pallet, flown in a C - 130 cargo plane, then dragged out the back of the plane — pallet included — by a parachute.

UBS researchers admit cargo planes would be more likely than commercial airlines to try pilotless flights.

Flames and smoke rise from an Air National Guard C - 130 cargo plane after it crashed near Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, May 2, 2018.

Washington (AFP)- An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said.

Air national guard C - 130 cargo plane was on a training mission and the cause of the crash wasn't immediately known

The crash leaves Puerto Rico's National Guard with five large cargo planes, but two of them need maintenance and aren't being used, Rivera said.

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. (AP)-- Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C - 130 Hercules cargo plane being flown into retirement by an experienced crew plunged onto a Georgia highway.

A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were killed Wednesday when a military cargo plane crashed near Savannah / Hilton Head International Airport minutes after takeoff, sending black smoke billowing into the sky, authorities said.

In August 2016, the company unveiled its first branded cargo plane, one of 40 jetliners that were expected to make up its own air transportation network.

A spokesman for the Georgia Air National Guard says authorities don't yet know what caused a military cargo plane to crash after taking off from a Savannah, Georgia, airport, killing at least five.

All nine people on board were killed when a Puerto Rico Air National Guard cargo plane crashed on Wednesday near Savannah, Georgia, scattering fiery debris over a highway and railroad tracks, authorities said yesterday.

Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C - 130 Hercules cargo plane being flown into retirement by an experienced crew of nine airmen plunged onto a Georgia highway.

Chatham County Deputy Coroner Tiffany Williams says police tell her two people have been killed in the crash of a military cargo plane near an airport in Savannah, Georgia.

The cargo plane was making its final flight into retirement Wednesday morning, Isabelo Rivera, adjutant general of the Puerto Rico National Guard told the AP.

The plane, a C -130-type cargo plane from Puerto Rico's 156th Airlift Wing, had been in Savannah for maintenance and took off about 11:30 a.m., bound for Arizona.

While there were «no identifiable or specific threats,» an FBI official in Chicago said suspicious packages addressed to U.S. destinations found on cargo planes abroad warranted the precautions.

Then 27, Perry had been around the world flying huge C - 130 cargo planes for the military.

The entire country's current annual import of cocaine would fit into a single C - 5A cargo plane.

We flew to Yerevan, Armenia, on a cargo plane laden with aid, and then by military helicopter to Stepanakert, capital of Nagorno Karabakh.

The former 30 - cents - an - hour TWA mechanic built his fortune by supplying surplus military equipment to the airline industry and later converting passenger planes to cargo planes.

There also was the tweet that was quickly deleted claiming responsibility for shooting down a cargo plane in the same time frame that the commercial flight was shot down.

A Russian - built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan's capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.

Our sources say the luxury cars arrived on a Global African Airlines cargo plane.

The announcement comes soon after the discovery of an explosive package on board a cargo plane bound for Chicago from Yemen, which stopped at East Midlands airport.

The Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station will receive what could be a life - saving boost in President Barack Obama's fiscal 2017 budget, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said, as the Air Force will announce plans to bring eight refueling tankers to the base to replace its aging fleet of cargo planes.

It remains to be seen what this proposal could mean for the base's fleet of C - 130 cargo planes and its staffing numbers.

The number of C - 130 cargo planes at the base would be reduced from 11 to eight.

The Ministry of Defence will not ground the RAF's fleet of Hercules cargo planes, despite US fears over wing cracks.

WASHINGTON — An Air National Guard unit based in Niagara Falls will soon be directing unmanned drones on missions around the globe, and that unit also may get to keep at least some of the four C - 130 cargo planes that the Air Force was threatening to take away less than a year ago.

Humans travel with a veritable army of hitch - hikers: marine plants and animals that float in a ship's ballast water; rats, bugs, and other creepers (and slitherers) that stow away in cargo planes.

In early April, after finishing tests at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, the telescope will be put in crates and shipped via cargo plane to the South African Astronomical Observatory near Sutherland.

The full - scale airship would dwarf a military cargo plane.

Last month, the US government secretly flew two cargo planes into Kazakhstan and spirited away — with the cooperation of the republic's government — enough highly enriched uranium to make 20 bombs.

You'll spend 8 hours seated in cargo netting along the fuselage of an LC - 130 turboprop cargo plane packed with tons of equipment (from frozen food to compressed helium), struggling to hear yourself think (forget about hearing the person next to you talk).

A Hercules military cargo plane sat stranded, unable to take off.

The latest plot placed one PETN bomb and detonator in a cargo plane and another in the cargo hold of a passenger plane, where they were less likely to be detected.

Since Abdulmutallab's attempt, efforts to secure airline cabins have been stepped up, but security surrounding cargo planes and cargo compartments in passenger airplanes has received much less attention, particularly outside the U.S..

Foreign aid workers said they had struggled to get equipment and personnel on to Philippine military cargo planes, with the government prioritizing the deployment of soldiers due to widespread looting at the weekend.

After leaving the frontline hospital, they're loaded onto a massive C - 17 cargo plane that has been retrofitted to hold an entire intensive care unit — up to 8 critical care patients and 27 noncritical litter patients.

A U.S. Air Force C - 17 cargo plane transported MAVEN from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado to Kennedy Space Center on Friday.

The United Nations dispatched cargo planes and helicopters, and DRC government officials began holding daily coordinating committee meetings attended by representatives from international aid, and development organizations, WHO, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The spacecraft was transported from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo., on Friday, aboard a U.S. Air Force C - 17 cargo plane.

But new boy Christopher McQuarrie more than makes up for that with gasp - inducing action sequences that will have you holding your breath in sympathy with those getting pummeled: the opening sequence, in which Tom Cruise's IMF agent Ethan Hunt jumps onto the wing of an taxiing cargo plane and clings to its side as the enormous thing takes off beautifully ups the ante on Protocol's hanging - off - the - side - of - a-skyscraper stunt.

We join the Impossible Missions Force team as Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is attempting to gain entry to a humungous Russian cargo plane in order to prevent «the package» from being delivered.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, as Agent Russell is added to the group as Okoye and Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris), the rogue genetic engineer who helped develop the serum, join forces and have one thrilling ride in a cargo plane that is destroyed in the sky.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.