Sentences with phrase «aircraft crashed in»

The aircraft crashed in icing conditions near Monroe, Michigan, resulting in 29 fatalities.

The airline has only had one fatal crash in the past two decades, when a Fokker 50 aircraft crashed in Tawau, Sabah in Malaysia, killing 34 people in 1995.

Unfortunately, after encountering inclement weather and considerable turbulence, the aircraft crashed in a remote region of the snow - capped Andes Mountains.

Yasseri and his Oxford colleagues decided to formally analyze the data and built an algorithm that parsed data on all pages on aircraft crashes in Wikipedia's two most popular language versions, English and Spanish.

The Forest is an open world survival horror game where you enter the role of a survivor of an aircraft crash in a mysterious forest.

Not exact matches

Police have not yet identified the deceased in the light aircraft crash.

Prior to Tuesday, the most recent fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an aircraft operated by the now - defunct regional airline Colgan Air crashed and killed 50 people, including 49 on board and one person on the ground.

The first incident was in November 2016 when a MiG - 29K ran out of fuel while waiting for repairs to the arresting wire, and the second was just a month later, when an Su - 33 crashed because the arresting wire failed to hold the aircraft.

Compare this to commercial aircraft, where about one in 500,000 flights results in a fatal crash.

«This is a concerning rate,» Dedrone CEO Jorg Lamprecht told CNBC, «especially in light of international incidents where drones have crashed into other aircraft, and been used by terrorists, and used in other illicit activities.»

The crash was caused by moisture in the sensors that created bad readings to the flight control computer that consequently forced the aircraft to pitch up on takeoff.

Dealing with the F / A -18 E / F Super Hornet fleet, four aircraft were lost (fortunately resulting in 0 fatalities) including the one lost last week: two VFA - 211 F / A -18 F jets from NAS Oceana collided and crashed 25 miles E of the Oregon Inlet, Nags Head, NC on May 26, 2016; earlier this year, on Apr. 21, 2017, a VFA - 137 F / A -18 E crashed during a landing attempt on USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Celebes sea, between Indonesia and the Philippines.

Think about it if 20 + Americans had hijacked an aircraft and crashed them into the Mosque in Mecca, do you honestly think the Saudi Arabians would have said anyone other then America was @ fault?

The Boeing MD - 83 aircraft was carrying 153 passengers and crew when it crashed into a densely - populated area in the north of Lagos and burst into flames.

But another witness, an army lieutenant, contradicted that account, saying that the aircraft caught fire in mid-air before crashing and that there was a series of explosions on the ground.

Fourteen servicemen died when an RAF Nimrod MR2 reconnaissance aircraft crashed near the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on September 2nd 2006.

A drone collided with a commercial aircraft in Canada last week — the first time such a crash has happened in North America, transportation officials said.

Duffy noted the aircraft was the first helicopter purchased by the State Police since 2002 and replaced one that crashed in 2012.

Mr Farage, who was injured in an aircraft crash on the day of the general election, came third behind independent candidate John Stevens.

Analyses of airliner impacts became mandatory after terrorists deliberately crashed two aircraft into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York in 2001.

In the last part, Sikanen applied the methods that he had developed to the analysis of the impact of aircraft crashing into a nuclear power plant.

Tragically, 40 per cent of people who survive an aircraft crash die in the ensuing fire, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration.

YOU have just one minute to get out of a crashed aircraft before you are killed in its burning fuselage.

«The crash of a large aircraft in the ocean would be a high energy event and expected to generate intense underwater sounds.»

The future of a revolutionary'til trotor» aircraft being developed for the US Navy is in the balance after a fatal crash of a prototype.

But the Air France flight was crashed into the sea not by terrorists but by a crew who managed to stall the aircraft in a storm after apparently believing the autoflight computers — which were disengaged at the time — would prevent a stall.

Yasseri was initially drawn to look at the online behavior surrounding aircraft crashes after Germanwings Flight 9525 went down in the French Alps last year.

Paul Leventhal, who heads the Nuclear Control Institute, a lobby group in Washington DC, says the German claims that MOX fuel would not disperse after an aircraft crash are not supported by scientific evidence.

Every conceivable catastrophic event — severe cyclones (hurricanes or typhoons), tsunamis, flood, earthquakes, fire and crashing aircraft — has been considered in SMR - 160's design basis, and appropriate features incorporated to ensure that it will withstand these events without damage to itself, nor impose any risk to public health and safety.

Response: Holtec is also an industry leader in designing nuclear systems to withstand cataclysmic natural events such as severe flood, hyper - wind, tornado, tsunami, fire, earthquake, and human mendacity such as a crashing aircraft or missiles, providing absolute and certain safety to the surrounding communities and environment.

Horner died in a plane crash, piloting a small aircraft that went down a day ago in California.

Its revisionist history suggests that the space race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the Sixties was inspired by the crash on the dark side of the moon of an alien aircraft from the planet Cybertron, the home of the Transformers.

The seasoned sleuth proves to be up to the challenge, however, and after June returns to her seat from the ladies» room, he matter - of - factly explains that «We lost the pilots,» and crash lands the aircraft in a cornfield.

After surviving a controlled landing / crash without landing gear, Zamperini and a handful of fellow soldiers (the most significant of which is Phil, played by Domhnall Gleeson's impressive American accent) go out on another mission that ends in less heroic fashion, as their aircraft crashes into the Pacific Ocean.

The seasoned sleuth proves to be up to the challenge, however, and after June returns to her seat from the ladies» room, he matter - of - factly explains that «We lost the pilots,» before crash - landing the aircraft in a cornfield.

On September 3, 2010, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a 747 - 400 cargo aircraft crashed while attempting to land at the Dubai airport after a fire was discovered.

In 1950, a dummy was created by Samuel W. Alderson of the Alderson Research Labs and was used to perform crash tests for both aircraft and motor vehicles.

The results of an investigation into the incident where a Tropic Air aircraft crash - landed in the sea moments after it attempted lift - off at the Placencia airstrip in November are still to be released.

In the wake of Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft that is believed to have been caused by...

An MA - 60 aircraft operated by Merpati Nusantara Airlines has crash landed in Indonesia with 52 people on board.

He began his military training as an aircraft radio operator in 1941 and the perennial bind of surviving a plane crash and on rescue being wrapped in fat and felt to keep him alive remained deeply ingrained.

So far as I have been able to find out, while there are about 200 000 utility scale wind turbines in the world, no aircraft has ever crashed because of a wind turbine.

So far as I have been able to discover, no aircraft, anywhere in the world, has ever crashed into a wind turbine or due to turbulence from a wind turbine or wind farm.

An aircraft industry insider told Michael Crichton about a near - crash mid-air event that was never reported in the media.

I have been a participant in several «root cause analysis» having been told such an exercise comes from the aircraft industry; i.e., when an aircraft crashes and burns, that is an excursion.

The aircraft's emergency transponder was set off some time later by the crash in the remote northwestern Maine woods, he said.

During the past 18 months, the firm represented four families at an inquest into the death of five service personnel killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, which led to a recommendation that safety rules should be reviewed and all military aircraft fitted with flight data recorders.

You may be entitled to compensation if the crash was caused by negligence or recklessness, or by defects in the aircraft or its components.

However, these facts may not be of any comfort when you or a loved one is actually involved in an aircraft crash or accident.

(6) A person who possesses or controls a drone and causes the drone to fire a bullet or other projectile at an aircraft while the aircraft is in the air, or intentionally causes or attempts to cause the drone to crash into an aircraft while the aircraft is in the air, commits a Class A felony.