Interesting stuff, Pilot done well considering there was 3 major events.
Engine failure.
Structural damage to control surfaces.
Injured passengers.
Southwest flight 1380 ATC Recordings Emergency Landing at Philadelphia - YouTube
BBC News - Virgin Atlantic jet lands safely with landing gear problem
I happened to catch this on BBC news while it was still in flight, so went on to radar24 to track it. Flippin heck, can you imaging just after take off being told there is an issue and we are returning.....So they flew around...
Watched a programme last night on channel 5 at 8 pm (Thanks for the reminder Philip), which posed the question , was it rigged
There were quite a few anomilies, from cross hairs etched into the still camera lenses (which then should have showed up ON TOP of items, being nearer the "Iris" of...
Probably most of you will realise that this year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's historic moon landing.
I was 12 and we all got up at something like 4am to see it live on TV - I can remember how it really did excite people at the time and fire the imagination. That Christmas, I got an...
We have just got back from 2 weeks in Akbuk. It was great as usual.
The flight there however, was not that great.
We departed from Manchester 15 August 2008 (Onur air Flight OHY 1512.)
Departing late, the flight from Manchester was smooth... but then came the landing.
We started the decent to...
Heathrow crash landing investigated
Friday, 18 January 2008, 10:44 GMT
Workers examine the British Airways 777 that crash landedPassengers endured delays and cancellations at Heathrow as the investigation continued into the dramatic crash landing of a British Airways jet.
The Air Accidents...
A Brussels-bound plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Budapest in Hungary this morning.
The plane was carrying 293 passengers and 11 crew.
No one was injured in the incident, newspaper 'Het Nieuwsblad' reported.
The charter flight of airline Fly Air was en route from Istanbul to...