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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts

2008/08/30

Madrid Barajas-Airport Spanair MD82 early video




Initial British news coverage of the Madrid Crash, before the number of casualties were known. Helicopters dumping water on the wreckage. The only survivors were the 26 survivors taken to the hospital, some of whom died.

Early Video Coverage of Spanair Crash


The Madrid crash happened as Spanair Flight 5022 was taking off from the main runway=taking off at about 2:45 p.m. (8:45 a.m. ET). The plane was headed to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

Repost: Breaking News of Spanair Crash


English Language clip of initial breaking news of Spanair Crash

Spanair Madrid Crash Video


EL VUELO JK 5022 con 173 a bordo, 150 FALLECIDOS, El accidente se produjo a las 14:45 hora local en el momento de despegue del avión, un modelo MD-82. UNA TRAGEDIA HORROROSA.

2008/08/29

Sao Paulo, Brasil



Accidente aereo en Sao Paulo
Un avión de pasajeros de la aerolínea brasileña TAM con 186 personas a bordo se ha estrellado contra una gasolinera en el aeropuerto Congonhas de Sao Paulo.

TAM Airlines Flight 3054



TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) July 17, 2007. All passengers and crew were killed in the crash, as well as a dozen people on the ground

2008/08/22

Aeropuerto Barajas Accidente



English and Spanish
Inglés y Español

Aeropuerto Barajas accidente T2 vuelo Spanair JKK 5022 a Canarias AL MENOS 153 MUERTOS 8:33

Nos disculpamos por el anuncio

2008/08/14

Angel Flight Update

After four years and about two dozen "Angel flights to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Robert Gregory's leukemia had finally gone into remission. Then, he and his wife Donna died when their Angel Flight crashed outside Boston.

On counselor's advice, relatives taking care of their four year old twins Amanda and Bobby have not yet told them their parents are dead.





What: single-engine 956 Beechcraft Bonanza G35 on a flight from Westhampton Beach, N.Y., to Logan International Airport for Angel Flight New England nosedived into the parking lot of an Easton strip mall and exploded in flames. The plane is owned by Janet Keene.
Where: Easton, blacktop parking lot of a Hannaford's supermarket on Robert Drive near Route 106
When: 10:15 a.m.
Who: Killed were pilot Joseph Baker and Robert Gregory and his wife Donna. The flight was taking the husband to a Boston hospital for cancer
The sad tale of this Angel Flight is made eve

Why: the plane disappeared from radar about 20 miles southwest of Logan. Witnesses said "The plane was flying low under the clouds when it appeared to "stall or spin" "
"Investigators are trying to determine what may have transpired. We don’t know at this time."

*Angel Flight New England is a 12-year-old volunteer “air charity network” out of Lawrence Municipal Airport in North Andover that provides free transportation to hospitals for financially challenged patients

2008/07/10

BOGOTA Columbia Crash




What: 747-200 cargo plane
Where: near Bogota
When: Monday
Who: 8 crew members survived, 3 fatalities, including a 14 year old boy sleeping in the house where the plane crashed
Why: a fire in one of the plane's jet engines

Update

  • one member of the American crew remains in critical condition
  • Joseph Kendall is under observation with a head injury and has had his spleen removed
  • three other crew members remain hospitalized
  • Steve Szynkowski had spinal surgery
  • four crew members have been treated and released
  • This is the 2nd Boeing 747 operated by Kalitta Air to crash in six weeks.

2008/07/04

Helicopter fatalities in Alameda County



What: Schweizer 269C helicopter owned by Quadrus Inc., a catering and conference center in Menlo Park
Where: Sheridan Road between Fremont and Sunol
When: 12:32 a.m
Who: fight instructor and student were killed
Why: Aircraft hit 60,000-volt power transmission lines and caught fire. Cloudy weather conditions but not raining.

After hitting the electrical wires, power lines were knocked into traffic lanes, and the burning helicopter ignited a 5 acre grass fire.

2008/07/03

Go-round go round



The go round--resulting from heavy traffic-- is a maneuver practiced in US airports. Just how safe is it?

2008/06/18

Emergency Landing: Orlando




What: Single-engine Cessna 150 owned by Ormond Beach Aviation en route from Ormond Beach to Flagler beach
Where: In the median of Interstate 95 in Volusia County
When: Tuesday June 17 around noon
Who: Instructor and student were aboard. The owner came to the scene to make repairs. The plane had no damage and on landing, did not hit or graze any of the hundreds of vehicles on the road caught in noonday traffic. (Eric McRee and Craig Highes)
Why: The plane"blew a cylinder head in the motor" and the engine failed, forcing the landing.m

The video below is of the take off

2008/06/12

Sudan Crash Video




Video of the burning Sudanese Airbus 310 moments after landing in Khartoum. Fourteen passengers are unaccounted for, 171 survived and 29 people died inside the plane. Many were transported to local hospitals. This is just one of a number of Airbus crash incidents where the plane has had difficulty on landing.


Air France 296

1988:


First crash of a new 'Fly-By-Wire' aircraft, the Airbus A320-100 impacted trees while performing a fly-by at an airshow and burst into flames. The crew, and Air France maintenance officials, have all been sentenced to probation for manslaughter; the Captain has been imprisoned. Evidence, including photographs, has now been exposed that an Airbus official at the scene switched the Digital Flight Data Recorder before the court hearing.Read More

2008/06/05

Video: Thomas Cook 767-300 emergency landing + ATC



Thomas cook manchester international airport egcc emergency landing may day 767 300 fire

Somebody there might have seen a fire. I can't see it in this video. But here it is.