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According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the agency has launched an investigation into a near mid-air collision between a United Airlines B-777 bound for Beijing, China, and a light airplane.
The NTSB says the two planes came within an estimated 300 feet of colliding over San Francisco. At about 11:15 a.m. PDT on 27 March 2010, the crew of United Airlines Flight 889, a B777-222 (N216UA) carrying 251 passengers and a crew of 17, was cleared to takeoff from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on runway 28L and climb to an initial altitude of 3,000 feet.
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There has been an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash just after take-off from Beirut, Lebanon. Published reports state it was a Boeing 737-800 and that it departed in "stormy" weather.
Initial data suggests the flight carried 90 passengers and that witnesses claimed the plane caught fire before crashing on 25 January 2010.
See video reporting of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash.
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Published reports state that American Airlines Flight 331, a Boeing 737-800, has crashed after landing long at Kingston, Jamaica, at 10:22 p.m. local time 22 December 2009, in heavy rain.
The airline is quoted as stating that the flight carried 148 passengers and six crew. Injuries are said to be above 40 with no fatalities reported thus far.
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The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner commercial jetliner took off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington at 10:27 a.m. local time for the design's first flight on 15 December 2009. After a test flight of approximately three hours, it landed at 1:33 p.m. at Seattle's Boeing Field, according to Boeing.
787 Chief Pilot Mike Carriker and Captain Randy Neville tested the airplane's systems and structure as on-board equipment recorded and transmitted real-time data to the flight-test team at Boeing Field.
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NASA says their new Ares I-X rocket launched at 11:30 a.m. EDT 28 October 2009 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute test flight. The mission lasted about six minutes. Lift off occurred at newly-modified Launch Complex 39B
with splash down of the rocket's booster some 150 miles down
range.
According to NASA the 327-foot tall Ares I-X test vehicle produced 2.6 million pounds of
thrust which accelerated the rocket to nearly 3 g's and Mach 4.76, just
shy of hypersonic speed. It capped its easterly flight at a
sub-orbital altitude of 150,000 feet after the separation of its
first stage, a four-segment solid rocket booster.
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In its continuing investigation of an Airbus A320 that
overflew the Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-
Chamberlain Airport (MSP), the National Transportation
Safety Board has developed the following factual
information:
On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 5:56 pm
mountain daylight time, an Airbus A320, operating as
Northwest Airlines (NWA) flight 188, became a NORDO (no
radio communications) flight at 37,000 feet. The flight was
operating as a Part 121 flight from San Diego International
Airport, San Diego, California (SAN) to MSP with 144
passengers, 2 pilots and 3 flight attendants.
Both pilots were interviewed separately by NTSB
investigators yesterday in Minnesota. The following is an
overview of the interviews:
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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident where a Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 overflew its destination field at Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain Airport (MSP).
On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 5:56 pm mountain daylight time,
an Airbus A320, N03274, operating as Northwest Airlines (NWA) flight
188, became a NORDO (no radio communications) flight at 37,000 feet.
The flight was operating as a Part 121 flight from San Diego
International Airport, San Diego, California (SAN) to MSP with 147
passengers and unknown number of crew.
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its determination on the aviation accident that claimed the life of Steve Fossett.
"The Board determined that the aircraft, a Bellanca 8KCAB-180 (N240R) struck mountainous terrain near Mammoth Lakes, California following an inadvertent encounter with downdrafts that exceeded the climb capability of the airplane. Contributing to the accident were the downdrafts, high density altitude, and mountainous terrain."
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