Aviation

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Tragically, all 129 people on board were killed. This included 7 crew members and 122 American soldiers heading back to duty in South Korea.
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On This Day: 18 June 1953 🗓️
��The Tachikawa Air Disaster becomes one of the deadliest aviation accidents of its time.
​What happened: A US Air Force transport plane crashed just three minutes after taking off from Tokyo, Japan.
​ One of the engines burst into flames just a

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minute into the flight. As the pilot tried to turn back to the air base, the massive plane lost speed, stalled, and crashed into a nearby watermelon field.

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An Air Peace commercial flight from Abuja to Kano has been taken out of service and grounded for technical damage assessments today, following a severe bird strike that happened just after landing.
#Aviation #AirPeace #AviationSafety #Nigeria

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🇳🇬 Air Peace flight grounded after bird strike

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Ground engineers have carried out mandatory safety inspections and standard procedures before clearing the plane to return to service.

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✈️ Air India flight hits bird during landing at Raipur
A commercial safety hazard occurred in India yesterday morning involving an Air India Airbus A320 arriving from Delhi.

The aircraft was struck by a bird during its final approach and landing at Raipur Airport.
Bird...

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strikes are a constant low-altitude hazard that can cause severe engine or structural damage.
The flight landed safely with no injuries to passengers or crew.

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@BashirAhmaad Bashir, Is it not the DSTV you used to watched this morning FIFA World Cup?

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@TheGridPost Its service will be like National Grid, Every weeks the service will be collapsing.

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victims were pulled out alive, later reports confirmed that at least one person has tragically died from their injuries. Remarkably, no drivers on the highway were hurt.
Loop 20 has been shut down in both directions while the FAA and NTSB investigate the scene.

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✈️ One dead after business jet crashes onto Texas highway
A severe general aviation accident occurred in Laredo, Texas, on Tuesday night (16 June) when a small passenger jet crash-landed directly onto a major highway corridor.

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diverting to Laredo.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft falling from the sky while already on fire. Viral footage showed motorists and emergency services rushing to the burning plane to smash the cockpit window and pull the occupants free.
While police confirmed...

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#Aviation #Russia #Tu22M3 #AviationSafety #MilitaryNews #BreakingNews

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✈️ Russian strategic bomber crashes in Siberia
Simultaneous with the US military disaster, a Russian Aerospace Forces Tupolev Tu-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber has crashed during a routine operational training flight on Monday (15 June).

The variable-sweep wing bomber...

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came down in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.

Russian state media reports indicate the crash was triggered by a severe technical malfunction mid-flight.

Emergency services have been deployed to the remote impact site to recover logs and verify crew casualty details.

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@cvpidskissz @UpgradYourself Let it not be.

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suspect a severe flight control malfunction or critical maintenance failure. A formal investigation has been launched, which could take up to six months to complete.

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bomber crashed and burst into flames immediately after taking off on a routine test flight at around 11:20 a.m. local time on Monday (15 June).
​Air Force officials confirmed the crash was completely unsurvivable, leaving virtually nothing left of the aircraft.
​The team on...

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board was a mix of active-duty military personnel, government employees, and civilian contractors, including two Boeing employees. The flight was supporting an ongoing radar modernization program.

Because the plane crashed so quickly without gaining height, aviation experts...