On May 2nd, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 operating flight WN-1322 from Houston to Baltimore was close to a collision with a news helicopter taking-off at the same time.
The Southwest 737 had been cleared for take-off from Hobby Airport's runway 12R and had just rotated when the crew spotted a helicopter ahead and above them and took evasive action. The helicopter crew reacted as well and took a sharp right turn away from the runway.
A surveillance plane assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti crashed into a mountain Friday, killing all 11 military personnel on board, the United Nations said.
U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas in New York said the Uruguayan CASA212 aircraft went down in rugged terrain west of Fonds-Verrettes near the border with the Dominican Republic, some 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
"The aircraft was on a regular reconnaissance flight," Montas said in a statement.Rescue teams had to reach the area by foot because there were no roads nearby, and they found no survivors, she said.
The Maharaja witnessed his first in-flight Mughal-e-Azam at 30,000 feet above sea level on Saturday, as two members of the cabin crew—one male and one female—slugged it out with the pilot and co-pilot.
Endangering the lives of 106 passengers and grossly violating safety norms, the airline staffers came to blows in the cockpit and galley of the Indian Airlines Airbus A320 as the aircraft cruised over Pakistan en route to Delhi via Lucknow from Sharjah.
Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the man responsible for blowing up a Pan Am Boeing 747 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie as it was flying from London to New York on December 18, 1988, is about to be granted freedom on compassionate grounds, the final decision resting with Scotland's Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill. With the crash, all 259 people on board the aircraft were killed, as well as 11 people on the ground.
Libya has repeatedly called for Megrahi's release, with the latest attempt undertaken at a meeting between Gordon Brown and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi last month. Megrahi was sentenced to life in prison and is currenly battling against advanced prostate cancer.
The Iranian Ilyushin Il-62 that crashed on July 24 while attempting to land at Marshhad was reported to have a landing speed that was much too high. The aircraft, owned by private company Aria, landed with a speed of approximately 170 mph while 140-150 mph is recommended by the manufacturer. Furthermore, Iranian minister of transportation Ahmad Majidi said that the aircraft touched-down at the middle of the runway, making the remaining runway length insufficient to reach a complete stop safely. Consequently the aircraft overshot the runway and hit a concrete wall. A total of 17 on-board the aircraft were killed, of which 13 were crew members.
