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Smog adds to short runway woes at Mumbai airport
15 hours ago ago from Aviation India : Get All News on Indian Aviation
> ADVERTISEMENT > Mumbai: Short runway operations at the airport were affected on Tuesday because of smog, drastically bringing down flight movement to 19 -- six arrivals and 13 departures -- from 58 between 1pm to 6pm. "The operations started at 1.02pm but were suspended at 2.07pm as visibility dropped to 1,800 metres," said a spokesperson for Mumbai International Airport Limited (Mial). The required visibility for flight operations ...
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16 hours ago ago from Air France Flight 447
Speculative Forensics. We cannot draw conclusions. We can only speculate. The black boxes have not been found. The investigation is inconclusive except that there were probably multiple concurrent or sequential causes. We can ask the following questions: Was it the pitot tubes? Was it the turbulence? Was it the weather? Was it pilot error? Was it fly by wire/computer error? There are still lessons unlearned from AFF ...
Related contentThird Runway at Heathrow Airport Approved Again
4 hours ago ago from TreeHugger
Image from plane stupid Much to the horror of environmentalists, a third runway at Heathrow Airport has been approved again; this time by the Committee on Climate Change, an independent body set up to advise the government on the impact on carbon emissions of a third runway and sixth terminal at Heathrow Airport. Environmentalists had been pretty sure that this group would contradict the government's findings and thus help to kill the ...
Related contentPlane Blown off Runway at BHM Airport
11 hours ago ago from ABC 33/40 Weather Blog
The ABC3340 Newsroom is reporting that a plane blew off a runway at the Birmingham Airport. It is apparently a small plane. One man was on board and apparently walked away. More details as we get them. Strong gradient winds continue across Alabama tonight outside the thunderstorms, averaging 15-30 mph with occasional stronger gusts. We are seeing quite a few reports of limbs and trees down. Be aware of where any ...
Related contentOn This Day in Aviation History: December 9th
10 hours ago ago from NYCAviation.com | Planespotting and Aviation Photography, Breaking Airline News, Aviation Discussion
Trans-Canada Flight 810 crashes in 1956, United begins flights to Vietnam in 2004 exactly two years to-the-day after filing for bankruptcy. Delta receives the 1,000th 737 in 1983, MiG designer Artem Mikoyan dies in 1970, the first monoplane flight and more.
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