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CNN
2 days ago
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- CNN
Air India flight crashes with 242 on board
A passenger plane has crashed at an airport in India's western city of Ahmedabad, with 242 people on board. The number of casualties was not immediately clear. Air India said that one of its flights bound for London was involved in an 'incident.' CNN's Will Ripley reports.
CNN
2 days ago
- General
- CNN
Air India flight crashes with 242 on board
A passenger plane has crashed at an airport in India's western city of Ahmedabad, with 242 people on board. The number of casualties was not immediately clear. Air India said that one of its flights bound for London was involved in an 'incident.' CNN's Will Ripley reports.
CNN
2 days ago
- CNN
Footage from the scene after plane crashes at airport in Ahmedabad, India
A passenger plane has crashed at an airport in India's western city of Ahmedabad. It was not immediately clear how many people were on board or the number of casualties. Air India said that one of its flights bound for London was involved in an 'incident.'
CNN
21-05-2025
- General
- CNN
Nose landing gear and tire broke off as Frontier Airlines flight attempted landing, NTSB preliminary report says
A nose landing gear wheel and tire broke off and hit an engine and wing during a Frontier Airlines attempted landing in Puerto Rico last month, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. On April 15, Frontier Flight 3506, an Airbus A321, was arriving from Orlando International Airport when its first landing attempt failed at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. According to the flight crew, the first officer was the pilot flying, and the captain was the pilot monitoring during the night flight. There were 228 passengers and seven crew members on board. When the plane was about 15 feet above the ground, the captain called for a go-around, instructing the first officer to abort the landing. The captain believed the aircraft was 'running out of flying speed quickly' so he took over and accelerated to circle the airport just as the plane touched down, according to the NTSB report. Data from the plane showed the wheels initially hit the ground at 2.2 times the force of gravity, greater than Frontier's 'hard landing' limit of 1.8 Gs. During the go-around, the pilots 'heard a loud bang coming from under the fuselage' and the first officer said that an engine failure was displayed on the electronic centralized aircraft monitor display, according to the NTSB. The captain asked for a sweep of the runway and metal and tire debris were found. Metal from the damaged nose landing gear was sucked into the plane's left engine and hit parts of the wing, the NTSB found. The plane flew near the air traffic control tower to check if all three landing gears were down, and a controller reported they all appeared to be intact. The plane then landed normally and the passengers safely evacuated by air stairs. The preliminary NTSB report does not determine what caused the accident, which will be outlined in a final report that usually takes about a year.
News.com.au
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
‘Shattered': Greg Norman in terrifying flight emergency
Greg Norman has been involved in a terrifying flight ordeal thousands of feet above the ground. The Aussie golfing legend has shared details of a nightmare moment he heard a 'shattering' sound while he was on-board a private fight from Los Angeles to Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday morning (AEST). The 70-year-old wrote on Instagram his chartered flight across the country had to turn back to Los Angeles. 'Inflight LAX - PBI loud pop = shattered windscreen,' he posted. 'Only the second time in 40yrs of private travel. Returned to LAX to the professionals to make sure all ok. Thanks all.' The post left his followers, including Aussie sporting figures, all sharing their relief that the two-time British Open champ was safely back on the ground. Photos shared by 'The Shark' showed the front windscreen had been smashed in with cracked glass visible around the edges of the cockpit frame. Another photo shows Norman smiling with emergency services workers. A fire truck could be seen in the background. Another photo showed Norman's view from the tarmac where multiple emergency vehicles were seen surrounding the damaged aeroplane. Norman did not mention who else was on the private flight with him. The golfer-turned businessman had been celebrating wife Kristen's birthday on Wednesday. The other serious aviation incident Norman survived was at the 2012 Omega European Masters. There were terrifying scenes when the nose landing gear on his private jet malfunctioned as he landed at Geneva Airport in Switzerland. 'We were going 60, 70, 80 knots, the wheel went 90 degrees, the nose started kangarooing and stuff in the cabin was going everywhere,' Norman said at the time. 'All the cabinets in the galley came out. The shaking was pretty violent. Nobody knew what was going on.' In typical Norman fashion, he was back on the golf course the very next day. Norman is a keen air-traveller and was previously working towards earning a helicopter piloting license with a flight instructor. According to reports of recent years, Norman is 'one of the bravest and best' helicopter pilots the instructor had ever seen. Norman has previously owned at least one luxury flight craft and was the envy of many golfers around the word when he purchased a $30 million Gulfstream jet. Norman has also previously mentioned other mid-flight scares, including having a wing get struck by lightning and an engine blowing on take-off. It seems it takes much more than a broken cockpit window to unsettle the leading golf course designer. If only he'd been this cool-headed during his final rounds at Augusta in 1986, 1987 and 1996.
