Aviation

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25712024

Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Delta Air Lines plane that arrived Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, ultimately landing upside down amid wintry conditions.

The FAA says all 80 people on board Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, were evacuated.

Peel Regional Paramedic Services confirmed to CBS News that 15 patients had been transported to the hospital. Out of those injuries, one child and two adults are critically injured. The rest of the injuries are minor to moderate, officials said. 

All crew and passengers have been accounted for.

The plane was presumably a medical transport with two pilots, two doctors, a patient and a family member.

I knew it couldn’t last forever, but it’s still a shame the streak has ended. A CRJ700 operated by PSA for American Airlines collided with a Black Hawk while landing at Reagan National Airport. Sixty-four people were on the plane and 3 on the helicopter.

Edit: Corrected name on Black Hawk from one word to two

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/20650092

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🍁 Cheka-OGPU: The Baku-Grozny airliner was hit over the Naursky district of Chechnya, where several military units with air defense systems are located. According to the transcript of the conversations between the controller and the crew, the pilot mistook the strong blow to the plane for a collision with a flock of birds.

In fact, the damage indicates that a missile fired by air defenses exploded near the plane. The same impact occurred at an altitude of 2,400 meters.

According to open sources, several military units are located in this area, including those with air defense systems. Back in late 2011, the Chechnya Today website published a laudatory article about new weapons capable of controlling the airspace of the entire North Caucasus. The article states that the motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Ministry of Defense stationed in the Naursky district had a new air defense control system at that time, Barnaul-T. It is known that after the recent UAV attacks, several Pantsirs were also deployed in Chechnya.

❗️ Let me remind you that the President of Azerbaijan, Aliyev, has already turned the plane he was flying to the summit with Putin around Moscow and returned home. He must have been upset. However, he should have been upset when Putin started this war. And what happened is just its consequences.

https://t.me/Ol_Sharp/21113

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33354817

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_XB-1

Alt text for the comic embedded in the link: An XKCD comic about how to decode a METAR:

METAR - "Meter" (Usually misspelled)

KNYC - Station ID

251600Z - Time (25:16:002)

18035G45KT - Wind speed has been 18,035 knots for a good 45 minutes now.

6SM - Observer is a size 6 small.

VCFCFZVA - Sorry, the station cat walked on the keyboard.

+BLUP - Weird noise the sky made earlier.

NOSIG - The observer has no significant other :(

LTG OHD - We overheard someone saying there was lightning.

A3808 - Hey look, an Airbus A380-800!

RMK - Remarkable!

A02 - Fanfic archive equipped with a precipitation sensor.

SLP130= - Observer got sleepy around 1:30.