Paraglider crash caused by winds
From BBC News
A paraglider accident in the Yorkshire Dales in which the pilot was killed was caused by strong winds, accident investigators have reported. "At the time of the subsequent accident to the paraglider, most of the competition pilots had landed and conditions were described as turbulent, with lively thermal conditions."
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Adam Air may be shut down after string of accidents
From Mister Info
The anouncement follows the news yesterday that an Adam Air Boeing 737-400 had overshot the runway at Batam island's airport, injuring five of the over 170 people on board. On New Years day 2007 Adam Air Flight 574 crashed into the ocean near Sulawesi, leaving 102 missing, presumed dead. The Adam Air accidents accounted for two of the three main accidents that caused the European Union to ban Indonesian airlines from EU airspace last year over safety standards.
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Helicopter accident being investigated
From Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
An air accident investigation was under way last night after five passengers and two pilots luckily escaped injury when their helicopter was involved in a collision as it came in to land on a gas platform 50 miles off Yarmouth. The helicopter is normally based on the platform As an investigation by the Department for Transport's air accidents investigation branch (AAIB) got under way, all those involved were marooned on the platform as helicopter flights were grounded by yesterday's storm.
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Pensioner, 71, describes moment she found crashed plane in her ...
From This is London
The convict was a passenger in the Cessna 172 when the aircraft crashed in trees in the back garden of Eileen and Alfred Watling's garden in Folkestone, Kent. The elderly couple watched in amazement as the prisoner and the pilot emerged from the wreckage and dropped to the ground, shortly after taking off from Rochester Airport in Kent. The convict, who has not been named, was serving his sentence for importing drugs at Blantyre House Prison, Goudhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The plane...
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Safety board isn't finding much on British Airways' crash
From Dallas Morning News
Left main tank, water scavenge inlet - a piece of black plastic tape, approximately 5 cm square; Right centre tank override pump - a small piece of fabric or paper found in the guillotine valve of the pump housing. Left centre tank water scavenge jet pump - small circular disc, 6 mm in diameter, in the motive flow chamber. A sump sample taken from the left and right main fuel tanks shortly after the accident revealed no significant quantities of water. Samples from the centre tank had been...
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