A series of powerful earthquakes rocked Manokwari, the capital of West Papua, on Sunday, killing four people, injuring dozens and destroying hundreds of buildings.
One 7.3-magnitude tremor was felt as far away as Australia and sent small tsunamis into Japan’s southeastern coast, the Associated Press reported.
The first quake, magnitude 7.6, struck at 4:43 a.m. local time about 135 kilometers from Manokwari at a depth of 35 kilometers, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Dozens of aftershocks followed.
An alert pilot of Air India’s Haj flight today helped avert a possible disaster at NSC Bose Airport this morning.
The Boeing-747 flight carrying 449 haj pilgrims from Jeddah was about to land in three minutes when the pilot noticed another aircraft on the same runway and contacted the Air Traffic Control (ATC) officers alerting them to it.
There was poor visibility and planes were landing under CAT-II ILS conditions. The ATC officers immediately contacted the pilot of the Alliance Air’s cargo flight that was on the runway. The cargo flight, IC-7901 was carrying mails to Guwahati.
Two more people injured in last Saturday’s plane crash at Denver International Airport have been released from the hospital, officials said today.
Among those released was the pilot of the Continental jet that veered off the runway, slid nearly half a mile into a ravine and caught fire, airline officials told CBS 4.
ANSON COUNTY, N.C. — Federal investigators are looking into a deadly Christmas Day plane crash in Anson County.
Deputies said Steven Reamer, 57, was flying his plane from Greensboro to Gainesville, Florida.
Records show Reamer turned back near the South Carolina border and crashed at the Anson County Airport just outside Wadesboro.
Two witnesses at the airport ran out to help, but were unable to save Reamer. He died in the crash. His wife, Pamela, was flown to Carolinas Medical Center. At last check, she was in fair condition.
Federal investigators said late Monday that an unusual rattling sound can be heard on the cockpit recorder of a Continental Airlines flight shortly before it veered off a runway after an aborted takeoff Saturday, injuring more than three dozen people.
National Transportation Safety Board officials said the jet’s pilots aborted takeoff at high speed in a bid to keep from hurtling off the side of a runway at Denver International Airport last Saturday. But the plane became uncontrollable anyway and within seconds slammed into a snowy ravine.
DENVER (AP) — Investigators took photos and measurements at the charred wreckage of a Continental Airlines jet Monday, searching for clues about why the plane veered off a runway and skidded into a shallow ravine. The twin-engine Boeing 737-500 still sat in a shallow, snow-covered ravine where it came to rest after its aborted takeoff Saturday at Denver International Airport.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators made preliminary reviews of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder on Sunday, agency spokesman Peter Knudson said.
Southern Sweden was rocked by an earthquake early on Tuesday morning which caused a flood of phone calls to emergency services operators from alarmed residents.
“The bed shook for about 20 seconds,” Helsingborg resident John O’Leary told The Local.
O’Leary said the quake woke him at about 6:20am and that the shaking knocked over several items in his apartment.
Uppsala University seismologist Reynir Bödvarsson estimated the quake measured between 4.5 and 5.0 on the Richter scale.
A flight attendant was forced to land a UK-bound jet carrying 146 passengers after the co-pilot had a mental breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, an official report disclosed today.
Another attendant suffered wrist injuries as the crew forcibly removed the co-pilot from the cockpit controls and restrained him in a seat in the cabin, the Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) said.
As the Air Canada plane made its way over the Atlantic, the captain of the Boeing 767 from Toronto to Heathrow asked staff to seek out any trained pilots onboard.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A pilot can be heard on newly released cockpit recordings warning air traffic controllers that his plane was “going off the end” of the runway, the last words captured before the private jet crashed and killed four people.
Also among the eerie recordings are controllers at the Columbia, S.C., airport scrambling to divert other planes and summon emergency personnel after the jet shot off the runway in September, ripped through a fence and came to rest in flames.
A QantasLink plane made an emergency landing at Brisbane Airport last night, after smoke filled the cockpit.
- QantasLink plane emergency landing
- White smoke ‘filled the cabin’
- 35 passengers land in Brisbane
The Dash-8 aircraft, en route from Roma in central Queensland, touched down at 7.23pm, less than five minutes after the pilot contacted Air Traffic Control to request the emergency landing.
