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Plane makes emergency landing after crew bang on cockpit door over comms problem
A Los Angeles-bound flight made an emergency landing Monday after its pilots lost a radio link with flight staff, prompting them to bang on the locked cockpit door and raising fears that someone was trying to break in.Flight 6469 set off from Omaha, Nebraska at 7:23 p.m. ET but turned around and landed back at Eppley Airfield just 36 minutes later, according to FlightRadar.The American Airlines flight was operated by the regional carrier SkyWest. SkyWest said in a statement that the flight "returned to Omaha out of abundance of caution after experiencing communication issues with a flight crew mic. The flight later continued to Los Angeles. We apologize for the inconvenience."American Airlines did not immediately respond to overnight requests for comment.SkyWest plane in Omaha, Nebraska on Oct. 20, 2025.@jean_lee1 / via XThe Federal Aviation Administration...
NASA G-IV Plane Will Carry Next-Generation Science Instrument
NASA Space Technology In June 2024, a new tail number swept the sky above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Pilots conducted flights of a Gulfstream IV (G-IV) to evaluate its handling characteristics and to familiarize pilots with it before it begins structural modifications. The research plane is joining the center’s fleet serving NASA’s Airborne Science program.The G-IV will carry the Next Generation Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR-NG), which sends and receives microwave signals to collect information about Earth’s topographic features and how they change over time. The goal for the team at NASA Armstrong is to modify the G-IV to accommodate three radars simultaneously.“The AIRSAR-NG will be composed of three different Synthetic Aperture Radar antennas in one instrument to provide new insight into Earth’s surface more efficiently,” said Yunling Lou, principal investigator...
Sao Paulo plane crash: All 61 on board killed, World News
Top Stories Tamfitronics SAO PAULO - A regional turboprop plane crashed near Sao Paulo in Brazil on Friday (Aug 9), killing all 61 people on board, the airline said.Regional carrier Voepass said the plane, bound for Sao Paulo's international airport, took off from Cascavel, in the state of Parana, and crashed at around 1.30pm (1630 GMT) in the town of Vinhedo, some 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo.Video shared on social media showed the ATR-72 aircraft spinning out of control as it plunged down behind a cluster of trees near houses, followed by a large plume of black smoke.Nearby resident Daniel de Lima said he heard a loud noise before looking outside his condominium in Vinhedo when he saw the plane in a horizontal spiral."It was rotating, but it wasn't moving forward," he told Reuters....
Diverted plane was reportedly refused refueling over politics
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