Friday, May 27, 2016

Small WWII-era plane crashes in Hudson River; body recovered

NEW YORK (AP) — A small World War II vintage plane taking part in celebrations of its 75th anniversary flew a partial loop while smoke spewed from it and then crashed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey on Friday, and divers recovered a body from its sunken wreckage, police and witnesses said.
The single-seat plane, a P-47 Thunderbolt, crashed on a part of the river near where a US Airways commercial jet carrying 155 people splash-landed safely in 2009 in what became known as the Miracle on the Hudson.
A witness to the P-47 Thunderbolt crash, Hunter College student Siqi Li, saw smoke spewing from the plane and thought it was doing a trick. "It made kind of a U-turn, and then there was a stream of smoke coming from it," Li told the Daily News. "It was tilting down toward the water. I thought they were doing some sort of trick. I didn't realize it at first, but it was a plane crash."
Scuba divers recovered the body of a 56-year-old man from the submerged plane about three hours later, New York Police Department Detective Michael Debonis said. Police hadn't confirmed the body was that of the pilot, the only person who was aboard the plane.
The body was taken back to the New York shore via police boat. Several police officers carried a stretcher to the dock. The Federal Aviation Administration said the P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, which went down near the George Washington Bridge around 7:30 p.m., was among three planes that had departed from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, on Long Island, just east of New York City. The other two aircraft returned to the airport and landed safely.
The American Airpower Museum is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the P-47 Thunderbolt this weekend. Museum spokesman Gary Lewi said the plane was kept at the museum and was taking part in an air show at nearby Jones Beach this weekend.
"Apparently the aircraft suffered an inflight engine failure," Lewi said. "I'm told the aircraft is at the bottom of the Hudson." The three planes, the P-47, a P-40 and a photo plane, had been flying over the Hudson to shoot promotional material for the Jones Beach air show, Lewi said. The identity of the pilot of the plane that crashed was being withheld, he said.
North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue co-director Jeff Welz told The Jersey Journal that firefighters and the Coast Guard responded after the Friday night crash. He said the plane sank "pretty quickly."
The P47-Thunderbolts were the heaviest single-engine fighter planes used by Allied forces in World War II. They first went into service in 1942, with the 56th Fighter Group based on Long Island. The one that crashed in the river flew periodically, including to other air shows, Lewi said.

Monday, April 4, 2016

5 killed in tourist helicopter crash in Smoky Mountains

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A sightseeing helicopter crashed Monday near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee, killing all five people aboard, officials said. The Bell 206 helicopter crashed about 3:30 p.m. near Sevierville, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said in an email. Officials said the tourist helicopter was destroyed by fire after the crash.

Monday, March 28, 2016

Daily info

What's the difference between a fighter pilot and God? 
God doesn't think He's a fighter pilot.


Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Jet powered by Amtjets

 
                   The jets are used in model airplanes

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Did you say flyby?





Friday, March 4, 2016

Blue Angel's C130 JATO

Ever seen a slight Hercules take off ?Like ✔ Aircraft Technologies (y)

Posted by Aircraft Technologies on Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Boeing 727 gone but not forgotten.



Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Golden rules if you dream to be a commercial pilot


1th - You won't have a personal life, family or sentimental.
2th - You will not see your kids grow up.
3th - You won't have a holiday, weekends, or any other type of rest.
4º - You'll get gastritis, if you're lucky. If it's like all the rest you'll have an ulcer.
5th - The rush will be your only friend and main meals will be the snacks.
6th - Your hair will be white before time, that if you have hair.
7th - Tour mental health will be put in check before completing 10 years of work.
8th - Sleep will be a rest period, then, you won't sleep.
9th - Work will be your favorite thing, maybe your only 
thing.
10th - People will be divided into 2 Types: those who understand of planes, and those who don't understand. And you will see grace in that.
11th - The booth will be your best partner of work.
12th - Dell's, Ipads and airports will be excellent opportunities to have some kind of contact with other crazy people like you.
13º - You'll have a dream, with CB's, check list's manuals and not weird, you solve problems of flight in this period of sleep.
14th - Exhibit dark circles as a war trophy.
15th - and the worst (best)........ Inexplicably you'll like
all that lot!

Thursday, February 25, 2016

For the first time in the history of Brunei, a predominantly Muslim nation, the crew in command of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of Royal Brunei Airlines was composed entirely by females. Were the captain Sharifah Czarena, the first officer Sariana and also first officer DK Nadiah. Made the flight bi081 from Brunei to Jeddah.
Today in 1965: Was the first flight of the Douglas Dc9, One of the most successful aircraft of its era.



Wednesday, February 24, 2016

lol
Remains found of the Tara Air Crane Twin Otter, in Nepal.23 were aboard.

Three aircraft maintenance technicians were hospitalized after fire breaks out on a plane in the Cessna Citation Service Center in Orlando International Airport, FL.

ouch


Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Palatka, FL: Pilot of cirrus deployed the parachute from the plane after engine failure this morning. He fell in the yard of a house and came out unharmed.