If the pilot had to ditch MH 370 in water, perfect execution of the maneuver would have required a careful consideration of all the variables.
Can Airplanes Fly Upside Down? Inverted Flight Explained
What Happens in an Explosive Decompression during Flight?
10 Die in Russian Plane Crash: Antonov An-28
An Antonov-28 has crashed in Russia – with 10 dead, what caused this tragic crash?
A Twin Engine Beechcraft Baron Crashes at Millville Airport, New Jersey
A twin-engine Beechcraft Baron crashed in New Jersey on August 29th, killing the pilot and injuring the passenger – what caused the crash?
Single Engine Cessna 172 Crashes in Southern Ontario
Witnesses saw a single engine Cessna 172 in uncontrolled flight on Friday night in a field in Moorefield, southwest Ontario, Canada. Llori Nicholls, one of the witnesses, reported the airplane’s last horrific moments before it dived into the field to The Canadian Press. She said, “It was doing these spirals but really high up in the […]
Space Tourism: Space Flights to Sub-Orbital Levels
Are you ready for a flight into space? Virgin Galactic is making space tourism a reality with SpaceShipOne.
How Airplanes Manipulate Air to Achieve Flight
Flying an airplane is simplified through the use of in-cockpit devices, but mastering the essentials of rudder, elevators, and wings remains critical to pilots.
Need to Execute an Emergency Water Landing? Ditching Your Plane
Water may look smooth and calm from the sky, but when you’re in a plane, experiencing an all-engine failure, and your only option is to make a water landing, that very stretch of smooth and calm water is the last place you want to land.
Making an Emergency Landing After Engine Failure in a Cessna-172
So you’re flying solo in a Cessna – 172, far away from any runway, when the only propeller-driven engine you have fails. All that’s below you is forest, so what do you do?