(There are updates from CASA and the ATSB at the end of this post.)
Wednesday night’s ditching of a Pel-Air CareFlight medivac Westwind jet is being turned into a media circus by the airline and some very susceptible reporters.
First reported in the Crikey subscriber email today, the incident which left six people, half of them without [...]
The perfect precedent for the recent Hudson River ditching of a US Airways jet occurred on 16 October, 1956, when a Pan American World Airways Stratocruiser ended up in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Honolulu and San Francisco.
The story behind these images appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. It was a different era in flight. [...]
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