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Army Report Links Pentagon Equipment Glitch to Aborted Landings at D.C. Airport
The diversion of two commercial flights on May 1 has raised new questions about equipment and safety in some of Washington’s ...
Misplaced antenna caused military controllers to lose contact with Black Hawk near DCA: report
A temporary control tower error caused an Army helicopter to lose contact, prompting two commercial planes to perform go-arounds at DCA.
Pentagon lost contact with Army helicopter on flight that caused jets to nix landings at DC airport
Military air traffic controllers lost contact with an Army helicopter for about 20 seconds as it neared the Pentagon on the flight that caused two commercial jets to abort their landings this month at ...
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NTSB finds ‘near zero’ oil in engine on Delta Boeing 717 following emergency landing
Investigators found no oil in the right-side Rolls-Royce BR715-C1 engine of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 717 following an ...
Smoke Reportedly Filled the Cabin of a Delta Plane and Was So Thick a Flight Attendant Had Trouble Seeing
A Delta flight taking off the Atlanta Hartsfield/Jackson International Airport in Georgia reported smoke filling the cabin ...
Delta Pilots Used Oxygen Masks as ‘Tremendous’ Amount of Smoke Filled Cabin
A Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta that was forced to double back and make an emergency landing in February was filled with ...
NTSB releases new report for Delta flight evacuated in Atlanta over ‘tremendous’ amount of smoke
The National Transportation Safety Board released the preliminary report for a Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to ...
No oil found in engine after Delta Air Lines flight filled with smoke, NTSB report finds
No oil was visible in the gauge on the right engine’s oil reservoir after a February Delta Air Lines flight filled with smoke ...
Delta flight that filled with smoke had "no oil visible" in right engine after emergency in Atlanta, NTSB report says
After a Delta flight made an emergency landing in Atlanta​ in February, a maintenance crew found there was barely any or ...
Smoke filled an SC-bound Delta jet that took off from Atlanta in February
The smoke that filled the cabin of a Delta Air Lines flight as it took off from Atlanta's main airport for South Carolina in ...
NTSB report details smoke-filled Delta flight that departed from Atlanta
Shortly after the smoke appeared, the NTSB said, the pilots got a low oil pressure alarm for the right engine, so they shut it down as they were returning to the airport. When maintenance personnel ...