X-Nico

unusual facts about passenger aircraft



Twinjet

Thus far in the course of modern aviation history, two four-engine passenger aircraft, a British Airways Flight 9 in 1982 and a KLM Flight 867 in 1989, suffered engine failures due to volcanic dust ingestion.


see also

Aerocraft

Aero-Craft Aero-Coupe, an American, three-passenger aircraft introduced in 1928

Alexander Vasyunov

Vasyunov was killed on September 7, 2011 when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia.

Babalola Borishade

He was replaced on 2 November 2006, four days after the crash of an ADC Airlines Boeing 737 passenger aircraft, and moved to the Culture and Tourism ministry, trading positions with Femi Fani-Kayode.

Burnelli CBY-3

Lowell Yerex was a New Zealander who had formed TACA – Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos (Central American Air Transport) in Honduras in 1931, and joined the project when Burnelli convinced him that the CBY-3 could be used as both a cargo and passenger aircraft.

Daniil Sobchenko

On 7 September 2011, Sobchenko was killed when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed at Tunoshna Airport, just outside the city of Yaroslavl, Russia.

Emirates SkyCargo destinations

The airline also has scheduled cargo flights to 9 destinations, which do not receive service from Emirates passenger aircraft, namely: Campinas, Chittagong, Djibouti, Eldoret, Gothenburg, Kano, Lilongwe, Taipei and Zaragoza.

Fuchs Petrolub

Silkolene dedicated many years on technical cooperation with the US Air Force, and was also involved with the supersonic passenger aircraft, Concorde.

HSCT

High Speed Civil Transport, a NASA project to develop a supersonic passenger aircraft.

Kotzebue, Alaska

Kotzebue's Ralph Wien Memorial Airport is the one airport in the Northwest Arctic Borough with regularly scheduled large commercial passenger aircraft service to and from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and the Nome Airport.

L200

Let L-200 Morava, a two-engine touring and light passenger aircraft

Rockhampton Airport

A few weeks later, the aerodrome was again officially opened as Rockhampton Aerodrome, and the first passenger aircraft, a Fokker monoplane, Star of Cairns, landed.

Ruslan Salei

Salei died on September 7, 2011, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team of the Kontinental Hockey League except for player Maxim Zyuzyakin and goaltending coach Jorma Valtonen, crashed near Yaroslavl on its way to Minsk, Belarus, to start the 2011–12 KHL season.

Stefan Liv

On 7 September 2011, Liv was killed when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia.