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Boeing cargo plane forced to land at Istanbul without front landing gear Incident involving Boeing 767 jet operated by FedEx comes amid intense scrutiny of troubled planemaker Jasper Jolly and agencies Wed 8 May 2024 08.22 EDT Share A Boeing cargo plane has been forced to land at Istanbul airport without its front landing gear, in the latest setback for the embattled planemaker. Nobody was hurt in the incident, in a flight operated by the delivery company FedEx, according to Turkey’s transport ministry. The Boeing 767 aircraft, flying from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Wednesday, informed the traffic control...

DUBAI -- An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board, including 6 Americans, crash landed at Dubai's main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East's busiest airport. Authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely. Dubai-based Emirates said the accident happened around 12:45 p.m. local time as Flight EK521 was arriving from the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram.

For those interested in Hillary's health, I would like to call your attention to two posts by fellow freeper SERKIT that may deserve additional attention, if you have not already come across them. Both posts originate from a 7/23/2016 FREEREPUBLIC OP titled "Breaking News, Hillary Clinton Has Epileptic Seizure On Camera!" SERKIT Post 119 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3452121/posts?q=1&;page=101#119 SERKIT Post 103 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3452121/posts?q=1&;page=101#103 I had not come across this information before and I wanted to hilight it for anyone else who may be interested and hadn't had the chance to read it.

Sacre bleu! The plane that ended up perched on a villa roof after engine failure By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 9:23 PM on 28th June 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories This was the damage after a light aircraft came down in France today. The small plane crashed into a village in Vezenobres, a small town with a population of 1,400 near the Southern coast of France, this afternoon, and ended up perched on the roof a villa. No-one is believed to have been injured in the accident, which happened when the plane's engine failed.

Scandinavian Airlines said Sunday it will pull Bombardier Q400 turboprops from its fleet after a series of crash landings caused by landing gear malfunctions. The decision came a day after an SAS turboprop with 44 people on board crash-landed in Denmark when part of its landing gear collapsed, with one wing scraping the ground in a shower of sparks. All passengers and crew were evacuated safely. The same type of plane, also known as Dash 8, crash-landed twice last month and SAS temporarily grounded its fleet of turboprops. No one was seriously injured. "Confidence in the Q400 has diminished considerably...

A ROYAL Air Force Eurofighter crashed on landing in eastern England when its front wheel failed to descend properly, the Ministry of Defence in London said. The Typhoon jet suffered damage following a malfunction of its landing gear as it touched down at the RAF Coningsby base in Lincolnshire, eastern England, on Monday, an MoD spokesman told AFP. No one was hurt and an investigation was now under way into what caused the problem, he said. The Typhoon Eurofighter is produced by a consortium of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), BAE Systems and Italy's Alenia/Finmeccanica. It is...

<p>WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller has vowed to attend a key European Union summit next week, even in a body cast if must be, after injuring his spine in an emergency helicopter landing.</p> <p>Miller and 14 people were injured when a government helicopter carrying them crashed in a forest near Warsaw during the emergency landing, apparently due to an engine failure late on Thursday . No one was in critical condition.</p>