Plane crashes on highway On Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, near Los Angeles, California, a single-engine passenger plane crashed on Highway 91 while making an emergency landing due to engine failure. The aircraft struck a van before igniting. Luckily, no one was hurt.
The world’s most dangerous landing Paro, Bhutan: Due to the geographical difficulties surrounding the Paro International Airport, only 17 pilots worldwide are allowed to fly a plane there.
Cessna pilot lands for emergency pee on busy freeway This small Cessna made an emergency landing on a crowded I-20 W in heavy Christmas traffic near Anniston. The plane barely missed a few cars and landed perfectly. The two men inside said it was a student pilot’s first flight and they had engine failure. They were remarkably calm. The student was the first to exit the plane. He immediately got out and peed on the side of the road. We helped move the plane from the side of the road after everyone was deemed safe.
An airline pilot forgets to pressurize his plane The crew of an aircraft of the Indian airline jet Airways simply forgot to pressurize the aircraft during takeoff causing a moment of panic among the passengers. The aircraft flew 45 minutes before landing an emergency landing. Passengers suffered from bleeding at nose and ears.
A Boeing 737 ends its landing at the edge of a cliff A passenger plane has skidded off the runway of Trabzon airport in Turkey, becoming stuck on a steep slope over the Black Sea. No passengers or crew were hurt in the incident, which occurred on Saturday night
How a Million Pound 747-8 Tests It’s Brakes "Watch this amazing video of what happens when Boeing wants to make sure the carbon ceramic brakes on its new Boeing 747-8 work under the worst possible conditions. Specifically, Boeing has to simulate the worst possible conditions: a rejected take-off with no reverse thrusters on worn-out brakes. The result? Red-hot 2,552 degree brakes. Yowch! Boeing's 747-8 is the latest and most economical version of company's popular jumbo jet. As part of the testing procedure they have to put a maximum load on the landing gear to make sure it'll hold up in an emergency. To simulate the worst case scenario, the aircraft is fully fueled to the maximum weight (about 975K pounds), the brakes are worn down 100%, and a pilot is told to accelerate to a takeoff speed of 200 mph and then slam on the completely toasted brakes as if it were part of an aborted takeoff. Normally, the pilot would try to use reverse thrust to stop the plane and fire crews would be on hand within three minutes to start putting out the fire. In this experiment they assume the thrusters don't work and the fire crews are a full five minutes away. The result? It stopped about 700 feet short of the estimated length as the brakes glowed under the 1,400C (2,552F) heat."
Airbus A340 EMERGENCY – Engine Failure On the way from Zurich to Shanghai during the flight was an increased oil temperature found in engine 3. The flight had to be canceled, a landing was necessary. Then the flight was continued with a new plane. The video shows the entire approach to the landing, in an exceptional situation.
Etihad Boeing 777 Lightning Strike On approach into Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport on the 3rd of February 2016 our Etihad Airways Flight Number 37 from Abu Dhabi International airport our Boeing 777 was struck by lightening on the wingtip. The plane went on to make a safe landing in Paris shortly after.
One of the biggest computational fluid dynamics simulation made on a super computer This is one of the largest CFD simulations ever, on the world's largest GPU server, the GigaIO SuperNODE, equipped with 32x AMD Instinct MI210 64GB GPUs, for a total of 2TB of VRAM. The simulation shows the Concorde (62m long) before landing at a speed of 300km/h and an angle of attack of 10°, for 1 second in flight. The span-based Reynolds number is 146 million.
The dilemma of artificial intelligence "Now it's like getting on a plane, 50% of the engineers who designed it think there's a 10% chance it will disintegrate, would you get on that plane?"