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  • Mysterious Midair Dent in Jetliner’s Nose

    07/08/2008 10:39:50 PM PDT · by george76 · 34 replies · 47+ views
    The New York Times ^ | July 7, 2008 | Micheline Maynard
    Don’t blame a bird for the punch that the Northwest Airlines plane took in the nose on Sunday. Northwest is now examining the dented nose cone of a Boeing 757 jet that was damaged during a flight from Detroit to Tampa. Images snapped by passengers... show the front tip of the plane looking a bit like a beer cup smashed in after a football game. Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the F.A.A. in Atlanta, said pilots heard a bang when the plane was at 18,000 feet during its descent into Tampa. Its radar went out, prompting the crew to suspect...
  • A boom and a vapour trail as missiles just miss their mark

    11/28/2002 8:30:27 PM PST · by Lessismore · 33 replies · 379+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Friday November 29, 2002 | Stuart Millar and Richard Norton-Taylor
    Attempt to bring down passenger jet exposes new terrorism danger Arkia Airlines flight IZ582 was just passing through the 500ft mark as it climbed out of Mombasa airport bound for Tel Aviv when passenger Ezra Gozlan heard a distinct boom from outside. As the plane shook, he looked up, just in time to see a small trail of smoke to the left of the Boeing 757 charter jet. "It went about one metre above the wing ... It was a bazooka or something like that," the 62-year-old Israeli said yesterday. "I said to someone 'It's a missile', but he said...