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Aeroflot Flight 105
Aeroflot Flight 105 was an aviation accident involving an Ilyushin Il-12, Ilyushin Il-12P aircraft operated by Aeroflot, which occurred on June 9, 1958 near Magadan, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 24 people. Aircraft The Il-12P, with serial number 30082 and manufacturing number 082, was built by the "Banner of Labor" factory (Moscow) in 1947 in aviation, 1947. The airliner received the Aircraft registration, registration number CCCP-Л1364 and was transferred to the Main Directorate of Civil Air Fleet under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, which in turn assigned it to the Vnukovo Airlines, Vnukovo Aviation Unit of the Moscow Territorial Administration of the Civil Air Fleet. In April 1957, CCCP-Л1364 was transferred to the Dalavia, 198th (1st Khabarovsk) Aviation Unit of the Far Eastern Territorial Administration of the Civil Air Fleet. The aircraft had accumulated a total of 11,103 flight hours. Accident The aircraft was operating regular passenger flight 105 from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFIT
In aviation, a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT; usually ) is an accident in which an airworthy aircraft, fully under pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a body of water or other obstacle. In a typical CFIT scenario, the crew is unaware of the impending collision until impact, or it is too late to avert. The term was coined by engineers at Boeing in the late 1970s. Accidents where the aircraft is out of control at the time of impact, because of mechanical failure or pilot error, are classified instead as uncontrolled flight into terrain, or UFIT. Incidents resulting from the deliberate action of the person at the controls, such as a forced landing, an act of terrorism, or suicide by pilot, are also excluded from the definition of CFIT. According to Boeing in 1997, CFIT was a leading cause of airplane accidents involving the loss of life, causing over 9,000 deaths since the beginning of the commercial jet aircraft era. CFIT was identified as a cause of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nimbostratus Cloud
A nimbostratus cloud is a multilevel, amorphous, nearly uniform, and often dark-grey cloud that usually produces continuous rain, snow, or sleet, but no lightning or thunder. in the Oxford Dictionaries Online. Although it is usually a low-based stratiform cloud, it actually forms most commonly in the middle level of the troposphere and then spreads vertically into the low and high levels. Nimbostratus usually produces precipitation over a wide area. The prefix '' nimbo-'' comes from the Latin word ', which means "rain bearing cloud" Downward-growing nimbostratus can have the same vertical extent as most large upward-growing [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 1958
The following events occurred in June 1958: June 1, 1958 (Sunday) *French Army General Charles de Gaulle, who had retired after World War II to Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, was asked by President Coty to form a government as Prime Minister of France to restore order as a civil war was approaching. France's National Assembly approved De Gaulle's return by a vote of 329 to 224. In return for accepting the job, de Gaulle said that he wanted emergency powers to rule by decree. * Elections were held in Sweden for the 231-member ''Andra kammaren'', the Second Chamber or lower house of Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag. Though Prime Minister Tage Erlander's Social Democratic Party (the ''Socialdemokratiska Arbetareparti'' or S/SAP) gained five seats, its 111 was still five short of a majority. * Elections were held in Belgium for the 212-seat Chamber of Representatives and the 106 Senate seats. Prime Minister Achille Van Acker's Belgian Socialist Party and its coalition partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
