Early indications are that the Lion Air jet's approach was normal until perhaps the last minutes of the flight, said safety experts who have reviewed publicly available data.
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Since 2005, only a handful of serious accidents followed pilots landing short of a runway, all of which involved regional airliners with fewer seats than the Lion Air jet.
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Finally, our Royal Air Force jet was ready to take us to our destination.
At that point, the captain of the Air Canada jet and the C-17 pilots flashed their planes' landing lights at each other to acknowledge their position.
In 1978, an Air India jumbo jet exploded in mid-air near Bombay, killing 213.
That's because it's now possible to take part in private jet timeshares through companies like Trans-Exec Air Service and Marquis Jet.
You can say the same for the automobile, the radio, the telephone and telegraph, jet air travel.
As quickly as that, the C-17 passed underneath the Air Canada jumbo jet with 103 people on board.
With a focus on profits rather than revenues, the company intentionally limits the hours in the air for each jet.
In 1953, jet flight experts were struggling to understand why a number of Comet airliners had inexplicably crashed, throwing the entire prospect of commercial jet air travel into doubt.
Dubbed Air Sarko One, the new jet features a double bedroom, an air-conditioned smoking room and an anti-missile system.
Most famous of these, of course is Air Force One, the official jet transport -- though actually there are two Air Force Ones, both modified Boeing 747-400s -- of the President of the United States of America.
Spreading the area of air pressure over the jet staggers the sound waves and decreases the intensity of the boom.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said that both the White House and the presidential jet, Air Force One, had been targeted in the attacks.
If a camera detects a blemish on a chip, it sends a signal to one of the airhoses under the conveyor, and a jet of air blows the chip off onto the floor.
This creates a jet of hot air which passes over an airfoil-shaped ramp channelling its direction.
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The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
The minister also said that a promised merger announced last month between two private domestic carriers, Jet Airways and Air Sahara , would be permitted.
The jet itself moves air effectively like a set of lungs.
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Clinton landed at Chaklala Air Base in an unmarked executive jet, safely behind an identical decoy aircraft.
The company has shipped its jet fuel to the Air Force, which has tested it in A-10 aircraft.
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Napolitano has said there was no air marshal assigned to the Northwest jet.
Once the jet engine allowed mass air travel, pampering and soothing stopped and the whiff of romance became an advertising copywriter's fiction.
On that occasion, a privately-owned former Soviet air force L-39 military jet trainer came to rest on the motorway after going through the boundary fence at Duxford.
On most jet aircraft, hot air from the engines is routed through piping in the wings, tail and engine openings to heat their surfaces and prevent icing.
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) jet engines today are 40 percent more fuel-efficient than those designed in the 1960s, with pollutants such as soot and sulphur now almost completely eliminated from jet exhaust.
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Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might. ( Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) has since cranked out more than 4, 000 of them).
His private jet is often in the air before the parking lot is empty, with four days before the next week's cycle.
In jet aircraft, purifying cabin air would save on fuel needed to compress fresh air bled from the engine to ventilate the cabin.
The aircraft experienced a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana on Friday, raining jet fuel over Virginia Beach before plunging to the ground, according to residents and Navy officials.
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