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Only the Coconut Crabs Really Know Where Amelia Earhart Is
Just as a biopic of her life is released, a group of researchers claim to have found the spot in the western Pacific where Amelia Earhart disappeared on an attempted round-the-world flight in 1937. As the Discovery Channel points out, the awkwardly-acronymed The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) said it has evidence that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, made a forced landing on a coral atoll called Nikumaroro - part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati - and became castaways and eventually succumbed to disease, thirst, hunger, or injury.
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BA Jet Crash Lands at London City Airport, All Aboard Okay
Passengers and crew on a British Airways flight arriving in London Friday night got a serious scare as the plane's nose wheel collapsed during landing, sending the Avro 146 RJ100 skidding down the runway until it came to a stop. None of the 67 passengers and four crew members were killed, but one suffered minor injuries during the evacuation, which involved those deployable exit slides that would probably be a lot of fun outside of emergency situations. The flight originated in Amsterdam and was touching down at London City Airport, a single-runway airport for STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) airliners that primarily serves the city's financial district, when the nose gear buckled with a resounding boom.
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Perfect Belly Landing at Fulton County Airport
As a pilot, if you landing gear doesn't come down you can hit the panic button with a sledge hammer, or you can execute a belly landing. The pilot in the above clip chose the latter and executed an absolutely immaculate emergency belly landing at Fulton County Airport just west of Atlanta.
Here is the most picture-perfect emergency landng I think I've ever seen. Beech KingAir undercarriage doesn't come down, pilot lands it like he's done it a million times before.
Here is hoping no one is ever in the above situation, but if you do, try to handle it like this pilot did.
