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19, 2003 FORT
LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) -- A charter pilot resigned Friday after
a videotape surfaced apparently showing him sleeping during
a flight from the Bahamas while a co-pilot flew the plane. [Under
FAA regulations] when two pilots are necessary for a flight, then
they are both required to remain awake, alert and performing
their flight-related duties. -- Kathleen Bergen, FAA spokeswoman July 20, 2003 All 276 passengers on board a New York bound Pakistan International Airlines flight had a miraculous escape today when all ten tires of the Boeing 747 burst on takeoff, an airport official said. " All ten tyres of the plane PK-717 burst when it was about to takeoff for New York. The 276 passengers on board, including eight children and 19 crew members, are safe," Omar Daraz said. July 19, 2003VICTORIA (CP) -- A large water bomber crashed Wednesday with two people aboard while fighting a forest fire near the eastern B.C. town of Cranbrook. Capt. Alex Schenk of the Rescue Co-ordination Centre here said he was told the plane, a four-engine Lockheed Electra, may have exploded on impact. Under those circumstances it's unlikely the crew survived, said Peter Murphy, acting regional manager for the federal Transportation Safety Board. "It seems unlikely at this point, but I am not going to jump to that conclusion," said Murphy. "They have to confirm that. "This is a very large aircraft and it cruises at a pretty good clip." Schenk said he'd been told by RCMP that the effort was a recovery operation, not a search-and-rescue effort. But a Cranbrook RCMP spokesman said he could not confirm Schenk's information nor whether the crew had been killed. Murphy said the crash apparently happened just after the plane dumped a load of flame-retardant materials. Tankers normally fly low to the ground during fire-fighting runs and the plane could have had as much as 8,000 kilograms of fuel on board, said Murphy. |
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