High Gallery Pictures: Amazing United States Military Aircraft

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Bizarre airplanes crashes photos collection.

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All Russian Aircraft  in action at air show.

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Paragliding accidents video collection.

Paragliding Crash in Gastein

Paragliding Accident from Camera

The Paraglider  open the second parachute.

Synchro Spiral Exercises Crash

Catastrophic landing.

Paragliding fatal landing

Your chances of being involved in an aircraft accident are about 1 in 11 million. On the other hand, your chances of being killed in an automobile accident are 1 in 5000. Statistically, you are at far greater risk driving to the airport than getting on an airplane. However, the perception is that you have more control over your fate when you are in your car than as a passenger traveling on an airplane. Experience shows otherwise, considering that over 50,000 people are killed on the highways every year.

Is GA (General Aviation) Flying Safer Than Driving?

The airline industry likes to point out that, despite some passengers’

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apprehension, flying in an airliner is actually safer than driving a car. Some pilots of small planes ‘recall’ this argument, and mistakenly apply it to General Aviation (i.e. flying that isn’t the scheduled airlines or military, typically “little planes” and “biz jets”).

Is it true? Is our “little plane” flying safer than driving a car?

Raw stats

For GA accident stats, we’ll use the 2005 Nall Report (available at http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/nall.html), which reports on accidents from calendar year 2004.

For driving, we’ll use 2004 statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), available here.

According to the Nall report, in 2004:

there were 1413 GA fixed-wing accidents

of these accidents, 290 involved fatalities

these fatal accidents accounted for 510 fatalities

the FAA estimates 25.9M GA flight hours

According to the NHTSA, in 2004:

there were 6.1M accidents

1.9M involved injuries

38253 involved fatalities

there were 42636 fatalities in motor vehicle accidents, breaking down to:

33134 “occupants” (car/truck drivers and passengers)

4008 “motorcycle riders”

5494 “non-occupants” (e.g. pedestrians)

an estimated 2.9T vehicle miles traveled

an estimated 10.0B motorcycle vehicle miles traveled.

So in 2004, 510 people died in 290 GA accidents, while 42636 died in 6.1M motor vehicle accidents. Of course, to determine risk level, we have to convert this into a rate, as there was a whole lot more driving done in 2004 than there was GA plane flying. Read the rest of this entry »

Antonov An-225 “Mriya” is the world’s largest aircraft. When it was built, it surpassed any airliner built before by 50%. It was designed for the transportation of the Russian Space Shuttle “Buran” by the Antonov Design Bureau (HQ in Kiev, Ukraine), which already had built good and large cargo aircraft such as the Antonov An-124 “Ruslan”. The basic configuration of the An-225 is the same as the An-124, except the An-225 is longer, has no rear ramp/door assembly, and incorporates a 32-wheel landing gear system (two nose and fourteen main wheel bogies, seven per side, each with two wheels).

An-225 “Mriya” (”Mriya” is Ukrainian word for “dream) is also capable to transport other oversized objects/cargo. It is not a military aircraft, but it could find many military uses, because of the ability to transport cargo that no other aircraft is capable to.

NATO Code: Cossack

An-225 Weights
Max. take off weight — 600000kg
An-225 Performance
Max. speed - 528mph (850km/h), range with max payload - 2425nm (4500km), range with no cargo - 8310nm (15400km).
An-225 Dimensions
Wingspan 290 ft (88.4m), lenght — 84,00m, height — 18,10.
An-225 Powerplants
6x Progress-D-18T
An-225 Production
Only one was built since 1989, but a second one is now being built

Video:

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• An Air France plane carrying 228 people from Brazil to France has vanished over the Atlantic after flying into turbulence, airline officials say.

• The Airbus sent an automatic message at 0214 GMT, four hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro, reporting a short circuit. It may have been damaged by lightning.

• Air France flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went down with 228 people aboard. Debris from the Airbus SAS A330-200 aircraft was found about 650 kilometers (405 miles) northeast of Brazil’s Fernando de Noronha island. Read the rest of this entry »
  
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A collection of the airplanes crash videos.

A dramatic rescue 300ft above New York harbour took place on the Statue of Liberty today, after a paraglider crashed into its famous torch.

The man was left hanging for 45 minutes by the ropes attaching him to the parachute, which was caught on the gold-plated torch of the New York landmark.

Shocked tourists watched as the man, with a motorised propeller attached to his back, pulled himself almost 20ft to safety.

He was then pulled by park rangers and police on to the balcony surrounding the torch.

His bright pink parachute was left hanging on the statue for another 10 minutes after his rescue.

After the rescue he was handcuffed and taken into custody.

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Date: February 25, 2009       Time: 10:31
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Operator: Turkish Airlines       Flight: 1951
AC Type: Boeing 737-8F2
Reg: TC-JGE       cn: 29789/1065
Aboard: 135     Fatalities: 9     Ground: 0
Route: Istanbul, Turkey - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Details:
The plane was on final approach to Runway 18R when it crashed 1 mile short of the runway into a field and broke in three. Nine people were killed and 55 injured. The cause of the crash is as yet unknown.

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