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RecordBreaking Flight of the Voyager This Day in Tech History
The Airbus A330 Voyager aircraft (similar to the one pictured) plummeted 4,400ft in a matter of seconds A board of RAF officers at Bulford, Wiltshire, heard crew and passengers thought they were.
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Rutan Voyager Completed First Ever Global Flight On One Load Of Fuel On D1A
On 9 February 2014, the Captain of a military variant of the Airbus A330 suddenly lost control during the cruise on a passenger flight. A violent, initially negative 'g', pitch down occurred which reached 15800 fpm as the speed rose to Mach 0.9.
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Today In History, Dec. 23 "Twas the Night Before Christmas" News
The Airbus A330 MRTT is a military derivative of the A330-200 airliner. It is designed as a dual-role air-to-air refuelling and transport aircraft. For air-to-air refuelling missions, the A330 MRTT can be equipped with a combination of any of the following systems: [citation needed] Refuelling other aircraft
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Voyager A Plane That Flew Around The World Without Refueling THE
How A Camera Sent This Passenger Jet Into A Terrifying NoseDive | RAF Voyager 333.. TIL Of TACA Flight 110, a miraculous non-disaster where a 737-300 with 45 aboard had both engines flame out from hail damage; the one-eyed pilot navigated through severe thunderstorms and violent turbulence, gliding the plane to a safe landing on a grass.
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Royal Air Force KC2 Voyager (Airbus A330200MRTT) Arriving + Departing
On 9 th February 2014, a British RAF Voyager ZZ333 transporting a number of British Service Personnel to Afghanistan pitched down 4,440 feet over the Black Sea. The 9 crew members and 189 military personnel on board were thrown into chaos. Several were lifted out of their seats and stuck to the roof.
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ZZ333 Royal Air Force Airbus KC2 Voyager (A330243MRTT) Photo by Piz
Discover the bizarre story behind Voyager Flight 333 as it defies all known laws of aviation. Join us on a captivating journey of unexplained phenomena and mind-boggling discoveries.
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Voyager The Extraordinary Story of a Flight Around the World
PA The Airbus A330 Voyager aircraft (similar to the one pictured) plummeted 4,400ft in a matter of seconds Nigel Lickley QC, prosecuting, said the incident led to the grounding of the military.
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ZZ333 Royal Air Force Airbus Voyager KC2 (A330243MRTT) Photo by Werner
Voyager Flight 333 Like Comment Share 1.4K · 52 comments · 75K views MenTour Pilot 6d Follow Embark The The Mysterious Journey Of Voyager Flight 333 Comments Most relevant Author MenTour Pilot The list of contributory factors to the incident is a long one! Do you think the measures taken are appropriate? 4 1w 5 Replies Ben Heideveld
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ZZ333 Royal Air Force Airbus Voyager KC2 (A330243MRTT) Photo by Keith
Flight Lieutenant Andrew Townshend caused his Airbus Voyager - a militarised A330 airliner - to plummet 4,400 feet in 33 seconds during a flight to Afghanistan, Bulford Military Court Centre was told. At one point, the aircraft plunged at a rate of 15,000 feet per minute, according to an interim probe.
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30th Anniversary of Voyager Flight YouTube
A British pilot for the Royal Air Force is to be court-martialed for an incident that sent the Airbus A330 Voyager tanker under his command into a dive that slammed more than two dozen people.
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Airbus A330 Voyager KC3 MRTT RAF Royal Air Force departure at RIAT 2015
The aircraft departed from RAF Brize Norton, U.K., bound for Camp Bastion, Afghanistan at 12:00 hrs. Initially, the flight progressed without incident, with the exception of at least one instance of turbulence, significant enough to warrant the illumination of the seat belt signs.
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RAF Voyager Ascot821 ZZ333 & Ascot 921 ZZ330 RAF Mildenhall
3rd March 2017 at 4:29pm The pilot of an RAF Voyager that plummeted thousands of feet in a matter of seconds while en route to Afghanistan has been dismissed from the RAF by a court martial and given a 4-month jail sentence suspended for 12 months. Flight Lieutenant Andrew Townshend pleaded guilty to negligently performing his duty.
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RAF Voyager ZZ333 Incident Deadline for civil claims looms on 9
The Strange case of Voyager Flight 333 Mentour Pilot 1.67M subscribers Subscribe Subscribed 1.4M views 7 months ago #passengers #weightlessness Go to https://brilliant.org/MentourPILOT/ to get a.
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Flight Lieutenant Andrew Townshend was captain of an Airbus A330 Voyager which dropped 4,400 feet in about 30 seconds during a flight from the UK to Afghanistan in 2014. Townshend was bored and taking photos with a DSLR on the flight deck while his co-pilot was making a cup of tea in the galley.
The Voyager story The Loop Newspaper
"The incident involving Voyager ZZ333 occurred on 9 February 2014 when the aircraft suddenly pitched down while in the cruise at Flight Level 330 (33,000ft)," the UK Military Aviation Authority.
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How A Camera Sent This Passenger Jet Into A Terrifying NoseDive RAF
The Voyager Flight 333 experienced a problem with the IFF system during startup, but after troubleshooting, the flight proceeded smoothly for eight hours with the crew communicating with air traffic control and passengers being served a meal and having access to in-flight entertainment.