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Just as the fighter jets were about to scramble, air traffic control at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport reestablished radio contact with the plane at 8:14 p.m. CDT, by which time the flight was over Eau Claire, Wisconsin, roughly 100 miles (160 km) east of Minneapolis. Captain Timothy Cheney and first officer Richard Cole said that ...
5. On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
National Ambient Air Quality Standards. US counties that are designated "nonattainment" for the Clean Air Act's NAAQS, as of September 30, 2017. The U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards ( NAAQS, pronounced / ˈnæks / naks) are limits on atmospheric concentration of six pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards. [1]
Delta Air Lines Flight 79: Fifteen minutes after takeoff from Berlin on April 10, 2010, Bert Niepel, 51, of Berlin, decided to sit in first class despite having an economy-class ticket, believing he deserved an upgrade. He refused repeated requests from crew to move back to his assigned seat, and eventually assaulted a flight attendant.
Once again, Delta Air Lines earned the top spot for having 84.72% of its over 1.4 million flights arriving on time (or within 15 minutes of the scheduled arrival or departure time) in 2023.
May 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM. Dangerous wildfires have scorched tens of thousands of acres and are closing in on multiple Canadian towns, forcing thousands of evacuations and degrading air quality. The ...
Delta Air Lines scored highest in both the first/business class and premium economy segments in J.D. Power’s survey, earning 743 points in the former and 716 points in the latter out of a ...
The United States Army Air Forces took control of the airport and established Charlotte Air Base in early 1941, which was renamed Morris Field soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The US military invested more than $5 million in airfield improvements by the time the facility was returned to the City of Charlotte in 1946. [11]