Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 meters, or 31,237 feet, his team announced Wednesday. The SolarStratos plane made the landmark flight from Sion airport in southwest Switzerland on Tuesday, taking advantage of warm air thermals to go beyond the record that has stood for …
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Investigators probing the January midair collision of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter over Washington that killed 67 people found the chopper was flying higher than it should have been and its altitude readings were inaccurate. The details came out of the first day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings in Washington, where investigators aim to uncover insights into …
Read More »US probes Army helicopter altitude data in fatal January crash with jet Reuters Less than a second before hitting a passenger jet, helicopter instructor told pilot to change course, NTSB hearing reveals CNN Helicopter in fatal Washington plane crash was flying too high The Telegraph ‘It’s going to be a gut punch’: Families of Flight 5342 brace for days-long NTSB investigative hearing WAVY.com Helicopter …
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