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What is an aircraft stall?
A stall is the result of an aircraft losing lift and starting to lose altitude.
For an aircraft, a stall is one of the most potentially serious events, much more so than the turbulence that so frightens passengers. Potentially only,...
How are planes tracked in flight?
Air traffic control has various means of tracking aircraft in flight, so as to be able to deal with any eventuality, even if it can still happen that an aircraft accidentally disappears from radar.
Long gone are the days when...
AF447: The emotion, 6 years later
Few words come to me, just a deep emotion for the passengers and crew members of the Air France flight 447 that was supposed to fly from Rio to Paris, which crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean...