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Pilot holds New York hostage |
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28.05.2005 г. |
This is first airplane hostage situation in the history of the world with New York City as the hostage. That was how the police department described yesterday’s bizarre incident in which a dissatisfied Australian writer threatened to crash his aircraft into New York skyscraper. The first word of threat came at 10.20am when a police department official telephoned the United Nation and informed the Secretary General that a lunatic pilot in the area planed to fly his plane into UN building. The UN was evacuated, bomb disposal squads and fire teams moved into the UN grounds to cope with the threatened disaster. Traffic outside the UN was rerouted and no one was allowed on First Avenue but reporters. Then police corrected their original report. The target of the pilot Richard Boudin, was not the UN, but the publishing company of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, housed in a building two blocks from the UN. Mr. Boudin apparently felt, that his novel, Confessions of a Promiscuous Counterfeiter, was not getting enough publicity, so he chartered the plane at a New Jersey airport and radioed that he was going to destroy the publishing house. Soon after noon the president of the publishing company agreed to talk with Mr.Boudin, if he would land at La Guardia Airport. Mr.Boudin accepted and flew off, the crisis over. Police said Mr.Boudin would be charged with reckless endangerment and other offences.
(from an article by Jane Rosen in The Guardian - adapted) |
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Chipmunk lands in Heathrow darkness |
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28.05.2005 г. |
Officials are to investigate how a light aircraft landed undetected on an unlit runway at Heathrow Airport in London. The single engine de Havilland Chipmunk was found by a routine British Airports Authority patrol on the grass a few yards one of Heathrow’s two main runways. The runway closed at the time. Customs officials with dogs searched the aircraft, but police said there was no suggestion at the moment that it had been used for smuggling, or terrorist activities. But how did the plane land unnoticed at the world’s busiest airport? A spokeswoman for the Civil Aviation Authority, which is responsible for air traffic control, guessed that it must have touched down while there was ‘no known traffic – no scheduled flights taking off or landing – on the other, open runway. So radar monitoring was unnecessary. The authorities at Heathrow automatically prepared an invoice of landing and parking charges incurred by the Chipmunk. It came to under $50. But the CAA’s spokeswoman said: “Until the whole matter is resolved, we do not know whether the invoice will be sent to anyone, or if it is, to whom.”
(from an article by John Hooper in The Guardian - adapted) |
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Turbulence on taxiway! |
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29.05.2005 г. |
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For months after California's Northridge earthquake of 1994, aftershocks rocked the San Fernando Valley and Van Nuys Airport. One morning about three weeks after the initial quake there was a particularly sharp aftershock. Moments later on Van Nuys' ground control frequency: "Uh, four-three-kilo would like to file a pilot report for moderate turbulence on the east taxiway..."
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ATIS Hotel |
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29.05.2005 г. |
"ATIS" stands for "Automated Terminal Information Service," which is a recorded message broadcast at most busy airports around the country. ATIS gives pilots the current wind, air traffic, and runway information and each time the information changes, the broadcast is revised, with each revision being assigned the next letter in the phonetic alphabet. This designation is included in the broadcast, which is identified as, "Information Alpha..." Bravo, Charlie, etc. At ATIS-equipped airports, pilots are required to listen to the recording prior to contacting Approach Control or the tower and must repeat the "Information so-and-so" identifier when they make their initial radio call. Sometimes, the results can be hilarious...
The scenario: it was night over Las Vegas and "Information Hotel" was current on the ATIS. Mooney 33W wasn't too sharp, but he didn't let that stop him from talking to Approach Control.
Approach: "33W, confirm you have 'Hotel.'
33W: "Uhhhmm, we're flying into McCarren International. Uhhhmm, we don't have a hotel room yet."
After that, Approach was laughing too hard to respond. The next several calls went something like this call to United 583 (which didn't make it any easier to stop laughing)...
Approach: "United 583, descend to Flight Level 220."
United 583: "United 583, down to Flight Level 220. We don't have a hotel room, either."
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We saw some kind of dead animal |
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29.06.2005 г. |
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Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7." Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure ... by the way, after we lifted off, we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway." Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on 124.7; did you copy the report from Eastern?" Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff roger; and yes, we copied Eastern and we've already notified our caterers." |
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