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The Boeing 787, carrying 219 passengers and 11 crew members, encountered trouble as it ascended to 10,000 feet. The pilots ...
The Munich-bound flight from Washington Dulles Airport landed safely after more than 30 minutes in the air on July 25 ...
A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was forced to make an emergency landing on July 25 after one of its engines failed ...
A United Airlines Boeing 787 completed two loops over the Dulles airport before making a safe emergency landing to ensure ...
A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner declared a Mayday shortly after takeoff from Washington due to a left engine ...
Flight UA108, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, had departed from Washington Dulles on July 25 for Munich when the crew reported a ...
The flight named UA108, had reached an altitude of 5,000 feet when the crew declared an emergency and reported a malfunction ...
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner nearly crashed just moments after taking off because of an engine failure. The United Airlines plane ...
Recognize a mayday situation; Properly declare a mayday; Properly communicate via portable radio and verbal transmission; Identify the 10 self-survival steps that firefighters must follow when ...
The pilot of a plane that crashed in Colombia killing all but six of the people on board told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel just moments before the disaster. An audio recording of ...
Mayday training is often something departments do a couple times a year, or less. The Tulsa Fire Department found that repeated mayday training identified specific problems with radio operations ...
Mayday operations must be performed in the context of these failures. The volatility and uncertainty of these failures can cascade into an extremely dangerous rapid-intervention response.