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Her husband died at their plane’s controls. What happened over the next two hours was nothing short of a miracle

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — This is terror: 20,000 feet in the air, pilot unconscious, the cold, vast Pacific Ocean dead ahead and nowhere to turn for help except to the increasingly faint, ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Man with autism grabs plane's controls, triggering emergency response at Norwood Airport, spokesman says

COME IN AND SKY 5 OVER AN INCIDENT AT NORWOOD AIRPORT THIS AFTERNOON. WE BROUGHT YOU THIS FIRST AT NOON, A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE TOWN SAYS THE INCIDENT HAPPENED DURING A FREE PROMOTIONAL FLIGHT FOR A ...
The Columbian

Plane lost control, flew into trees in fatal crash at Goheen Field north of Battle Ground, FAA report says

A plane crashed shortly after 1 p.m. Friday at Goheen Field, a privately owned airport north of Battle Ground. One person was killed in the crash. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files) A plane that ...
Business Insider

A Delta plane made an emergency descent after leaky bathrooms jammed its controls and shut down the autopilot

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New York Post

Flight school plane lands near Boston after autistic man grabs controls mid-flight

A small plane managed to avoid disaster after an autistic man grabbed the aircraft’s controls mid-air. The pilot of a single-engine Cessna Skyhawk touched down Friday morning at Norwood Memorial ...
Nature

Aircraft Performance and Flight Control Systems

Modern aerospace engineering increasingly relies on the seamless integration of advanced performance modelling with state‐of‐the‐art flight control systems. These systems optimise aerodynamic ...