• rudder is used to regain coordinated flight. A basic means of controlling an aircraft with disabled flight controls is making use of the position of the...
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    fundamentals of aircraft controls are explained in flight dynamics. This article centers on the operating mechanisms of the flight controls. The basic system...
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    Russian invasion of Ukraine Flight with disabled controls List of airliner shootdown incidents Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over...
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    the other. Aircraft engine controls Aircraft flight control systems Aircraft flight mechanics Flight with disabled controls Ship motions Six degrees of...
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    scrapped in 2001. United Airlines Flight 232 Flight with disabled controls "Aircraft Accident Report-Eastern Airlines Flight 935, Lockheed L-1011-385, N309EA...
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    aircraft. Flight with disabled controls United Airlines Flight 232 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Japan Airlines Flight 123 Eastern Air Lines Flight 935 2003...
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    caused a fire. All three hydraulic systems lost pressure, and flight controls were disabled. The aircraft pitched rapidly up and down in a roller-coaster...
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    hydraulic systems and ejected the vertical stabiliser. With many of the aircraft's flight controls disabled, the aircraft became uncontrollable.: 128  In an...
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    failure to correct the controls as well as the airspeed. An update which would disengage the GO-AROUND autopilot if certain controls were moved, which would...
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    failures during its flight and, as a result, it nearly collided with an American Airlines Boeing 777. The pilots continued their flight to Bristol and executed...
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    tank and causing the loss of all three hydraulic systems. With the flight controls disabled, the crew used differential thrust to execute a safe landing...
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    Aileron (category Aircraft controls)
    ultralight aircraft. Flight with disabled controls has been successful in a small number of aviation incidents. Reaction control valves as used in the...
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    critical sensors and flight instruments to fly the aircraft as well as enough hydraulic pressure to operate the primary flight controls (without which the...
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    decided to continue the flight to Warsaw was initially unclear at the time, given the rapidly spreading fire and lost flight controls, rather than land as...
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    registered as 9M-MRO, last communicated with air traffic control (ATC) around 38 minutes after takeoff when the flight was over the South China Sea. The aircraft...
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  • January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle) and a United States Army...
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    US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States...
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    Flight 143 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, midway through the flight....
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    hours of flying experience, of which 43 were in a 777 over nine flights operating the controls under the supervision of the instructor captain in the right...
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    JetBlue Flight 292 was a scheduled flight from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. On...
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    Swiftair Flight 5960 (operating as European Air Transport Leipzig Flight 18D) was an international cargo flight that crashed early in the morning on 25...
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    damage to the nacelle, wing, fuel system, landing gear, flight controls, and engine controls, and a fire in a fuel tank that self-extinguished. The subsequent...
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    5, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2007 – via Folha De S.Paulo. "A320 Flight Controls Manual" (PDF). Airbus. Archived from the original (PDF) on September...
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    Ababa Bole Impact site     Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa...
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    runway overrun was unavoidable at the 707's speed. The disabled DC-9, a Delta Air Lines flight which had reported that it had cleared the runway when...
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  • Microsoft Flight Simulator began as a set of articles on computer graphics, written by Bruce Artwick throughout 1976, about flight simulation using 3-D...
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    controls. West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, British European Airways Flight 548, Yemenia Flight 626, Colgan Air Flight 3407, United Airlines Flight 2885...
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    Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (category Flight control systems)
    European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) evaluated flight test results with MCAS disabled, and suggested that the MAX might not have needed MCAS to...
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    January 3 (in flight), and January 4 (after landing). This indicates that the primary automatic cabin pressurization controller was disabled by a fault condition...
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    Tecnam P2002 Sierra (category Articles with short description)
    conventional flight controls, using pushrods and cables that connect with the ailerons, all-moving horizontal stabiliser and rudder. These controls include...
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