Showing posts with label aviation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aviation. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

UPDATE: 152 Killed in Pakistan Plane Crash

Video from the scene of today's Airblue plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, taken by Muhammad Saqib Sultan, a computer engineer who works in the Margalla Hills, the site of the accident.

He writes in an email:

"[This] morning when I reach in my office and turn on the t.v. there is a news of plane crash. So I just lift up to roof and found heavy smoke with fire in front of me on the hills. I just start my bike and pick my [colleague] and reach at margilla road below hills, the last limit. Then from there we start follows the rescue teams, climbing on the hills. There was heavy rain and the path from ground to crash site in very dangerous and far away. About 1 and half hour. At last we reach at the site of crash. And that's the way I was able to make the videos and images."

The Airbus A321 had reportedly left Karachi en route to the capital when it came down in heavy rain.



User name: sakijanexxx
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 3
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This video was posted by 2048adil.


User name: 2048adil
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Date uploaded: July 28
Event date: July 28
Views: 30
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Solar-Powered Plane Makes Nighttime Journey

An experimental solar-powered plane completed a 26-hour flight in Switzerland on Thursday, and operated in the dark. The plane, called Solar Impulse, reached an altitude of more than 28,000 feet, making it the highest- and longest-flying solar flight ever, according to this BBC report.



User name: SolarImpulseChannel
Location: Payerne, Switzerland
Date uploaded: July 6
Event date: July 6
Views: 8,056
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