Helios Structural Failure
|
June 27
NASA's solar powered research aircraft - the Helios - crashed shortly after take-off from a military base in Hawaii
|
Designed to stay aloft for several months utilising the sun's solar energy to drive it's 14 electric motor-propeller combination it appears that there was a structural failure with the wing "delaminating"
|
"The remote-piloted vehicle tumbled in pieces into the ocean below"
|
Media Source ABC
|
|
|
|
June 24
Media reports have a pilot suspended last month after the passenger jet he was flying ended up only
200 metres above the Bruce Highway near Mackay airport in north Queensland
|
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says the Impulse Airlines 717 jet was carrying 90 passengers
|
Comment
|
It's not the first time a heavy has made an approach to a road alongside the airport!
|
Media Source ABC
|
|
|
|