Plane&#39;s tail struck Halifax runway twice: investigators
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HALIFAX - The tail of a cargo-laden 747 jet that crashed early Thursday struck the runway twice before snapping off as the plane tried to take off from Halifax airport, investigators said Friday.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The tail section of a Boeing 747 snapped off seconds before the loaded cargo jet crashed into woods at the end of a runway at Halifax International Airport early Thursday, killing all seven crew members.
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The National Transportation Safety Board said the copilot of Flight 587 moved the rudder back and forth several times, putting so much stress on the tail that it snapped off.
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Investigators probing the deadly crash of a Boeing 747 cargo jet at Halifax International Airport are refusing to speculate on what may have caused the plane&#39;s tail to scrape the runway before breaking off.
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The co-pilot of an American Airlines  jet that crashed nearly three years ago in New York killing 265  people made aggressive rudder movements that snapped the tail  fin from the Airbus plane, investigators concluded on Tuesday.
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Russian investigators found explosive residue on the wreckage of the second of two airliners that crashed minutes apart, a security spokesman said Saturday, adding to evidence that terrorists breached security at one of the country's most up-to-date airports.
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Moscow - Officials said Saturday they had found traces of an explosive in the wreckage of the second of two Russian airliners that crashed just minutes apart last Tuesday.
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Four Britons, a German and two Zimbabweans were killed when a cargo plane crashed during takeoff from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadian police have reported.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The fiery airplane crash that killed seven crew in Halifax on Thursday is the latest of a worrying series of accidents involving cargo jets, says an aviation safety expert.
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A corporate jet trying to take off  from a New Jersey airport near Manhattan on Wednesday slid off  the runway, skidded through snow and hit two vehicles on a busy  commuter highway before crashing into a warehouse, authorities  said.
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RUSSIAN investigators have found explosive residue on the wreckage of the second of two airliners which crashed at almost the same time, a security spokesman said yesterday.
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Investigators in Russia are looking into what caused two passenger planes to crash at almost the same time while flying from Moscow to cities in the southern part of the country.
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Investigators have discovered traces of the explosive Hexogen in the wreckage of the second plane downed this week in Russia, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
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Investigators in the Comair jet crash that killed 49 people are looking into whether changes made to a taxiway during a repaving project a week ago confused the pilot and caused him to turn onto the wrong runway.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Two turns of a screw caused the spectacular crash of a Sea King helicopter onto the deck of a Canadian destroyer at sea last year.
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A plane crash at a British airport two years ago that killed five Americans was caused by the crew's failure to de-ice the wings before takeoff, an official accident report said Friday.
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MOOSE JAW, Sask. (CP) - Two Snowbird pilots that crashed last week were practising a complex looping manoeuvre when something went wrong, officials said Sunday.