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Drunken Captain. Air Crash DC 8 Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight-1045
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Commander overboard

June 10, 1990. A British Airways BAC 1-11-528FL was on scheduled flight BA5390 between Birmingham and Malaga, but 13 minutes after take-off a poorly installed windscreen broke, causing the aircraft commander to be thrown halfway out of the cockpit.

Flight BA5390 departed Birmingham Airport at 07:20 UTC.

By 07:33 UTC the airliner had climbed to an altitude of 5,273 meters and was flying over Didcot, Oxfordshire. The pilots unbuckled their shoulder belts and the captain also loosened his lap belt. Passengers began to be served food. Suddenly there was a loud pop and decompression occurred. The left windshield of the cockpit, on the wingman's side, detached from the front of the fuselage; the commander was yanked out of his seat by the flow of air coming out of the plane and flew out through the windshield opening out of the cockpit. His back was pressed against the fuselage on the outside of the airplane and his legs were caught between the steering wheel and the control panel. The cockpit door was torn off and its debris fell on the radio and navigation panel. Flight Attendant Nigel Ogden, who was in the cockpit at the time, grabbed the commander's waist with both hands. The other flight attendants reassured the passengers and asked them to fasten their seat belts.

The co-pilot began an emergency descent and engaged the autopilot, which had been disabled before because the pilot had hit the steering wheel. He then transmitted a distress call, but because of the wind he could not hear the ATC's response.
Meanwhile, flight attendant Ogden began to suffer from frostbite and exhaustion. Two other flight attendants came to his aid. Despite their efforts, the commander slipped a few more centimeters (his face was visible through the side window), his eyes open and unblinking despite the strong wind. The co-pilot and flight attendants thought the commander was dead, but decided to continue to hold the body because they feared that if it was released, it might hit engine #1 (left) and render it inoperable.

After the co-pilot began to hear answers from the London ATC center, he asked to be allowed to land at London Gatwick Airport, as the pilot was very familiar with that airport. However, he was offered Southampton Airport because it was much closer to London. At 07:55 UTC flight BA5390 landed safely at Southampton Airport on runway 2. There was no emergency evacuation, passengers left the plane through the normal exits. The Lancaster crew member was lifted into the cockpit and evacuated from the plane on a stretcher.

Lancaster was rushed to Southampton General Hospital. He was diagnosed with frostbite, bruises, and fractures to his right arm, a finger on his left hand and his right wrist. Flight attendant Nigel Ogden suffered a dislocated shoulder, frostbite to the face and left eye. All of the other 85 people -- 81 passengers and four crew members -- were uninjured.
Five months after the accident, Lancaster got back behind the wheel of the plane. At the age of 55, according to British Airways rules, he was retired, but continued to fly for EasyJet.

Investigators determined that a new windshield had been installed on the plane 27 hours before departure and that this emergency flight was the first since the replacement. The investigation found that 84 of the 90 bolts used to secure the glass were smaller in diameter than required. The difference in air pressure inside the cockpit and outside the cockpit during the flight was what eventually pushed the windshield out.
The other bolts were the correct diameter, but shorter by 2.5 millimeters than required. It turned out that these bolts had secured the previous windshield, which had been in use for four years.
In addition, AAIB concluded that the cause of the accident was the installation of the wrong bolts by the shift supervisor at British Airways' maintenance base at Birmingham Airport. This was due to the fact that instead of checking the documentation, he simply took what he thought were the same bolts from the warehouse as the ones used to secure the previous glass and was one size wrong. AAIB also noted several other violations of airline rules that prevented the airline from spotting the error in time, and insufficient oversight of the technicians by the airline.

Co-pilot Alastair Atchison and flight attendants Nigel Ogden and Susan Gibbins were awarded the British Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air.

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Did you know:
Bruno Mussolini, the second son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, died when the plane he was piloting crashed into a house.

On August 7, 1941, 23-year-old Bruno Mussolini was flying in a "secret" Piaggio P.108 bomber near San Giusto Airport in Pisa. Bruno Mussolini was to make a training flight and was flying the plane with his co-pilot De Genaro.
The Piaggio bomber took off from the runway in Pisa with the flaps open, broke away from the ground and the crew began to retract the landing gear.
Suddenly the pressure in the hydraulic system decreased and the flaps retracted. The pilots, having decided to turn around and land, tried to put the landing gear back on release. Operating the retractor handle and watching the hydraulic pressure gauge, the pilots were distracted from control and lost speed.
The airplane was flying too low. Trying to correct the position, the commander over-revved the engines, they stalled, and the plane crashed to the ground and hit a house. The car did not catch fire, but nevertheless it completely collapsed on impact. The cockpit section separated from the rest of the plane, and Bruno Mussolini died from his injuries.

Of the eight crew members, three died - Bruno was among them. Benito Mussolini rushed to Santa Chiara Hospital to be near his dead son. Bruno's death prompted his father to write a pamphlet entitled I Talk to Bruno (Parlo con Bruno). The pamphlet reveals the close relationship between son and father and contains thoughts on Fascism, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and family piety.

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Exactly 240 years ago the first balloon was launched by the Montgolfier brothers

The Montgolfier brothers made their first public experience on June 5, 1783 with a balloon made of canvas pasted with wallpaper from a factory owned by their family. The balloon was about 12 meters across, took off in 10 minutes with a load of about 200 kg to a considerable height and came down at a distance of 1.2 km from the place of ascent.

Modern balloons used for demonstration and sports flights, as well as the balloon of Montgolfier brothers, are mainly filled with heated air. A propane burner is used to heat the air and since thin, hot air is lighter than cold air, the balloon takes off. The balloon is lowered by the pilot by lowering it through a special valve in the shell with some of the hot air.
It is interesting that the first hot air balloon with a burner on liquid fuel was invented by Ignatiy Martynovich and Nepomuk Hermann from Lviv. In 1784, a balloon with no passengers and an automatic liquid fuel burner flew over the Belsky Garden in Lviv.

The main disadvantage of the balloon is the lack of direct control of the direction of the balloon along the earth's surface - the balloon flies in the direction in which the air currents will direct it. However, it is possible to change the direction by changing the height of the balloon flight, because at different heights the winds may blow in different directions.

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🇺🇸In the U.S., a private jet crashed in unclear circumstances while flying over restricted areas of Washington, D.C. 🛩

A small Cessna 560 Citation jet (N611VG) crashed in Virginia after losing radio contact for more than an hour.

The plane flew over the U.S. capital (Washington, D.C.), through no-fly zones, relatively close to the Capitol and the White House.

Two U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters were sent to intercept the intruder, which broke the sound barrier over Washington, D.C.

The FBI and FAA have already said they have launched an investigation. The exact number of passengers on the crashed plane is not yet known.

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Tu-144 crash near Paris
On June 3, 1973 at the 30th International Air Show Le Bourget (near Paris, France).
A Soviet Tu-144C airliner of Aeroflot company (owned by Tupolev Design Bureau) was performing a demonstration flight when it suddenly went into a dive in front of 250-350,000 spectators and after a few seconds crashed into the air on the residential areas below it in Goussainville town, located 6 kilometers from Le Bourget airport.
The crash killed 14 people-all six crew members of the Tu-144 and eight on the ground.

This is the first ever crash of a supersonic airliner.
The investigation materials were classified, and the official conclusions of the investigation commission seemed unsatisfactory to many, which gave rise to a number of hypotheses about the true causes of the crash.

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