Posts tagged ‘cockpit’

Tupolev

May 5th, 2011

Polish authorities released the cockpit transcript hoping to quiet persistent speculation about the April crash that killed much of Poland’s government. Tupolev During World War II, the twin-engined, all-metal Tu-2 was one of the best front-line bombers of the Soviets. Several variants of it were produced in large numbers from 1942. During the war it [...]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday. Read the whole article at Reuters