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DHL 737 crashes short of Vilnius runway

Fear of Landing

The flight departed normally from Leipzig Halle Airport at 02:08 UTC (03:08 local), operating as flight QY5690/BCS18D. At 03:28 UTC, ninety minutes into the flight and on final approach to Vilnius, the aircraft crashed near Liepkalnis Hill. Vilnius International Airport serves the capital of Lithuania, located just 5.9

Runway 104
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Dreamliner Crash in Ahmedabad: Air India flight 171

Fear of Landing

As per ATC, the aircraft departed from Ahmedabad at 1339 IST (0809 UTC) from Runway 23. Today, the Flight Data Recorder was recovered, which, assuming it is readable, will give us the key metrics of the take off and the descent. It gave a MAYDAY call to ATC, but thereafter no response was given by the aircraft to the calls made by ATC.

Runway 121