An A for airmanship

Edited by James E. Swickard February 01, 2004
An A for airmanship. On Jan. 5, Austrian Airlines Capt. Jan Michael Kurka successfully landed his Fokker 70 in a frozen field short of Runway 26 in Munich after a sudden simultaneous thrust loss on both engines left him with roughly 30 percent of normal thrust. In the subsequent emergency landing...

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