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Inside FlyDubai’s 4-hour ordeal: A cockpit fight, steep descents and alternating distress codes

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Inside FlyDubai's 4-hour ordeal: A cockpit fight, steep descents and alternating distress codes

This is a timeline of the four hours FlyDubai flight 1073 was in the air as a wounded captain fought off his copilot, the aircraft went into a dive and when passengers saved the day by regaining control and landing safely. Inside FlyDubai’s 4-hour ordeal: A cockpit fight, steep descents and alternating distress codes For … Read more

In 1873, Andrew Hallidie tested San Francisco’s first cable car on Clay Street, creating a new way to travel up the city’s steep hills without horses

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In 1873, Andrew Hallidie tested San Francisco’s first cable car on Clay Street, creating a new way to travel up the city’s steep hills without horses

PC: Cable Car Heritage Museum In August 1873, San Francisco tested a new cable railway system designed to operate on streets where horses struggled with steep grades. Andrew Smith Hallidie tested the first cable car on Clay Street on 2 August, using an endless wire rope placed in a tube below the surface of the … Read more