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Aviation

Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.

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yaw

Aviation; Aircraft

Of the three axes in flight, this specifies the side-to-side movement of an aircraft on its vertical axis, as in skewing.

yoke

Aviation; Aircraft

The control wheel of an aircraft, akin to a automobile steering wheel.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Aviation; Aircraft

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, is a Boeing777-200ER en route from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport it dropped off radars and radio ...

Asiana Airlines Flight 214

Aviation; Aircraft

The first Boeing777 crash was Asiana Airlines Flight 214 on July 6, 2013. The Aircraft was flying from Korea to San Francisco, USA when it came in for landing and landed short of ...

Dana Air Flight 992

Aviation; Aircraft

Dana Air Flight 992 was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 carrying 146 passengers and 7 crew members which crashed in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria while descending for landing at Murtala ...

Bhoja Air Flight 213

Aviation; Aircraft

Bhoja Air Flight 213 was a Boeing 737, which crashed near Chaklala airbase, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The crash was attribute to bad weather, killing all 127 people on board.

Boeing 777 Freighter

Aviation; Aircraft

The Boeing 777-Freighter is an all-cargo version of the twin-engine jet modeled after the 777-200LR Worldliner (Longer Range) passenger airplane. It shares many of the 200LR ...