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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
PT The Canadian Press Search crews are scouring the area between Anchorage, Alaska, and Whitehorse for a missing plane with two people on board...David Burneau of the Victoria Search and Rescue said the male pilot and female passenger were in a...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Passengers unaware pilot had died Updated on 19 June 2009 Source PA News The passengers on Continental Airlines Flight 61 didn't know anything was wrong with their trans-Atlantic crossing until they landed and were met by fire engines, emergency...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
The two first officers onboard, who have extensive experience flying the Boeing 777, landed the plane Thursday with 247 passengers on board in Newark, according to broadcast images. The plane was met by emergency vehicles in response to what CNN said...
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News Source: China News
| 5 months ago
But in the cockpit, the 60-year-old captain had died of a suspected heart attack and two co-pilots took over the controls. The 247 passengers aboard did not learn what had happened until the flight from Brussels landed safely Thursday and was met by...
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News Source: The Mercury News
| 5 months ago
For the passengers of Continental Airlines Flight 61 from Brussels, the landing Thursday morning was nothing but routine at Newark's fog-covered, rain-drenched Liberty International Airport, after an exhausting if unremarkable eight-hour haul across...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
A pilot on a Continental Airlines flight from Brussels to Newark died in mid-flight yesterday, but its 247 passengers landed safely in New Jersey under the control of two co-pilots. The 60-year-old pilot of the Boeing 777, who had worked for...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The Boeing 777 flight, carrying 247 passengers, was guided down by two co-pilots at the New Jersey airport, its final destination which is one of three main airports serving New York City. "The captain of Continental Flight 61, which was en route...
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News Source: Newsday
| 5 months ago
An airline official told The Associated Press that the pilot, 61, had more than two decades of service with Continental and was based out of Newark. The spokeswoman said the pilot was believed to have died of natural causes as the plane, carrying 247...
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
Continental Flight 61, whose pilot died Thursday while flying from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, New Jersey, has landed safely, the Federal Aviation Administration and Continental Airlines said. The Boeing 777 landed at Newark International Airport...
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News Source: Belleville News-Democrat
| 5 months ago
The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight from Brussels to Newark died over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, but the jet landed safely with two co-pilots at the controls. Flight 61 touched down on-time just before noon at Newark Liberty International...