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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Hero United Airlines pilots land stricken plane 'blind' after instruments fail and cockpit fills with smoke
Posted by ai at 4:00 AM
Daily Mail reports the pilots of a United Airlines flight were forced to land 'blind' when smoke began to fill the cockpit after a massive instrument failure.
Flight 497, with 109 passengers on board, ran into difficulties at 7am yesterday, only 20 minutes after taking off from New Orleans' Louis Armstrong airport.
Dramatic voice recordings of the pilot talking to air traffic controllers show how the ground crew had to guide the aircraft in via voice instruction as the pilots battled to steer the crippled plane home.
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