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Ameristar Charters Flight 9363 was a charter flight from Willow Run Airport to Washington Dulles Airport on March 8, 2017, which rejected takeoff and overran the runway.[1]

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  1. 76 relations: Aerial work platform, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Aircraft registration, Ameristar Jet Charter, Avianca, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Capital One Arena, Check pilot, Computational fluid dynamics, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Detroit Pistons, DTE Electric Company, Dulles International Airport, Dulles, Virginia, Eastern Time Zone, Elevator (aeronautics), Empennage, ESPN, Evacuation slide, Federal Aviation Administration, Flight Safety Foundation, GE Capital Aviation Services, German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation, Gust lock, Hangar, Hull loss, Huntington Beach, California, Illinois Fighting Illini, Indicated airspeed, Landing gear, Lift (force), Lincoln Airport (Nebraska), Lincoln, Nebraska, Long Beach Airport, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, Mechanical advantage, Michigan, Michigan Wolverines men's basketball, Mobile phone, Munich Airport, National Transportation Safety Board, Nautical mile, Parking brake, Pilot flying, Pilot in command, Rejected takeoff, Robert L. Sumwalt (U.S. government official), Rotation (aeronautics), Runway excursion, ... Expand index (26 more) »

  2. 2017 in Michigan
  3. Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-83
  4. Aviation accidents and incidents in 2017
  5. Aviation accidents and incidents in Michigan
  6. Aviation accidents and incidents involving sports teams
  7. March 2017 events in the United States

Aerial work platform

An aerial work platform (AWP), also known as an aerial device, elevating work platform (EWP), aerial lift, cherry picker, bucket truck or mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.

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Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is a Frederick, Maryland-based American non-profit political organization that advocates for general aviation.

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Aircraft registration

An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft.

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Ameristar Jet Charter

Ameristar Air Cargo, Inc. is an American passenger and cargo airline based in Dallas, Texas, USA.

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Avianca

Avianca S.A. (acronym in Spanish for Aerovias del Continente Americano S.A., "Airways of the American Continent", and stylized as avianca since October 2023), is the largest airline in Colombia.

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) is a division of the Boeing Company.

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Capital One Arena

Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Located in the Chinatown section of the larger Penn Quarter neighborhood, the arena sits atop the Gallery Place rapid transit station of the Washington Metro.

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Check pilot

A check pilot (or check airman) is an aircraft pilot who performs an oversight, safety, and qualification role for commercial pilots undergoing evaluation.

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Computational fluid dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows.

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Detroit Metropolitan Airport

Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is the primary international airport serving Detroit and its surrounding metropolitan area in Michigan, United States.

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Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit.

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DTE Electric Company

DTE Electric Company (formerly The Detroit Edison Company) was founded in 1886.

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Dulles International Airport

Washington Dulles International Airport is an international airport in Loudoun County and Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, United States, west of downtown Washington, D.C. The airport, which opened in 1962, is named after John Foster Dulles, an influential United States Secretary of State during the Cold War who briefly represented New York in the United States Senate.

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Dulles, Virginia

Dulles is an unincorporated area in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and is part of the Washington metropolitan area.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Elevator (aeronautics)

Elevators are flight control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's pitch, and therefore the angle of attack and the lift of the wing.

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Empennage

The empennage, also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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Evacuation slide

An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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Flight Safety Foundation

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety.

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GE Capital Aviation Services

GECAS (GE Capital Aviation Services) was an Irish–American commercial aviation financing and leasing company.

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German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation

The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation"." German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation.

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Gust lock

A gust lock on an aircraft is a mechanism that locks control surfaces and keeps open aircraft doors in place while the aircraft is parked on the ground and non-operational.

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Hangar

A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft.

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Hull loss

A hull loss is an aviation accident that damages the aircraft beyond economical repair, resulting in a total loss.

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Huntington Beach, California

Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, United States.

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Illinois Fighting Illini

The Illinois Fighting Illini are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Indicated airspeed

Indicated airspeed (IAS) is the airspeed of an aircraft as measured by its pitot-static system and displayed by the airspeed indicator (ASI).

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Landing gear

Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing.

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Lift (force)

When a fluid flows around an object, the fluid exerts a force on the object.

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Lincoln Airport (Nebraska)

Lincoln Airport (formerly Lincoln Municipal Airport) is a joint public/military airport northwest of downtown Lincoln, the state capital, in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.

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Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County.

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Long Beach Airport

Long Beach Airport is a public airport northeast of downtown Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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McDonnell Douglas DC-9

The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast, single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.

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McDonnell Douglas MD-80

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas.

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Mechanical advantage

Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Michigan Wolverines men's basketball

The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing the University of Michigan.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Munich Airport

Munich Airport Franz Josef Strauss (Flughafen München „Franz Josef Strauß“) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria.

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National Transportation Safety Board

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.

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Nautical mile

A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.

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Parking brake

In road vehicles, the parking brake, also known as a handbrake or emergency brake (e-brake), is a mechanism used to keep the vehicle securely motionless when parked.

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Pilot flying

In commercial aviation with a two-person flight crew, the pilot flying (PF) is the pilot operating the flight controls of the aircraft.

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Pilot in command

The pilot in command (PIC) of an aircraft is the person aboard an aircraft who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight.

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Rejected takeoff

In aviation, a rejected takeoff (RTO) or aborted takeoff is the situation in which the pilot decides to abort the takeoff of an airplane after initiating the takeoff roll but before the airplane leaves the ground.

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Robert L. Sumwalt (U.S. government official)

Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt III (born June 30, 1956) is an American academic, aviator, government official and writer.

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Rotation (aeronautics)

In aviation, rotation refers to the action of applying back pressure to a control device, such as a yoke, side-stick or centre stick, to lift the nose wheel off the ground during takeoff.

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Runway excursion

A runway excursion is a runway safety incident in which an aircraft makes an inappropriate exit from the runway.

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Runway safety area

A runway safety area (RSA) or runway end safety area (RESA, if at the end of the runway) is defined as "the surface surrounding the runway prepared or suitable for reducing the risk of damage to airplanes in the event of an undershoot, overshoot, or excursion from the runway." Past standards called for the RSA to extend only 60m (200 feet) from the ends of the runway.

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Servo tab

A servo tab is a small hinged device installed on an aircraft control surface to assist the movement of the control surfaces.

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Shock absorber

A shock absorber or damper is a mechanical or hydraulic device designed to absorb and damp shock impulses.

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Southeast Michigan

Southeast Michigan, also called southeastern Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's businesses and industries as well as slightly over half of the state's population, most of whom are concentrated in Metro Detroit.

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Spoiler (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a spoiler (sometimes called a lift spoiler or lift dumper) is a device which intentionally reduces the lift component of an airfoil in a controlled way.

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T-tail

A T-tail is an empennage configuration in which the tailplane of an aircraft is mounted to the top of the fin.

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The Aviation Herald

The Aviation Herald is an English-language website that publishes reports of accidents and incidents in commercial aviation.

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Thrust reversal

Thrust reversal, also called reverse thrust, is the temporary diversion of an aircraft engine's thrust for it to act against the forward travel of the aircraft, providing deceleration.

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Trailing edge

The trailing edge of an aerodynamic surface such as a wing is its rear edge, where the airflow separated by the leading edge meets.

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Turbulence

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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V speeds

In aviation, V-speeds are standard terms used to define airspeeds important or useful to the operation of all aircraft.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Walk-around

In aviation, an outside check or walk around is the air crew inspecting certain elements of an aircraft prior to boarding for security, safety, and operational reasons.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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WDIV-TV

WDIV-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with NBC.

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Willow Run Airport

Willow Run Airport is an airport in Van Buren Charter Township and Ypsilanti Charter Township, near Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, that serves freight, corporate, and general aviation.

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Windsock

A windsock (a wind cone or wind sleeve) is a conical textile tube that resembles a giant sock.

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WXYZ-TV

WXYZ-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with ABC.

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Yoke (aeronautics)

A yoke, alternatively known as a control wheel or a control column, is a device used for piloting some fixed-wing aircraft.

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Ypsilanti, Michigan

Ypsilanti, commonly shortened to Ypsi, is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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2016–17 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team

The 2016–17 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

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2016–17 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team

The 2016–17 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team represented the University of Oregon during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

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2017 Big Ten men's basketball tournament

The 2017 Big Ten men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Big Ten Conference held from March 8 through March 12, 2017 at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. It was the first Big Ten men's basketball tournament held outside the conference's traditional heartland in the Midwest.

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2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

The 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2016–17 season.

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2021 Houston MD-87 crash

On October 19, 2021, a corporate McDonnell Douglas MD-87, registered as N987AK, crashed and caught fire during take-off, from Houston Executive Airport.

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See also

2017 in Michigan

Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-83

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2017

Aviation accidents and incidents in Michigan

Aviation accidents and incidents involving sports teams

March 2017 events in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameristar_Charters_Flight_9363

Also known as Ameristar Jet Charter Flight 9363, Flight 9363.

, Runway safety area, Servo tab, Shock absorber, Southeast Michigan, Spoiler (aeronautics), T-tail, The Aviation Herald, Thrust reversal, Trailing edge, Turbulence, Unmanned aerial vehicle, V speeds, Virginia, Walk-around, Washington, D.C., WDIV-TV, Willow Run Airport, Windsock, WXYZ-TV, Yoke (aeronautics), Ypsilanti, Michigan, 2016–17 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, 2016–17 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team, 2017 Big Ten men's basketball tournament, 2017 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2021 Houston MD-87 crash.