The phrase "accident flight" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a flight that was caused by an accident or a flight that is a result of an emergency situation, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "Due to the accident flight, many passengers were rerouted to different airlines."
Alternatives: "emergency flight" or "diverted flight".
The crew on the accident flight have told investigators that they never heard an alarm from the radar altimeter, which is used to measure height above the ground in low-level flights.
The pilot who flew the plane in the accident flight and his navigator filed reports describing a problem with the radar, and turned them in some days after the Feb. 3 accident, according to testimony today.
On the outbound flight from Germany, the report says the FDR recordings show that "several altitude selections towards 100ft were recorded during descent on the flight that preceded the accident flight, while the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit".
On Sunday, Continental operated a special flight to Houston for the passengers on the accident flight, Flight 1404, who still wanted to go, and flew some relatives of passengers to Denver.
"During the descent of the accident flight, the Marseille control centre called the flight crew on 11 occasions on three different frequencies, without any answer being transmitted," states the report.
Still, after comparing computer records from the plane that crashed against records from thousands of other 777 flights, investigators found that the accident flight had unusually low fuel flow at some points in the flight and high fuel flow at others.
Also in the following two major Widerøe accidents, Flight 893 in 1990 and Flight 744 in 1993, the investigation uncovered operational shortcomings.
The Soviets and the Americans had both recently shot down civilian airliners by accident (KAL Flight 007, in 1983, and Iran Air Flight 655, in 1988, respectively), and so the risks to aviation posed by irresponsible proxies seemed very real.
She was about to start explaining about the funeral, the accident, the flight down from Smithers, but the conversation was taken away from her. "But I'm not here officially, don't worry," the doctor said.
Even more than the plane crash in "Cast Away" (about a survivor, played by Tom Hanks, marooned on an unpopulated island), the accident in "Flight" is freakishly real; it's one of those big-screen nightmares that will inspire fear-of-flying moviegoers to run home and Google car rental deals and Greyhound schedules.
In that accident, a flight attendant died.
