The California Pilots Association is a state wide, volunteer,
non-profit public benefit corporation. Our main mission of is
general aviation airport advocacy, which is achieved by working
together with our membership to promote and preserve California's
general aviation airports through education.
The failure of a jet engine caused by the extinction of the
flame in the combustion chamber. It can be caused by a number of
factors, including fuel exhaustion; compressor stall; insufficient
oxygen supply; foreign object damage (such as birds, hail or even
volcanic ash); severe inclement weather; mechanical failure; and
other factors.
"They ran into each other. Nothing has the right of way
up there. We don't have an air traffic controller in space. There
is no universal way of knowing what's coming in your
direction."
Source: Nicholas Johnson, the chief scientist
for orbital debris at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. On
Tuesday, a defunct Russian military satellite collided with an
active Iridium communication satellite in orbit, about 490 miles
above northern Siberia... in what is believed to be the first
documented case of an accidental satellite collision.
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