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We've all been there. It's late at night on a 'smart' motorway with little traffic. No visible sign of any problem. But approaching the next overhead gantry, you notice the speed limit is showing 40 mph.
21st April 2021 11:50 am 21st April 2021 11:50 am Highways England has announced plans to install radar technology on all existing stretches of All Lane Running motorway by the end of September 2022. Image by xenostral from Pixabay The technology aims to improve motorway safety by allowing for quick detection of stopped or broken-down vehicles, and will be installed on every new All Lane Running (ALR) motorway as well as being fitted to existing motorways six months earlier than originally planned. Further safety measures include the installation of special cameras 10 months earlier than ...
>> clayton sandell reporting for us tonight. we head overseas now to the deadly emergency landing on a siberian runway. a pilot and flight mechanic killed when the passenger plane skidded onto the grass, bursting into flames. russian state news reporting nearly two dozen people were injured. a passenger recording the frightening moments from inside the cabin. abc's david kerley covers aviation for us. >> reporter: the russian airline says tonight, this was an emergency landing going bad, all caught on cell phone. the plane running off the runway, onto the grass. not slowing down. its tires s...
Remotely flown. >> i have this one. someone just sent this. jim says, we discussed this a little bit. a plane running out of fuel falls backwards tail first. when it hits tail first, what is the outcome? >> i think there is a lot of issues in that question. if an airplane is on auto pilot and it runs out of gas, the engines will stop powering the aircraft, it will slow and the auto pilot will try to maintain the altitude and then the airplane is going to come close to a stall and the auto pilot would be kicked off. if it lands tail first there may be a break up and maybe a potentially violent ...
A plane hitting the water. >> it was so disturbing that we both agreed we would never show that on the air. >> reporter: there were repeated demonstrations of a plane running out of fuel. >> it will fall tail first into the ocean. >> it begins to plummet. the ocean is here and i think we will stop it right there. the rest of it, you get. >> reporter: what do they do between live shots? some days they have hours of time on their hands. >> i've always wanted to learn to fly. >> reporter: mitchell has been teaching martin. the machine can simulate landings at 24,000 airports so far. martin has la...