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Landing on One of Two Engines

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: June 4, 2009
Wednesday afternoon I heard scattered radio traffic come across the scanner in the newsroom. All I knew was that several fire engines and medics were being dispatched to the airport. I waited just long enough to hear that a twin-engine aircraft was flying with only one functioning engine and was going to attempt to land [...]
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Big Small Town, Small Big News

By Matt Zimmerman | Published: October 28, 2008
Let me begin by explaining that Walla Walla only has one commercial air carrier (Horizon Air), flying to only one destination (Seattle), although they do fly back and forth three-times a day. Now that that’s out of the way you’ll understand why when Horizon replaces their older Q200 turbo-prop aircraft with a larger Q400 turbo-prop that [...]
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