Rise of the Black Phoenix: Planes - Fire & No Rescue

Precursor

Flight Path:

March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Malaysia Airlines loses contact with a Boeing 777-200ER passenger plane carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China. (BBC)

March 12, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: China requests activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters meaning international space agencies join an "unprecedented" search for the Malaysian airliner which disappeared over an ocean Saturday. (Al Jazeera)

March 15, 2014, The Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak states that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was deliberately steered off course for reasons unknown and then flew for almost seven hours more. (AsiaOne)

April 8, 2014,

April 21, 2014, A Boeing 737 operated by Malaysian Airlines carrying 166 people makes an emergency landing after a tire on the main landing gear blew out. (ABC News)

 April 28, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The search area for the missing aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean is expanded with any debris likely to be found on the ocean floor with the minimum time anticipated for the search eight months. (TV New Zealand)

April 24, 2014, Series Premiere of Black Box

 May 29, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The Australian Transport Safety Bureau reports that they have finished searching an area where pings were heard in April and have discounted it as the final resting place for the plane. (Reuters)

Now

July 18, 2014, Release of Planes Fire and Rescue

When Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he joins a forest fire and rescue unit to be trained as a firefighter.

Mayalasian Airline MH17

Flight Path:

July 17, 2014, 2014 insurgency in Donbass: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 carrying 298 people from multiple countries is shot down near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. (BBC)

[Flight 17 goes down on the 17th. Plane was also first flown on July 17, 1997, 17 years before its death.]

-Ukraine accuses a Russian Air Force jet of shooting down a Ukrainian warplane over its territory. (Sky News Australia)

July 18, 2014, 2014 insurgency in Donbass: US President Barack Obama says the United States has "increasing confidence" that the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from Russian separatists in Ukraine - and that Russia bears responsibility for the crisis. (New York Times)

July 20, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: Separatist rebels take all the 196 bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to an undisclosed location. (AP)

July 21, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: Fighting restarts near Donetsk as international investigators arrive to examine the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (Reuters)

July 22, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17: Forensic experts in Kharkiv, Ukraine begin identifying the victims of the crash, with only 200 bodies delivered out of the 282 pro-Russian separatists claim to have sent. (BBC)

July 23, 2014, 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatist commander Alexander Khodakovsky of the Vostok Battalion confirmes that the rebels did possess the BUK missile system originating from Russia, and it could have been sent back to Russia subsequently to remove proof of its presence. (Reuters)

-Two Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 military fighter jets are shot down by pro-Russian separatists in Savur Mogila. (AP via Chron News)

 

-The bodies of crash victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are returned from Eastern Ukraine to the Netherlands together with flight recorders from the flight. (Business World Online)

 Transasia Airlines Flight Ge222

Flight Path:

July 23, 2014, TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 crashes into residential buildings in an emergency landing in Taiwan's Penghu Islands, with as many as 45 dead and 9 injured. (USA Today)

Hawker Beechcraft Bonanza

July 23, 2014,

 

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Air Algerie Flight 5017 

Flight Path:

July 24, 2014, Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers with 116 people on board.

-The wreckage is later found in Mali. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)

July 24, 2014, Season 1 Finale of Black Box