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Showing posts with label aviation safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aviation safety. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2016

United Makes Peace by Reinstating Fired Crew, Qatar Not So Much

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Two stories with big consequences for the participants and lessons for the rest of us were in the news this week. After years of fighting ...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Quest For More From CNN From MH-370

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Full disclosure: The Crash Detectives , my own book on the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370, will be published by Penguin in ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Aviation Year in Review Has a Star Wars Sci-Fi Feel

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Harrison Ford and cast Disney handout photo  Star Wars dominated the end-of-the-year entertainment news. Harrison Ford, the ageless supe...
Friday, December 18, 2015

Nice Landing or Scary Takeoff A350 Enters Service With Both

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A350 arrives in Brazil photo courtesy TAM What a difference a week makes. Early this morning, TAM Airlines happily welcomed its first A...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Science Shows Metrojet Crash Triggered by a Bomb

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The blast that took down a Russian Airbus A321 over the Sinai last month, had to be triggered by a bomb, an experienced explosives expert ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Prudence and Probable Cause Not the Same Thing in Metrojet Crash

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UK Prime Minister Cameron Government photo All over the news today is the story of the UK and Irish governments canceling flights out of...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Eyebrows Ascend as Airline Execs Demonstrate Their Plonker-ism

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It never ceases to amaze me how often senior airline bosses will prattle on regardless of what they know about the subject. The latest you...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Eye Opening Experience of Passing out at 25K

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Instructor Ron Diedrichs with EVA cadets You got to hand it to the folks at Taiwan’s EVA Airlines they’re taking the hypoxia threat ser...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Mud Stud or Desk Detective, Two Seminars for Air Crash Analysis

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Platinum Jet crash at Teterboro in 2005 Who is an air crash investigator? On those television documentaries, there’s always some govern...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Aviation Reveals the Mystery of Human Resiliency

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One month before Orville Wright's birthday (which we remember today on National Aviation day) he was injured in a plane crash while d...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Wing Flap Should Elevate MH 370 Investigation

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The section of wing found on Reunion Island in the South Indian Ocean last week came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, or at ...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

High but Not So Mighty American Dreamliner Damage Photos

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Updated Thursday August 6th with news from inspection in Dallas Radome damage Glass half full: This American Airlines Boeing 787 Dr...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Egg Heads Unlikely Malaysia 370 Heroes in the Bamboozle Era

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In the past I’ve referred to them as the kids who couldn’t get a date for the prom. Now, I bet the engineers at the British satellite com...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Delta 747 Replacement Not Ready for Prime Time

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N671US in Shannon days ago. Photo courtesy Kevin Corry This just in: The Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 N664US which was heavily damaged by ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Can This Airliner be Saved?

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Photo by Brian Walker Armchair airline pilots may be asking why the crew of Delta Air Lines Flight 159 from Detroit to Seoul opted t...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Lost and Confounded Until Hiker Finds Missing Plane

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What forces of fate allow thousands of people to cross the same terrain without seeing the crashed airplane that John Weisheit discovered ...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Drive in the Country or Tumble Through the Sky; Acrobatic Pilot Rob Holland's Flying Lessons

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I made the one hour drive on the beautiful back roads of New England, rounding the curves and ascending the hills. Distracted by spring i...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Suicidal/Homicidal Pilots and the Challenge of Trying to Fix Unknown Unknowns

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Andreas Lubitz from Facebook The chilling news that pilot Andreas Lubitz had already tried the controlled descent into terrain of an air...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Federal Investigators Find Oversight Lacking in Air Ambulances

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Air Methods helicopter prior to crash that killed 4 in 2011 The attention of the flying public may be riveted to events like Malaysia 37...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Germanwings "No Right to Rule Out Other Hypotheses"

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BEA's chief Remi Jouty As if awaking from a stunned stupor, (incapacitation with breathing perhaps?) the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d...