#aviation-safety

#aviation-safety

Since the pandemic, incidents with unruly passengers on airlines have escalated. There were almost 6,000 reports in 2021, nearly five-times as many as a year earlier, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration. Over the next three years, the number of incidents remained roughly twice the amount reported pre-pandemic. Up to September 28, there have been 1,205 reports this year. That's already more than in 2020, although it's an encouraging sign that the numbers are falling.

The pilot of a Boeing 737 headed for Los Angeles had a scary experience last week when the jet's windscreen cracked mid-flight, forcing an early landing. United Airlines confirmed in a statement to The Times that United Flight 1093 from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport landed safely in Salt Lake City on Thursday after the windshield was damaged in the air.

A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to divert to Salt Lake City last week after the aircraft's window cracked midair, officials said. Flight 1093, a Boeing 737 Max 8, was about 180 nautical miles southeast of Salt Lake City on Thursday, Oct. 16 when the crew decided to divert due to a crack in one layer of the plane's multilayer windshield, according to The Aviation Herald, a website that publishes reports about commercial aviation accidents and incidents.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it will allow Boeing to produce more 737 Max airplanes by increasing the monthly limit that it imposed after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines jet that the company built. Boeing can now produce 42 Max jets per month, up from 38, after safety inspectors conducted extensive reviews of the aerospace company's manufacturing lines to ensure an increase in production can be done safely, the FAA said.

A United Airlines plane heading for its gate clipped the tail of another United aircraft at Chicago's O'Hare airport, authorities said. No one was hurt in Friday's incident, and the 113 passengers on flight 2652 from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, were able to leave the plane normally after a delay, United officials said in a statement.

An investigation is under way after a Ryanair flight battling with high wind speeds during storm Amy last week landed at Manchester airport with just six minutes of fuel left in its tanks. The pilots had been taking passengers from Pisa in Italy to Prestwick in Scotland on Friday evening, but wind speeds of up to 100mph meant they were unable to land. After three failed attempts to touch down, the pilots of Ryanair flight FR3418 issued a mayday emergency

Instead of soaring through the air like a magnificent crane, Amazon's delivery drones ended up smashing into one. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant temporarily suspended drone deliveries in the West Valley area near Phoenix, Arizona after two of its MK30 drones collided with a construction crane just miles away from an Amazon warehouse. It's yet another example of the company's struggles to achieve Jeff Bezos' vision of delivering packages right to customers' doorsteps with autonomous robots.

A collision occurred Wednesday night between two Delta Air Lines planes on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York. In a statement, Delta Air Lines said that a "low-speed collision" occurred between Endeavor Air Flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Endeavor Flight 5155, which was scheduled to depart for Roanoke, Virginia. Endeavor is a Delta subsidiary. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in its own statement that the crash occurred just before 10 p.m. Eastern Time.

On Tuesday, unless Congress acts, America will lose critical counter-drone protections, making it easier for adversaries and criminals to exploit our skies. Absent congressional action, the federal government's ability to mitigate drone threats will be called into legal question, as key authorities lapse. Should this occur, it will put our nation's critical infrastructure and American lives at risk by creating an unnecessary gap in the fabric of our nation's security.

Emerson was subdued by the flight crew after trying to cut the engines of a Horizon Air flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco on 22 October 2023, while he was riding in an extra seat in the cockpit. The plane was diverted to Portland, where it landed safely with more than 80 people on board. Emerson told police he was despondent over a friend's recent death, had taken psychedelic mushrooms about two days earlier, and hadn't slept in more than 40 hours.

'Safety is always our top priority. Our Pilots followed procedures and Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions while en route to San Juan (SJU).'

In recent months, Africa's skies have been under intense scrutiny as a series of fatal crashes have raised questions over pilot training, regulatory enforcement, maintenance standards, weather preparedness and other key issues pertaining to the safety of continent's aviation industry.

The Airbus A380 has 16 emergency doors, strategically located to allow passengers to evacuate swiftly, irrespective of their seating position on the aircraft.

An unruly passenger on Breeze Airways flight 704 disrupted a cross-country journey, yelling racial slurs and waving a skateboard, leading to a diversion.

While pilots rarely get sick mid-flight, incidents do occur. Most pilots assess their fitness prior to flying using the FAA's IMSAFE Checklist to ensure they are healthy.

At airports, grass is the star, because there can be no bushes or trees, which attract birds, and no flowers either, because they attract too many bugs.

Virgin Australia is considering rule changes regarding lithium batteries after a fire on a flight was allegedly caused by a passenger's power bank.

A Turkish Airlines flight bound for San Francisco was diverted after a passenger died over Greenland, landing at Chicago O'Hare Airport.

Every day, birds and airplanes collide, accounting for approximately 19,000 incidents across nearly 800 US airports in 2023, costing airlines an estimated $461 million.

The five-year flight ban on Pakistani airlines was lifted by Britain after significant improvements in aviation safety standards were recognized.