#aviation-safety

#aviation-safety

I do have limbs on the runway, I believe the aircraft struck an individual, an airport staff member could be heard saying. Okay, so we have a plane into an individual, that's where we're at? another responded. Yeah, I've got what appears to be a deceased person on the runway, the first staff member said.

And after this set of May election results is fully in, we can already be sure we're going to get an extremely anguished debate about whether we should get another new pilot. These days, many across the whole political spectrum feel excessively tribal about stanning for their preferred pilot, but both within Labour and without, I must say I don't love any of the choices on offer. Several of them are having some kind of medical emergency of their own.

The Ryanair boss said airports should be banned from serving alcohol before early flights to reduce the number of disruptive passengers on planes, telling the Times on Wednesday that Ryanair was having to divert an average of nearly one flight a day because of bad behaviour onboard, up from one a week 10 years ago.

If something is wrong, gestures are certainly used internally, for security reasons, to communicate with the flight deck and deescalate the situation. In the event of a medical emergency, we are more transparent if we need to ask if there is a medical professional on board to assist.

This aircraft was literally inches from disaster. Clearly, we saw [the crew] fighting that altitude as they come in.

The pilot reported to the tower that the plane had possibly hit a drone while flying at about 3,000 feet. The pilot tells ground control that it happened on the 'base leg' of the flight, generally when the plane flies perpendicular to the runway as it prepares to land.

Preliminary reports indicate that the Cessna 208 Caravan may have crashed due to bad weather conditions that caused low visibility, leading to the tragic loss of all 13 onboard.

The state Board of Audit and Inspection found that unplanned manoeuvres for personal filming led to the collision between two F-15K jets during a formation flight near Daegu in December 2021.

"I keep replaying it and just thinking of the what if. The first thing that comes to mind is that he probably wouldn't be here with us."

A small aircraft carrying two people crashed Thursday afternoon on Catalina Island, fire officials said. The plane, which was en route to the island, crashed on landing around 12:20 p.m. in Avalon in a rugged, not easily accessible area.

The Newsom Press Office rant on X came in reply to a World News Tonight report about the near-collision, which occurred on Tuesday at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana.

The twin-engine plane crashed in a remote, wooded area near Leyden on Jan. 14, 2024, killing Fly Lugu Flight School owner Fredrika Ballard, 53, student pilot Chad Davidson, 29, and flight instructor William Hampton, 68. Witnesses later told the National Transportation Safety Board that the plane's engine sounded "clunky" and that the aircraft "corkscrewed" or "spiraled" as it dove nose-down around 11:25 a.m., shortly after departure.

A United Airlines Boeing 787 turned around 15 minutes after takeoff from Los Angeles on Monday after smoke and alarms suggested a fire in one of its two jet engines. United told Business Insider in a statement that there was a "possible engine fire." It added that none of the 268 passengers and crew on board the plane were seriously injured, and that passengers were bused to the terminal and flown out on a different aircraft.

Due to the security situation at the destination, the airline has decided to cancel its flights scheduled for February 28 to/from Tel Aviv and to/from Beirut. Air France will communicate later on its flight schedule to these destinations for the coming days.

It's still "too early" to draw conclusions about the cause of the Delta Air Lines plane crash at Toronto's Pearson airport, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Thursday in an update on its investigation as the one-year anniversary of the incident approaches. The safety board said it's still working on its final report, and the work done so far includes a "comprehensive" metallurgical examination of the plane's landing gear and wing, as well as an analysis of flight data and cockpit voice recorders.

About 45 minutes prior to landing in Honolulu on Dec. 18, 2022, the pilots of Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35, a widebody Airbus A330, saw a white, plume-like cloud swiftly rising vertically ahead of them, caused by a storm cell. Moments later came a hard jolt. Then the airplane dropped rapidly, creating a brief free-falling sensation inside the cabin. Phones, water bottles, blankets and service carts lifted into the air. Passengers were affected as well, with some held down by a seatbelt while others rose upward.

The airspace over Los Angeles is among the most congested in the world, but the Hollywood Burbank Airport is uniquely situated, creating extremely tight parameters around the midsize airport.