Landing aborted seconds from runway

Straighten Up and Fly Right

By: SpkTruth2Pwr

I wrote a post before on the tragedies of the flight/air traffic accidents of the past few years. This http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1028/p02s07

about 1 month ago

Errant US pilots were working on their laptops

By: ahadsarkar

WASHINGTON – Two pilots have told US investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their Airbus passenger jet overflew their Minneapolis, Minnesota, destination by 150 miles (240 kilometers), the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.The pilots told ...

about 1 month ago

Trainer Plane Passenger Pulls Wrong Lever, Ejects During Flight

By: ChristopherSzabo

The South African Air Force (SAAF) has established a Board of Inquiry for an unusual accident last week in which a civilian passenger accidentally ejected from a trainer during tight manoeuvres.  Times Online quoted an unnamed SAAF spokesman saying: “Much of the information has yet to be tested, but it is confirmed that a ...

about 1 month ago

Aviation accidents in Egypt

By: ahmedibrahem

For more than three decades, aviation has seen many of the Egyptian aviation accidents that claimed the lives of hundreds Most of these accidents suffered by the national airline aircraft Egypt Air contrast to the last incident, which involved a plane owned by the Egyptian private airline. In the second of January 1971 went down a ...

about 1 month ago