News and opinion posts related to aviation safety
Flight IX 1134 was carrying 184 passengers and six crew when it overran the runway in heavy rain on Friday, sliding down an embankment and breaking into two main parts. The aircraft stopped around 250 feet below the runway. The flight deck crew are among the 18 who have died so far and around 15 …
Air India Express Runway overrun at Kerala (Kozhikode) on 7th August 2020 Read More »
The official report has now been published regarding an incident in which a RAM ATR 72aircraft, with 54 passengers and four crew, descended below minimum safe altitudeon two occasions, the second time hitting the sea before diverting and landingwith no injuries to passengers or crew but with substantial damage to theaircraft. The report states that …
Royal Air Maroc ATR 72 incident 9th July 2018 at Al Hoceima, Morocco. Read More »
Fatal Crash Karachi May 22nd 2020. PIA flight 8303 A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 carrying 99 people crashed into a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan after reporting loss of thrust on both engines. 97 of those on board died. It will be some time before details from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice …
Fatal Crash of Airbus A320 Karachi May 22nd 2020 Read More »
The UK was hit by a pretty big revolving storm yesterday (9th Feb 2020) which posed significant challenges to the travel world and most notably aviation. Today’s media websites are full of video clips of airliners making approaches in the strong winds, rocking and rolling a bit and often going around when the crew were …
Pegasus airlines, a Turkish low cost carrier, has had a third runway excursion with fatal results. This incident is shocking on several levels. The most obvious is that one airline can have three runway overruns or excursions at all and secondly; what is the role of the Turkish aviation authorities in this latest crash? Was …
Pegasus Boeing 737-800 overuns runway at Istanbul and breaks up. Read More »
Loss of Ukrainian Boeing 737 due to anti aircraft missile. Shortly after takeoff from Iran’s main airport on January 8th 2020 a Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing crashed in flames. The events happened so fast that I am now writing history but on the day in question there was a huge amount of media interest. In …
I am often asked for explanations of an accident as soon as the crash has occurred and of course it is seldom possible to be dfinitive; merely offer likely scenarios. In this particular case we have a lot of evidence to point to likely causes already. The crash – I will no call it an …
Bek Air Fokker 100 Crash Kazakhstan 27th December 2019 Read More »
The terrifying spectacle of the Sukhoi airliner crash landing in Moscow and bursting into a fiery inferno was hard to watch; how can this happen with a modern jetliner? What we see in the video clip is a hard landing followed by a large bounce and a return to earth that was hard enough to …
The tragedy of the young footballer Emilio Sala’s untimely death in an avoidable light aircraft crash has opened a can of worms in the general aviation world that seems to have been aided by the internet and misuse of American regulations. By using US registered aircraft some appear to be avoiding regulatory scrutiny and indulging …
The original B737 was launched in 1965 with small turbojet engines and went on to be a very successful aircraft. As fuel efficiency and noise became priorities, the aircraft was fitted with larger CFM turbofan engines and whilst quieter and more fuel efficient the extra size only just made the under wing location viable, due …
Officially Boeing can mark its own homework – Ethiopian Airlines Crash Update Read More »