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Update 13 July 2025: The release of the provisional report on the Air India crash prompts further speculation but we do now have the cause of the double engine thrust loss. It confounds all previous theories because the report states that the Engine/Fuel Cut Off switches “transitioned” to Cut Off, prompting comment from one of …
Thursday 30th January 2025 Reagan Airport Washington DC – Fatal Mid Air collision. At around 8.50 pm, an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ regional jet on approach to Reagan airport, was involved in a collision with a US Army Blackhawk helicopter. Both aircraft crashed into the cold Potomac river; there are no survivors. We await the …
Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 landed at Muan airport with no undercarriage and slid into an earth bank and concrete structure supporting the ILS aerials for the opposite runway. Video of the aircraft sliding a high speed along the paved surface of the runway shows the aircraft intact but travelling at between 150 and 200 mph, …
. An Embraer E190AR aircraft of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed whilst attempting an approach to Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on December 25th. The aircraft had attempted to land at Grozny in Chechnya/Russia and missed the approach, deciding to divert to an alternate airport, when it declared an emergency citing a possible bird strike and loss of …
Azerbaijan Airlines crash near Aktau airport, Christmas Day 2024 Read More »
Iranian President Dead in Helicopter crash Yesterday, (19th May 2024) I was called by the Al Jazeera Arabic service asking for comment on a, “hard landing,” by a helicopter carrying the Iranian President and Foreign Minister. They had been en route to a site near Tabriz and reports stated that bad weather was hampering search …
A French made Dassault Falcon 10 crashed on a snow covered Afghan mountain slope on January 21st (2024) there were six people on board, four crew members survived. The aircraft had been chartered by a Russian businessman to repatriate him and his sick wife from Thailand to Moscow. It seems that they were the two …
Alaska Airlines 1282 Door Failure in Flight. On January 5th (2024) an Alaskan Airlines Boeing MAX 9 aircraft lost a blank door section of the fuselage whilst climbing through 16,000 feet after departing from Portland, Oregon, bound for Ontario, California. The event left an emergency door sized hole in the aircraft and the decompression sucked …
Alaskan Airlines Flight 1282 Door Failure and decompression. Read More »
Japan Airlines collision and fire at Tokyo Haneda. January 2nd 2024: JAL flight 516 was cleared to land on Runway 34Right at Haneda Airport and almost as soon as the main wheels hit the runway the Airbus A350 hit a DeHavilland DHC-8 that had lined up on the same runway in preparation for take-off. The …
Yeti Airlines Flight 691 Crash at Pokhara Nepal. A Yeti Airlines ATR 72 crashed on approach to Pokhara airport Nepal on 15th January 2023; there were 68 on board. The event took place as the aircraft was due to land at the new Pokhara International airport, which opened on January 1st. Video footage taken on …
There are media reports of an Air France flight deck crew coming to blows during a flight from Geneva to Paris in June this year. The French investigation body (BEA) has reported on the incident and it seems that the plots are suspended. The reason for the altercation is not known but it would be …