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Ground Collision between fire truck and Air Canada Express CRJ regional Jet – LaGuardia NY. The controller at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, cleared a Fire Truck, which was responding to an emergency elsewhere on the airport, to cross Runway 04 at the same time that the regional jet was landing. The resulting collision killed both …
Update 26th July 2025: Air India have completed inspections of its Boeing 737 and 787 fleet and found no faults in any of the fuel cut off switches on any of their aircraft. This seems to point to the switches on the crash aircraft being functional as designed as well, especially as they were replaced …
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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 »
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 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 »
Article by Terry Tozer. First published in the Western Morning News in March 2008 Turn on the news and you are likely to hear of another post office closure somewhere in Britain. On Friday (7th March) it was the impending closure of Maida Vale Post Office in London that made the headlines; with celebrities like …
Article by Terry Tozer, first published in the Western Morning News, July 8th 2006 When the big change in Sunday trading laws was made in the1990s, I was in favour of the idea. That the Church was one of the most vociferous opponents only served to convince me that establishment dinosaurs were attempting to stifle …