A SkyWest Brasilia suffered starboard-engine power loss and fire when climbing through 2,000ft (700m) out of San Diego, California, on 21 May, the US National Transportation Safety Board reports. The propeller auto-feathered and the fire was extinguished using both fire bottles. The crew made a safe, flapless landing at NAS Miramar, with a complete loss of hydraulics. Despite a 400m (1,150ft) overrun, there was no injury to the three crew and 14 passengers on board.
Source: Flight International
Brazilian carrier Voepass has confirmed that one of its ATR 72 turboprops has been involved in an accident while operating to Sao Paulo Guarulhos airport. The aircraft had been conducting flight 2Z2283 from Cascavel on 9 August. Voepass says the aircraft came down in the vinicity of Vinhedo, to the ...
Investigators probing the failure and separation of a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F’s body main landing-gear assembly at Luxembourg last year have found evidence that components in its inner shock-strut cylinder failed. But while a previous similar occurrence involving a Nippon Cargo Airlines 747-400F at Amsterdam in September 2005 was traced to ...
UK investigators have found that a Boeing 737-400 freighter crew inadvertently used weight data from a previous flight to calculate take-off performance, resulting in a tail-strike at East Midlands. The West Atlantic aircraft – with a crew of two, including a first officer under training – had been bound for ...
