AIT Recorders has developed a digital air-traffic-control (ATC) data-recording system, which it claims can simultaneously record all radar, voice and environmental data entering an ATC centre, using digital compression techniques. The UK company's Comfile 2000 Digital Recorder uses DAT cassettes as the storage medium, along with a 1Gb hard disk for temporary storage, allowing instant replay of recently recorded information.
Source: Flight International
The January incident at Ellsworth AFB resulted in the destruction of the $450 million bomber and a rare quadruple ejection of the crew, who were attempting to execute an instrument landing during poor weather.
Investigators probing the fatal Bombardier CRJ200 crash at Kathmandu will inevitably focus on the extraordinary attitude the aircraft developed as it lifted off from runway 02. Nepal’s civil aviation regulator states that the captain survived the 24 July accident but the first officer, and the 17 other occupants, did not. ...
A Bombardier CRJ200 operated by Nepalese carrier Saurya Airlines has crashed during take-off from Kathmandu airport, with fatalities among those on board.
