Immediate and repetitive inspections of the wing attachments on all North American Rockwell SNJ/AT-6 Texan/Harvard “warbirds” have been ordered by the US Federal Aviation Administration after a 9 May fatal accident in which the wing failed on an aircraft being used for aerobatic training. The emergency airworthiness directive requires fluorescent penetrant inspection of the attach angles for fatigue cracks, before further flight and thereafter every 200h.
Source: Flight International
A Bombardier CRJ200 operated by Nepalese carrier Saurya Airlines has crashed during take-off from Kathmandu airport, with fatalities among those on board.
Russian investigators have disclosed that the crashed Gazpromavia Yakovlev Superjet 100 crew switched to manual control after the aircraft started to pitch down, briefly arresting the descent, before it entered a steep fatal dive. The aircraft took off from Lukhovitsy airport, bound for Moscow Vnukovo, on 12 July following “periodic ...
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
