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NewsProbe opens after SAS A320neo aborts take-off from short Brussels taxiway
Investigators are examining the circumstances of a serious incident at Brussels airport in which an SAS Airbus A320neo commenced its take-off roll on a short taxiway. The aircraft (SE-ROM) had been operating a service to Copenhagen on 5 February. It appears to have been heading south on an outer apron ...
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NewsLATAM 777-300ER pilot's 100t calculation error preceded tail-strike at Milan
Italian investigators have determined that a LATAM Boeing 777-300ER crew introduced a 100t weight error while calculating take-off performance, resulting in a tail-strike at Milan Malpensa. Investigation authority ANSV had previously indicated a discrepancy in the take-off parameters used by the crew and those calculated by the airline after the ...
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NewsE170’s near-collision with UH-1N foreshadowed fatal Washington accident
Contained within the plethora of newly-released information relating to last year’s fatal Washington mid-air collision are details of an uncannily similar incident, in the same location, during which the crew of an Embraer 170 narrowly avoided a military helicopter. The National Transportation Safety Board’s docket on the 29 January 2025 ...
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NewsWestJet 737 aborted take-off at high speed after pilot’s seat shifted backwards
Canadian investigators have disclosed that a WestJet Boeing 737-700 rejected take-off at high speed after the first officer’s seat unlatched and fully shifted backwards. The first officer had been the flying pilot at the time of the 26 January departure to Calgary from Comox, on Vancouver Island. According to the ...
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NewsAir India told to ensure pilots follow correct procedures after 787 fuel-switch snag
India’s civil aviation regulator is advising Air India to circulate recommended Boeing procedures for operating fuel cut-off switches on the 787, after crew concerns emerged during a London Heathrow-Bengaluru service. The 1 February flight was conducted by a 787-8 identified by the Indian DGCA as VT-ANX. It states that, during ...
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NewsUS FAA finalises 25h CVR mandate with later deadline for smaller aircraft types
US regulators have finalised a requirement for new-build civil aircraft to carry cockpit-voice recorders with 25h duration, although an extended compliance period will be granted to lower-weight models.
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NewsInstrument problems and crew qualification issues emerge in Citation crash probe
Investigators probing a fatal Cessna 550 Citation II accident in North Carolina last month have detailed evidence of instrument problems, and possible engine discrepancies, as it climbed away from Statesville regional airport. The crash occurred on 18 December as the aircraft attempted to return to the airport with unspecified problems. ...
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NewsFlight recorders recovered from crashed Satena Beech 1900D
Colombian investigators have retrieved both flight recorders from the Satena Beech 1900D which crashed while operating a domestic service on 28 January. The country’s ministry of transport states that “significant progress” has been made in the technical inquiry into the crash which resulted in 15 fatalities. Air transport regulator Aeronautica ...
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NewsJetBlue A320 lost 100ft altitude in upset that preceded software grounding: inquiry
US investigators state that 22 occupants of a JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 were injured during an in-flight pitch upset which subsequently triggered a mass grounding of Airbus jets for a software modification. The incident, on 30 October last year, occurred as the aircraft was cruising at 35,000ft over the Gulf ...
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NewsHeliOffshore picks Duncan Trapp as new chair as organisation continues safety push
Global rotorcraft safety organisation HeliOffshore has appointed industry veteran Duncan Trapp as its new chair-elect, to succeed incumbent Bill Chiles from April.
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NewsNo survivors among 15 on board crashed Satena Beech 1900D in north Colombia
Colombian authorities have confirmed no survivors among the 15 occupants of a Satena Beech 1900D turboprop which crashed while operating a domestic service. Satena states that the aircraft’s wreckage was discovered in the vicinity of Curasica, in the district of La Playa de Belen, about 45nm northwest of its departure ...
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NewsCollision inquiry seeks lower altitude threshold for inhibiting alerts
US investigators are recommending that the FAA evaluate reducing the altitude at which future collision-avoidance systems are inhibited, in order to offer protection closer to the ground. The recommendation has emerged from the inquiry into last year’s mid-air collision between an MHIRJ CRJ700 regional jet and a Sikorsky UH-60L military ...
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NewsIndian political figure’s Learjet crashed during second approach to uncontrolled airfield
India’s civil aviation directorate has disclosed that a Learjet 45 which crashed on approach to the uncontrolled Baramati airfield had already conducted a go-around owing to a lack of visual runway contact. The aircraft had been carrying two crew members and three passengers, one of whom was Ajit Pawar, the ...
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NewsBA assisting probe after A350-1000 sheds wheel on take-off
British Airways is assisting with investigation after a main landing-gear wheel detached from an Airbus A350-1000 on take-off from Las Vegas. The 26 January incident was captured on a live surveillance camera at the airport, with sparks emerging from the main landing-gear as the twinjet accelerated along runway 26R. As ...
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NewsSpeed-data entry error preceded 747-400F’s undetected tail-strike
German investigators have disclosed that an Air Atlanta Icelandic Boeing 747-400 freighter captain entered an incorrect rotation speed into the flight-management system, before the aircraft sustained a tail-strike on take-off from Frankfurt Hahn. The speed entry of 141kt was 30kt below the correct figure of 171kt which the pilots had ...
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NewsPilot of crippled skydiving 750XL did not carry own rescue parachute
Swiss investigators have highlighted a prior recommendation that pilots of skydiving aircraft should also wear a parachute in their findings over a fatal Pacific Aerospace 750XL crash two years ago. The recommendation emerged from a June 1998 accident at Bad Ragaz, in which a Cessna U206G suffered the loss of ...
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NewsNTSB simulation shows Black Hawk barely visible before fatal collision with CRJ700
A digital recreation of the fatal January 2025 collision between a PSA Airlines CRJ700 and US Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington shows the military rotorcraft was nearly impossible to see against city lights when the crash occurred.
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NewsUPS withdraws its entire MD-11F fleet from service after Louisville crash
US freight specialist UPS has retired its entire Boeing MD-11F fleet, the company has disclosed in a full-year financial briefing. One of its MD-11Fs had been involved in a fatal accident at Louisville in early November, and this led to the US FAA’s grounding of the type – a grounding ...
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NewsBrazilian probe into H160 helicopter ditching points to fatigue failure of main rotor part
Brazilian investigators have disclosed the sequence of events that led to the ditching of an Airbus Helicopters H160 off the coast of Brazil in early January, although are yet to reach a conclusion for the fatigue failure of a critical part of the main rotor assembly.
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NewsCold comfort: When de-icing is no guarantee of winter safety
While investigators have yet to draw any conclusions about the Bombardier Challenger 600 crash in Bangor, the type – and its derivatives – have previously been the subject of scrutiny owing to the sensitivity of their wings to contamination. The Challenger is a wide-cabin business jet, among the first aircraft ...