All 66 occupants on board an Icaro Air Fokker F28 escaped injury after the aircraft overran the runway on take-off at Quito, Ecuador on 22 September. The accident during departure for a domestic flight to Coca. The 23-year-old Mk4000 (HC-CDT) careered down a slope and came to rest near residential buildings, destroying the instrument landing system. Quito airport's ILS was destroyed less than a year ago when an Iberia Airbus A340-600 overran while landing.
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Source: Flight International
Investigators are probing an in-flight oscillation at cruise altitude which affected a South African Airways Airbus A330-300 operating a domestic service. The aircraft – flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg on 27 October – had been cruising at 41,000ft when it started to oscillate in pitch, between nose-up and nose-down. ...
Pilots of a Boeing 737-800 did not notice that the aircraft’s bleed-air system was not active before the jet took off from Manchester, triggering a cabin-altitude warning that remained active for over 40min. UK investigators found that the bleed-air switches had incorrectly been left off during air-conditioning pack maintenance, and ...
GE Aerospace is partnering with NASA to carry out a series of flight tests designed to improve the industry’s understanding of contrails.
