All Safety articles – Page 46
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NewsFAA proposes GEnx disk inspections to address uncontained failure risk
The risk of uncontained engine failures has led the Federal Aviation Administration to propose requiring airlines to inspect disks inside the high-pressure turbines of some GE Aviation GEnx powerplants.
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NewsA321 hit windshear before short landing and tail-strike
US investigators have determined that an American Airlines Airbus A321 landed short of the runway and suffered a tail-strike after encountering a microburst on approach to Charlotte-Douglas airport. But the National Transportation Safety Board points out that the crew had not adopted the airline’s guidance on approach speed and aircraft ...
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NewsIndiGo A320 nearly touched down on unfinished runway in Male
A lack of pre-flight planning and runway confusion nearly caused an Airbus A320 operated by Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo to land on an unfinished runway at Male, Maldives. India’s Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) classifies the 3 February 2019 incident as a “marginally avoided” controlled flight into terrain. At ...
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NewsMissing ‘lockwire’ caused 2015 767 fire at Fort Lauderdale
Maintenance failures led to a fuel spill that caused a Boeing 767-200ER operated by Dynamic International Airways to catch fire on the ground at Fort Lauderdale in 2015.
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NewsIndia’s DGCA frets over more loss of control incidents
India’s aviation regulator has identified airprox incidents, runway incursions and unstable approaches among its eight safety priorities, following a spike in cases during 2018. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has also flagged in-flight loss of control as a new area of concern, following a two-fold increase in ...
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NewsNTSB urges regulators to close loophole allowing less-stringent lithium-ion battery tests
A battery fire inside a FedEx truck in 2016 has led the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to recommend tighter regulation of some lithium-ion batteries.
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NewsKalitta 737 freighter involved in Rochester runway incident
A Boeing 737-400 Special Freighter operated by Kalitta Charters II ran off a Rochester, New York runway following a rejected takeoff on 5 June, coming to stop on grass beside the runway.
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NewsBoeing modifying 777 fuel indicator after in-flight discrepancy incidents
Boeing is developing a modification for passenger and freighter 777s after the discovery of a fuel discrepancy problem involving the centre wing tank. The modification follows at least 25 instances of disparity between the aircraft’s fuel-quantity indicator for the centre tank and the uplifted amount from refuelling trucks – after ...
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NewsEasyJet and Wizz among first to adopt new EASA protocol
Aegean Airlines, EasyJet and Wizz Air have become the first carriers to sign up to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency’s protocol of measures aimed at ensuring the safe restoration of air services.
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NewsArmenian carriers blacklisted over weak certification and monitoring
All Armenian carriers have been blacklisted by the European Commission, after more than six months of discussions with the Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia over safety concerns relating to its oversight capability. Two Armenian airlines – Aircompany Armenia and Armenia Airways – as well as the Civil Aviation Committee were ...
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NewsInvestigators download data from crashed PIA A320 recorders
Investigators have downloaded information from the two flight recorders retrieved from the Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 which crashed in Karachi. French investigation authority BEA states that – at the request of the Pakistani inquiry team – it has “successfully” obtained information from the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders. “Analysis of ...
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NewsRunaway trolley injured several passengers on Air France 777
French investigators believe cabin crew’s increased workload, after an unexpected change of aircraft type, meant a trolley was left unsecured and injured several passengers when it broke free. The accident occurred on board an Air France Boeing 777-300ER (F-GSQL) departing Mauritius for Paris Charles de Gaulle on 16 September 2018. ...
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NewsUtair 737 hit 1.1m snow bank short of runway: inquiry
Investigators have determined that snow-clearance at Usinsk airport was inadequate before a landing accident in which a Utair Boeing 737-500 struck a shallow snow bank, about 1.1m high, situated 32m before the runway. The inquiry has also revealed that the aircraft was consistently slightly low on its descent path during ...
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NewsRunway assumption caused Indonesia AirAsia A320 to make wrong turn
In November 2017, an Indonesia AirAsia first officer assumed the departure runway from Perth would be the same as the arrival runway, and inputed the wrong data into the flight management guidance system. As a result, the Airbus A320 made a left turn after take off that was lower ...
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NewsWake-vortex crash probe baffled by tight separation decision
Investigators have not been able to explain why the captain of a Diamond Aircraft DA62 calibration flight repeatedly breached minimum separation distances from commercial traffic at Dubai before a fatal wake-turbulence accident. Analysis of the accident sequence indicates the UK Flight Calibration Services DA62, conducting approaches to runway 30L, had ...
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NewsMD-82 almost stalled at low level after go-around thrust overlooked
Bulgarian investigators have revealed that a Boeing MD-82 almost stalled while nose-high at low level, after the crew did not engage go-around thrust during a missed approach at Tarbes-Lourdes airport. The Bulgarian Air Charter aircraft descended to about 40ft while still nearly 500m from the runway, flying close to the ...
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NewsFrench investigators to download crashed PIA A320 recorders
French investigators are to handle the downloading of flight-recorder data from the Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 which crashed in Karachi on 22 May. The cockpit-voice recorder has been located, days after the flight-data recorder was retrieved, French investigation authority BEA states. BEA says it has received a request from ...
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NewsFedEx MD-11F, Hong Kong Airlines A330 in airprox incident
The Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (CAD) is investigating a loss of separation incident at Hong Kong International airport, involving a FedEx Boeing MD-11 freighter and a Hong Kong Airlines (HKA) Airbus A330-300.
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NewsE-Jet operators told to act to avert trim-switch misfitting
Operators of Embraer 170 and 190 regional jets are being instructed to modify control yokes to prevent horizontal stabiliser trim switches being inadvertently wrongly installed. Brazil’s national civil aviation regulator, ANAC, has advised of “occurrences” in which the pitch-trim switches on the yokes have been fitted with poles inverted. This ...
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NewsATSB report highlights safety issues with firefighting
An increase in aerial fire-fighting activities in Australia over recent years has contributed to a higher rate of safety incidents, according to the country’s air accident investigation body, although stresses there has not been an rise in the risk per flight.