All Safety articles – Page 68
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NewsBoeing changes mind, recommends simulator training for all 737 Max pilots
Boeing now is recommending pilots complete flight simulator training prior to returning to the cockpits of 737 Max – a position reversal for a company that long insisted computer-based training was sufficient.
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NewsPegasus 737-800 veers off runway at Istanbul
Pegasus Airlines has disclosed that a Boeing 737-800 suffered a runway excursion while landing in poor weather at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport. The aircraft (TC-CCK) had been arriving from Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, as flight PC747. It conducted its approach to runway 06 at about 09:10 on 7 ...
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NewsBek Air further clouds picture of Fokker 100 crash
Bek Air is still pushing its theory that wake turbulence contributed to the loss of a Fokker 100 during take-off from Almaty, and is also indicating that the proximity of buildings should be examined by the inquiry. The airline has released further flight data which, it says, has been obtained ...
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NewsChecks required after Air France A380 engine blade failures
Investigators have yet to establish the root cause of a fan-blade fracture involved in an engine failure affecting an Air France Airbus A380. The US FAA states that the reason for the first-stage low-pressure compressor blade fracture is “still undetermined” in an interim directive requiring further precautionary action on Engine ...
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NewsInvestigators probe circumstances of WestJet 737 overrun
Canadian investigators have opened a probe into the overrun at Halifax Stanfield airport by a WestJet Boeing 737-800 which was arriving from Toronto on 5 January. The aircraft had been approaching the waypoint TETAR – some 11nm north-west of the airport – when it was told that the intended arrival ...
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NewsAir France A318 captures false glideslope at Toulon
French investigators are probing an incident during which an Airbus A318 encountered a false glideslope on approach to Toulon. The Air France aircraft had been operating from Paris Orly on 20 December, and had been descending towards Hyeres La Palyvestre airport. French investigation authority BEA states that the aircraft captured ...
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NewsVideo purports to show crashed Fokker’s tail being de-iced
Surveillance video images purporting to show an ill-fated Bek Air Fokker 100 being prepared for departure from Almaty indicate the aircraft’s horizontal stabiliser was de-iced. The footage does not appear to show the de-icing vehicle spraying the aircraft’s wings, although there is no confirmation as to whether the wings required ...
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NewsWake separation adequate before Bek F100 take-off: Kazaeronavigatsia
Kazakhstan’s air navigation service is rejecting the possibility that wake vortices from a preceding departure contributed to the aerodynamic instability of the Bek Air Fokker 100 which crashed at Almaty. Kazaeronavigatsia insists that there was sufficient departure spacing between the Bek Air flight, departing for Nur-Sultan on 27 December, and ...
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NewsTaiwan to investigate UH-60M crash that killed top general
Taiwan will probe the fatal crash of a Sikorsky UH-60M helicopter that killed eight, including armed forces leader Gen. Shen Yi-Ming. The crash occurred on the morning of Thursday 2 January in Northern Taiwan, according to the office of Taiwan’s president. Contact with the helicopter was lost 13min after it ...
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NewsSurveillance cameras capture Bek Air Fokker 100 accident
Surveillance cameras at Almaty airport captured the short flight of a Bek Air Fokker 100, and its subsequent collision with a building, after it failed to climb away after take-off on 27 December. After rotation the aircraft appears to start rolling left and right before losing height, according to the ...
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NewsImproved fatal airline accident trend takes step back in 2019
Fatal airline accident data for 2019 appears to confirm that a long period of consistent improvement in airline safety statistics is coming to an end. Until now, modern airline safety performance had improved relentlessly, decade by decade, since the Second World War.
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NewsMed-View 737 depressurisation not reported to investigators
Nigerian specialists have disclosed that a serious depressurisation incident involving a Med-View Airline Boeing 737-500 was not reported to the country’s investigation authority. The aircraft (5N-BQM) had been cruising at 32,000ft en route from Abuja to Lagos, with 34 occupants, on 23 July. Lagos’s runway 18R had been closed and ...
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NewsBoeing clashes with FAA over 727 auxiliary tank explosion risk
Boeing and the US FAA have clashed over a safety modification for Boeing 727s, with the regulator rejecting three attempts by the airframer to have the proposal withdrawn. The FAA’s concern centres on 727s fitted with Boeing’s body-mounted auxiliary fuel tanks. It argues that the fuel-quantity indicating system presents a ...
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NewsPassengers evacuate AirAsia A320 via slides, carrying bags
An AirAsia Airbus A320 made an emergency landing on 30 December at Langkawi, with passengers disembarking via three slides. The aircraft was operating flight AK9327 for Kuala Lumpur, says the airline. It cites a “technical issue” for the turnback. Video: AirAsia flight AK9327 makes emergency return landing at ...
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NewsCrashed Fokker 100 oscillated sharply before losing height: Bek Air
Kazakh carrier Bek Air has disclosed details of the in-flight upset which affected the Fokker 100 which crashed on take-off from Almaty on 27 December.
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NewsGust lock left on before Jetstream excursion at Munster
German investigators have determined that a British Aerospace Jetstream 32 did not have a modification intended to prevent inadvertent take-off with engaged gust locks before it suffered a damaging excursion during departure from Munster. According to cockpit-voice recorder information the crew – while preparing to line up on runway 25 ...
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NewsATR flew return sector after captain failed to see tail-strike damage
Investigators have revealed that a White Airways ATR 72-600 operated a return flight to Lisbon in an unairworthy state after the captain failed to notice significant damage to the turboprop following a hard landing. The aircraft, operating for TAP Express, suffered a tail-strike after an unstable approach resulted in a ...
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NewsATR 72 tail-strike inquiry cites pilot-shortage pressure
Portuguese investigators have indicated that a shortage of pilots might have pressured carrier White Airways to release a trainee ATR first officer for flight without a safety pilot, the day before a damaging tail-strike at Fez. The ATR 72-600 had been operating Lisbon-Fez, on behalf of TAP Express, on 6 ...
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NewsRussian investigators to analyse Bek Air Fokker’s flight recorders
Russian investigators are to analyse the flight recorders from the Bek Air Fokker 100 which crashed during take-off from Almaty on 27 December. The recorders have been retrieved from the wreckage, says Kazakhstan’s ministry of industry, and they will be transferred to the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee for analysis in ...
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NewsBek Air Fokker crash inquiry set to analyse freezing Almaty conditions
Investigators probing the fatal Bek Air Fokker 100 accident at Almaty will be seeking to establish whether freezing conditions contributed to the aircraft’s failure to climb away during take-off. Mist was present at the time, according to Almaty airport meteorological data, with the air temperature of minus 12C close to ...