Lufthansa Flight Training is assisting US investigators probing a fatal crash involving a student pilot at an Arizona aviation school that trains crews for German flag carrier Lufthansa. The single-engined Beech F33 Bonanza crashed about 65km (35nm) south-west of Phoenix on 1 February as the pilot was returning to the Goodyear-based Airline Training Center Arizona after her fifth solo flight.
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.
