Around 53,000 passengers and crew survived US commercial airline accidents over an 18-year period ending last December, according to a study on crash survivability by the US National Transportation Safety Board. Of the 2,700 people involved in the serious crashes, 57% perished in the crash, five times more of them from impact rather than fire.
Source: Flight International
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
American Airlines and United Airlines are resuming flights having been forced to temporarily halt operations as part of the wide-ranging global impact of an IT outage today.
A global technology outage appears to have caused several major US airlines to ground departing aircraft, in addition to creating problems at airports and airlines worldwide that threatens to snarl air traffic.
