Cockpit voice recorder data from the 2 September 1998 Swissair Boeing MD-11 crash off Nova Scotia, reportedly show that the pilots were flying on battery run standby instruments from just over 6 min before impact with the sea. There is also evidence in the tapes, leaked to the Wall Street Journal, that the copilot was encouraging the captain to expedite the descent to the diversion airport, but the captain wanted to follow procedures.
Source: Flight International
Embraer’s automatic take-off system for the E2 is intended to offer increased range by balancing various criteria in order to ensure greater accuracy and efficiency during rotation. The airframer aims to make the Embraer Enhanced Take-off System – or E2TS – available from the fourth quarter of next year. Embraer ...
The January incident at Ellsworth AFB resulted in the destruction of the $450 million bomber and a rare quadruple ejection of the crew, who were attempting to execute an instrument landing during poor weather.
Investigators probing the fatal Bombardier CRJ200 crash at Kathmandu will inevitably focus on the extraordinary attitude the aircraft developed as it lifted off from runway 02. Nepal’s civil aviation regulator states that the captain survived the 24 July accident but the first officer, and the 17 other occupants, did not. ...
