#aviation-safety

#aviation-safety

I do have limbs on the runway, I believe the aircraft struck an individual, an airport staff member could be heard saying. Okay, so we have a plane into an individual, that's where we're at? another responded. Yeah, I've got what appears to be a deceased person on the runway, the first staff member said.

And after this set of May election results is fully in, we can already be sure we're going to get an extremely anguished debate about whether we should get another new pilot. These days, many across the whole political spectrum feel excessively tribal about stanning for their preferred pilot, but both within Labour and without, I must say I don't love any of the choices on offer. Several of them are having some kind of medical emergency of their own.

The Ryanair boss said airports should be banned from serving alcohol before early flights to reduce the number of disruptive passengers on planes, telling the Times on Wednesday that Ryanair was having to divert an average of nearly one flight a day because of bad behaviour onboard, up from one a week 10 years ago.

If something is wrong, gestures are certainly used internally, for security reasons, to communicate with the flight deck and deescalate the situation. In the event of a medical emergency, we are more transparent if we need to ask if there is a medical professional on board to assist.

This aircraft was literally inches from disaster. Clearly, we saw [the crew] fighting that altitude as they come in.

The pilot reported to the tower that the plane had possibly hit a drone while flying at about 3,000 feet. The pilot tells ground control that it happened on the 'base leg' of the flight, generally when the plane flies perpendicular to the runway as it prepares to land.

Preliminary reports indicate that the Cessna 208 Caravan may have crashed due to bad weather conditions that caused low visibility, leading to the tragic loss of all 13 onboard.

The state Board of Audit and Inspection found that unplanned manoeuvres for personal filming led to the collision between two F-15K jets during a formation flight near Daegu in December 2021.

"I keep replaying it and just thinking of the what if. The first thing that comes to mind is that he probably wouldn't be here with us."

A small aircraft carrying two people crashed Thursday afternoon on Catalina Island, fire officials said. The plane, which was en route to the island, crashed on landing around 12:20 p.m. in Avalon in a rugged, not easily accessible area.

The Newsom Press Office rant on X came in reply to a World News Tonight report about the near-collision, which occurred on Tuesday at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana.

The twin-engine plane crashed in a remote, wooded area near Leyden on Jan. 14, 2024, killing Fly Lugu Flight School owner Fredrika Ballard, 53, student pilot Chad Davidson, 29, and flight instructor William Hampton, 68. Witnesses later told the National Transportation Safety Board that the plane's engine sounded "clunky" and that the aircraft "corkscrewed" or "spiraled" as it dove nose-down around 11:25 a.m., shortly after departure.