#aviation-safety

#aviation-safety

Instead of soaring through the air like a magnificent crane, Amazon's delivery drones ended up smashing into one. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant temporarily suspended drone deliveries in the West Valley area near Phoenix, Arizona after two of its MK30 drones collided with a construction crane just miles away from an Amazon warehouse. It's yet another example of the company's struggles to achieve Jeff Bezos' vision of delivering packages right to customers' doorsteps with autonomous robots.

A collision occurred Wednesday night between two Delta Air Lines planes on a taxiway at LaGuardia Airport in New York. In a statement, Delta Air Lines said that a "low-speed collision" occurred between Endeavor Air Flight 5047, arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Endeavor Flight 5155, which was scheduled to depart for Roanoke, Virginia. Endeavor is a Delta subsidiary. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in its own statement that the crash occurred just before 10 p.m. Eastern Time.

On Tuesday, unless Congress acts, America will lose critical counter-drone protections, making it easier for adversaries and criminals to exploit our skies. Absent congressional action, the federal government's ability to mitigate drone threats will be called into legal question, as key authorities lapse. Should this occur, it will put our nation's critical infrastructure and American lives at risk by creating an unnecessary gap in the fabric of our nation's security.

Just three months after the catastrophic Air India crash, engineers have been inspired to come up with a potential solution. And although it may look peculiar, it might just save thousands of lives per year. The concept, dubbed Project Rebirth, is an adapted airplane system that uses massive airbags akin to the ones found in cars. Sensors and AI software can detect when a crash is going to happen, triggering fast deployment of airbags at the nose, belly, and tail. The bags collectively form a huge protective cocoon, ensuring that any unplanned descent to the ground is not a violent or explosive one, however fast the plane is going. So although it might be a bumpy landing, a catastrophic impact is avoided and passengers and crew would be ultimately safe.

Emerson was subdued by the flight crew after trying to cut the engines of a Horizon Air flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco on 22 October 2023, while he was riding in an extra seat in the cockpit. The plane was diverted to Portland, where it landed safely with more than 80 people on board. Emerson told police he was despondent over a friend's recent death, had taken psychedelic mushrooms about two days earlier, and hadn't slept in more than 40 hours.

'Safety is always our top priority. Our Pilots followed procedures and Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions while en route to San Juan (SJU).'

In recent months, Africa's skies have been under intense scrutiny as a series of fatal crashes have raised questions over pilot training, regulatory enforcement, maintenance standards, weather preparedness and other key issues pertaining to the safety of continent's aviation industry.

The Airbus A380 has 16 emergency doors, strategically located to allow passengers to evacuate swiftly, irrespective of their seating position on the aircraft.

An unruly passenger on Breeze Airways flight 704 disrupted a cross-country journey, yelling racial slurs and waving a skateboard, leading to a diversion.

While pilots rarely get sick mid-flight, incidents do occur. Most pilots assess their fitness prior to flying using the FAA's IMSAFE Checklist to ensure they are healthy.

At airports, grass is the star, because there can be no bushes or trees, which attract birds, and no flowers either, because they attract too many bugs.

Virgin Australia is considering rule changes regarding lithium batteries after a fire on a flight was allegedly caused by a passenger's power bank.

A Turkish Airlines flight bound for San Francisco was diverted after a passenger died over Greenland, landing at Chicago O'Hare Airport.

Every day, birds and airplanes collide, accounting for approximately 19,000 incidents across nearly 800 US airports in 2023, costing airlines an estimated $461 million.

The five-year flight ban on Pakistani airlines was lifted by Britain after significant improvements in aviation safety standards were recognized.

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Over years of flying, it had been drilled into the crew to pull back on the controls when such an alarm sounded, but on this occasion the pilot took no action. The crew were prepared for their system to make spurious warnings and knew from experience they were still flying at a safe altitude.

A United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Rome had to be diverted Sunday after an unexplained mechanical issue, making an emergency landing eight hours into the flight.

Many of us have been pointing out that you are announcing growth, but we are terribly behind on safety, said Mohan Ranganathan, a former instructor pilot and aviation safety consultant.