A flying instructor died inflight after suffering a cardiac arrest, but his co-pilot thought he was fooling around and only realized after landing on the runway with the man slumped on his shoulder. According to a newly published safety report on the incident, the pilot thought the instructor was pretending to be asleep as the…
A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 nearly impacted the ocean on December 18. A Boeing 777-200 taking off from Maui’s airport nearly impacted the ocean on December 18, in a serious incident revealed by the The Air Current according to data from Flight Radar 24. The United Airlines Boeing Boeing 777-222 aircraft (reg. N212UA) was performing…
The two black boxes had been read “successfully” and give first clues on what happened. The Yeti Airline ATR-72 – reg. 9N-ANC – was carrying 68 passengers and 4 crew members when it crashed near Pokhara International Airport. Announcing that the two black boxes had been read “successfully” in Singapore, the AIC (air accident investigation…
A baggage handler was sucked into the engine of an American Airlines Embraer 175. On December 31, 2022, about 1539 eastern standard time (EST), an Embraer 170 airplane, N264NN, was involved in an accident while parked at the gate with one engine running at Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM), Montgomery, Alabama. One ramp personnel was fatally…
A report has been released looking into what caused a Boeing 787’s nose to smash into the tarmac at Heathrow Airport back in 2021. The crash, which was caused by a failure with landing gear according to the report, led to serious damage to the plane and left one member of the ground staff and…
The engineer who made the error did not realize what had happened. Tens of thousands of travelers were left stranded Wednesday after the FAA sent out a tweet at 7:20 a.m. ordering the airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. ET “to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety…
A cabin crew member was severely injured when the aircraft passed through a zone of strong windshear and turbulence. When the crew contacted the Milan ACC, 20 min before the occurrence, they were already engaged in storm cell avoidance manoeuvres. Other crews were also avoiding storm zones. This weather situation had been forecast. The meteorological…
A Lockheed C-130 large air tanker that impacted the ground following an aerial firefighting retardant drop likely aerodynamically stalled when flying in hazardous conditions that included windshear and an increasing tailwind, an ATSB investigation has found. All three crew on board were fatally injured when the aircraft impacted slightly rising terrain while conducting a climbing…
NTSB Issues the preliminary report into an incident involving United Airlines Flight 2627, a Boeing 737-9 Max, N37513, that landed on the wrong runway at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 21, 2022. On June 21, 2022, at 0944 eastern daylight time (EDT), United Airlines Flight 2627, a Boeing 737-9 Max, N37513, was…
Two Air Canada planes missed colliding at Toronto Pearson after the flight crew of a Boeing 777 and air traffic control missed a radio call saying another plane was still on the runway, a report says. On 07 March 2020, at 0948 Eastern Standard Time, the Air Canada Embraer ERJ 190-100 IGW (Embraer 190) aircraft…
The Vistara pilot, who was the first officer on the flight, landed the aircraft at the Indore airport without first getting the requisite training in a simulator. Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on Vistara for letting an improperly trained pilot land an aircraft with passengers on board at…
A cargo plane was written off due to “extensive damage” after a hard landing at Exeter Airport, a report said. The Boeing 737-4Q8 was returning from East Midlands Airport with a pilot and co-pilot who were not injured. The plane was “beyond economical repair”, a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said. West…