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Aloha 243: the accident that showed the danger of ageing aircraft
Thirty years ago tomorrow (April 28) the aviation world was rudely introduced to the problem of ageing transport aircraft, when the fuselage roof blew...
NTSB finds fatigue failure led to trainer crash
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has identified metal fatigue as a factor in the in-flight structural failure that led to the crash...
IATA launches animal welfare assurance program
A new global certification program by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) aims at ensuring the safety and welfare of the millions of live...
Dutch call for take-off warning systems
The Dutch Safety Board has called for the swift development of independent systems which warn pilots when their aircraft has insufficient take-off performance.
The board...
Racers, start your (electric) engines
One hundred years after the first aircraft flew from the United Kingdom to Australia another ‘great air race’ will aim to repeat the excitement...
First the good news; now the not-so-good
Last year, 2017, was the safest year for commercial aviation, with no fatal crashes in jet engine passenger aircraft anywhere in the world, so...
Thunderstruck
The wild ride of a turboprop after discontinuing a landing approach raises issues of pilot experience, human performance and limitations, and cockpit design.
The Shetland...
International accidents 1 February-28 February 2018
The month of February saw only four international commercial accidents of high-capacity air transport aircraft but two of these were deadly, killing 137 people...
When the moment comes
Adrian Park looks at the difference between success and near disaster. It’s called training.
Every pilot wonders if they’ll have what it takes in an...
Fully loaded and going fast
by Morgan Mackay
Skydivers are often asked why they'd want to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane, but what if it wasn't perfect?
I was...
