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Bad day at Blackbushe
An idiom (not to be confused with ‘idiot’) can be a surprising source of street (and flight) wisdom.
Idioms are ‘distinctive expressions whose meanings are...
Beware of the dogma
‘One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.’ Sylvia Plath
I make no secret of the fact that...
International accidents and incidents 1 April – 30 April 2018
Date 2 April
Aircraft Cessna 150 and Cessna 525C Citation CJ4
Location Marion Municipal Airport, Indiana, (MZZ) USA
Fatalities 2
Description A Cessna 150 that was taking off was destroyed when it collided...
Lack of lubrication caused Canadian gear landing emergency
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has found that inadequate training of maintenance personnel contributed to a nose gear landing incident in July 2016.
The...
A blackout in the dark
by David Francis
Introduction
My wife and I spent seven years building our pre-retirement project, an RV7. It started out as a simple VFR project, then...
Budget funding for SBAS
This week’s Federal Budget includes nearly $161 million to develop an Australian satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS), capable of providing many GNSS-equipped aircraft with the...
International accidents 1 March – 31 March 2018
Date 11 March
Aircraft Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604
Location near Shahr-e Kurd, Iran
Fatalities 11
Description A Turkish corporate jet on a flight from Sharjah, UAE to Istanbul,...
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...
