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International accidents: 1 July–31 July 2018
Date 10 July
Aircraft Convair CV-340
Location 6 km (3.8 miles) ESE of Pretoria-Wonderboom Airport (PRY), South Africa
Fatalities 1
Description The aircraft was on a scenic flight. There...
Phoebus and me
Glider pilot Warren Scanlon learns the importance of ergonomics and familiarity
Having been a member of Waikerie Gliding Club for about four or five years...
More than a ‘noisy tape measure’
Remotely piloted aircraft systems are adding speed and accuracy to aircraft accident investigation
Use the words ‘drone’, ‘accident’ and ‘investigation’ in the same sentence and...
Glider sets stratospheric record
A five-and-a-half-hour flight over the Patagonian mountains of southern Argentina by the Airbus Perlan II has broken its own altitude record by more than...
Airservices—assisting you in the cockpit
Most pilots would be familiar with the day-to-day services of air traffic control (ATC) which manages approximately four million aircraft movements each year across...
Introducing Mayday Fuel
Aviation English has borrowed from the French two important terms—Mayday, from venez m'aider, meaning ‘come and help me’, and Pan Pan (from panne, meaning a breakdown).
Mayday,...
The brace position: what passengers need to know
It seems absurd that something as simple as changing your sitting posture in a vehicle travelling at up to 1200 km/h groundspeed could make...
International accidents and incidents 1 June – 30 June 2018
Date 14 June
Aircraft de Havilland Canada DHC-8-202Q Dash 8
Location Mendi Airport (MDU), Papua New Guinea
Fatalities Nil
Description The aircraft was parked on a ramp at the airport when it was...
All escape alive from Mexican jet crash
From a flight operations point of view, this week’s crash of an Aeromexico Embraer 190 is an obvious case of something going wrong; from...
When it all just gelled
Adrian Park writes about a crew who rose to the challenge of a confounding fuel system problem
‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking. As...
