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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...
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...
