Accidents

Someone once suggested that if you want to know how you would feel crossing an ocean in a single-engine airplane, you should just fly out to sea for a couple of hours and then turn around and come back. There’s something about being out of sight of land that, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson’s remark about […]

Multiple Chicago media outlets captured video yesterday of the safe landing of a Cessna 310 – N4120Q – with a malfunctioning nose landing gear. The nosegear did collapse, however, as the pilot tried to gently lower the aircraft’s nose onto Runway 30 at Chicago Executive Airport (PWK). The pilot circled for more than 30 minutes […]

Three people, including the pilot, of a Cessna Citation CJ2+ perished Friday morning when the aircraft plowed into a wooded area just minutes after takeoff from Sellersburg, Indiana’s Jefferson-Clark Regional Airport (JVY). The aircraft was headed for Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW) when it departed JVY about 11:24 local time. According to the the FAA, […]

An investigation is underway into why an Australian charter pilot flying a Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain for Vortex Air, fell asleep inflight during the early morning hours of November 8. The aircraft overflew its original destination, King Island perched in Bass Strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania by 29 miles. Once the pilot, the only […]

In what some pilots are calling an inconceivable moment in flight operations and training, Boeing recently admitted the existence of the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS), an angle of attack related stall prevention system that was unknown to operators of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, like the one flown last week by a Lion […]

Boeing Company today published an update to the flight crew operations manual for its 737 Max 8, warning of a possible fault in the aircraft’s angle of attack system that could cause the aircraft to violently pitch nose down, according to the FAA. The AOA measures the angular difference between the direction the aircraft is […]

In 2018, a Junkers Ju 52 crashed in the Swiss Alps while attempting to cross a 10,000-foot saddle from south to north amid gusting winds.

The crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 into the Java Sea not long after takeoff from Jakarta has stirred many more questions than answers. The accident, early Monday morning U.S. time, claimed the lives of nearly 190 people on board. Monday’s accident is the first for one of Boeing new 737 Max […]

The NTSB included among factors related to the accident the pilot’s overconfidence in himself—and the airplane.

A Dassault Falcon 50 attempting to land on the Greenville Downtown Airport’s (GMU) Runway 19 last Thursday was unable to stop in the 5,393-foot length of the asphalt surface. The trijet eventually rolled off the end of the runway and plummeted down a 35-foot embankment before crashing through the airport’s perimeter fence, where the fuselage […]