Accidents

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 […]

Three Drug Enforcement Agency agents survived the crash of their Cessna 206 north of Sugar Land Regional Airport (SGR) near Houston, Texas, according to the Aviation Safety Network. The agents were headed to Sugar Land as part of a training mission when the airplane experienced mechanical difficulties, forcing an emergency landing near Fort Bend County […]

Burke Lakefront Airport (BKL) sits snugly nestled along the south shore of Lake Erie and serves mostly business and traditional general aviation traffic, along with a handful of air carrier operations. Pilots like the place for its convenience to downtown Cleveland. Late one December evening in 2016, the pilot of a Cessna Citation CJ4 lost […]

A twin-engine Cessna 335 crashed last Sunday about 10:40 a.m. local time as it approached Florida’s Palm Beach County Park/Lantana Airport. The 335 is an unpressurized version of Cessna’s once-popular Cessna 340. The pilot was last heard on a common traffic advisory frequency indicating he was making his turn to base leg for landing on […]