Monthly Archives: March 2017

Challenger 604 – Uncontrolled Roll in A380 Wake Turbulence.

Challenger 604 – Uncontrolled Roll in A380 Wake Turbulence.       A Challenger 604 at FL340 operating from Male-Abu Dhabi passed an A380 opposite direction at FL350, one thousand feet above, about 630nm southeast of Muscat, Oman, over the Arabian Sea. A short time later (1-2 minutes) the aircraft encountered wake turbulence sending the aircraft […]

DAC Luxembourg – Assessment Skills Training

DAC Luxembourg.   ITS have delivered a non-technical skills assessment training course to Flight Ops Inspectors at the Direction de l’Aviation Civile in Luxembourg. The training course delivered the skills necessary to understand the concept and practicality of non-technical skills assessments, reviewed alternative NOTECHS schemes and discussed other elements relevant to an oversight of operators’ CRM assessment schemes […]

SAAB 340 loses propeller in flight.

SAAB 340 loses propeller in flight.    Regional airline Rex has grounded some of its planes as an investigation continues into how a propeller fell off an aircraft as it approached Sydney airport late last week. Regional Express has revealed the crew had shut down the right-hand engine of the Saab 340 before the propeller […]

MD83 at Detroit overruns runway on takeoff

MD83 at Detroit overruns runway on takeoff.      An Ameristar McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration N786TW performing charter flight 7Z-9363 from Detroit Willow Run, MI to Washington Dulles, DC (USA), was accelerating for takeoff from Willow Run’s 23L at about 15:40L (20:40Z) when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed but overran the end of […]