Airbus launches new fixed and deployable flight recorders. Airbus announced that it is to implement new fixed and deployable flight recorders on its passenger aircraft in collaboration with L3 Technologies. The new devices will come in two versions: a fixed crash-protected Cockpit Voice and Data Recorder (CVDR), capable of recording up to 25 hours of […]
Runway Excursion Bucharest Otopeni Airport. A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration TC-JMH performing flight TK-1045 from Istanbul (Turkey) to Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) with 176 people on board, landed on Otopeni’s runway 26R at 20:58L (17:58Z) but overran the displaced end of the runway by about 50 meters before coming to a stop. There were […]
China Eastern A332, June 18th 2017, severe turbulence causes loss of 4000 feet and injures 26. A China Eastern Airbus A330-200, registration B-5926 performing flight MU-774 (Jun 17th) from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to Kunming (China), was enroute at FL390 about 260nm northeast of Tyumen (Russia) the aircraft encountered severe turbulence including two large […]
Two Trent engine shut downs in flight yesterday Norwegian B788 over Atlantic on Jun 11th, 2017, engine shut down in flight A Norwegian Air Shuttle Boeing 787-800, registration LN-LNH performing flight DY-7019 from Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) to New York JFK, NY (USA) with 294 people on board, was enroute at FL380 about 400nm […]
‘Pilot error’ blamed for wrong South Dakota airport landing. The flight landed about six miles prematurely. Federal investigators are blaming pilot error for causing a Delta Air Lines flight carrying 129 people to land at the wrong airport in South Dakota. The flight from Minneapolis landed at the Ellsworth Air Force Base, about six miles […]
