Category Archives: Latest Aviation News

Aircraft for Trump’s running mate skids off LaGuardia runway.       A Boeing 737-700 carrying the running mate of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump skidded off a wet runway after landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York late on 27 October. The Eastern Airlines-operated charter flight came to a stop on the grass beyond the […]

Serious Runway Incursion – China Fifteen Chinese air traffic controllers were punished by authorities for their involvement in a serious runway incursion incident at Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport last week. On October 10, 2016 China Eastern Airlines flight MU5643, an Airbus A320, was involved in a serious runway incursion incident during takeoff from Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport, China. The aircraft was […]

October 21st – A300B4 Runway Excursion Brazil.    Sterna Cargo flight 9302, an Airbus A300B4-203F, suffered a landing incident at Recife-Guararapes International Airport, Brazil. The aircraft apparently came to rest off the runway with the nose resting on the ground. It’s unclear if the nose landing gear had collapsed or if it had failed to extend. […]

Robot Pilots To Fly Passenger and Cargo Planes.    The US government and industry are collaborating on a program that seeks to replace the second human pilot in two-person flight crews with a robot co-pilot that never tires, gets bored, feels stressed out or gets distracted. The program is funded by the Defense Advanced Research […]

Mismanaged Approach Caused Charter Plane Crash.     The National Transportation Safety Board determined Tuesday that the flight crew’s mismanagement of the approach and multiple deviations from standard operating procedures caused the Nov. 10, 2015, crash of a Part 135 on-demand charter flight in Akron, Ohio. The charter company’s casual attitude toward compliance with standards was […]

Citation runway excursion at Smithfield airport (Rhode Island).         SMITHFIELD, R.I. (WPRI) – An investigation is underway after a small corporate jet left the runway and crashed after landing at North Central State Airport in Smithfield. The Cessna Citation jet was flying from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island on business and landed at North […]

EASA lifts flight ban on Super Puma helicopters.      European safety regulators have lifted the grounding order on Airbus Helicopters Super Puma rotorcraft imposed in the wake of a fatal crash earlier this year, but separate flight bans in the UK and Norway remain in force. A total of 13 passengers and crew died […]

Virgin Australia flight attendant thrown onto galley floor.      A Virgin Australia flight attendant was thrown onto the galley floor of a Boeing 737 passenger jet after the plane’s pilots attempted to stop it from flying too fast on approach to Adelaide Airport last year. The flight attendant suffered a knee injury and another […]

Low-flying Jet flight: Pilots erred in calculating take-off parameters. An initial probe into the reported ‘unsafely’ low take-off by a Jet Airways aircraft from London Heathrow on August 30 has revealed that the pilots based their take off calculations like speed and thrust on the full length of the runway. This despite the fact that […]

Corporate Pilots Found to Skip Safety Checks on 18% of Flights.      Corporate pilots routinely take off without performing required safety checks, a study of thousands of flights by a trade group has found. Prompted by the 2014 crash of a corporate jet at Hanscom Field near Boston that killed billionaire Lewis Katz, which […]