Reports have emerged that an airline had to take action when two of its pilots had a fight in the middle of a flight. So what happened? Aircraft cockpits aren’t huge. There is some variability there, for example with A320 pilots boasting of the extra space in their...
In a strange incident at New York’s JFK, it appears that an ITA Airbus A330 may have taken off after a ground collision with another aircraft. Ground collisions between aircraft aren’t unheard of – especially during busy periods. But it is unusual for the crew of an...
A Boeing 777 crew had to perform a terrain escape manoeuvre, after a weather deviation put them much too close to a mountain, at 9,000 feet! Pilots have to assess possible risks for each flight – more specifically, for each phase of each flight. But when it comes to...
What happens if a jet suffers an uncontained engine failure and loses a fan disk hub while overflying a glacier? And you really NEED the hub? The people asking themselves these rather unlikely but very serious questions were air accident investigators. They worked for...
In an unusual incident, the crew of a Boeing 777 went around when the aircraft wasn’t responding to their commands. They later landed safely. The incident happened on the 5th of April, involving Air France flight AF-11. This is a daily evening flight, departing from...
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