Qantas and other operators once had to check a very high number of aircraft, after crews serviced their oxygen tanks with nitrogen. There are many secondary (?) tasks that engineers and other ground crews have to do to aircraft, between flights. One of them is...
A ground crew was towing a United Airlines 767 when the aircraft somehow came loose, taxiing out of control. Luckily, there were no injuries. The incident happened on Christmas Eve (Friday). It involved the aircraft whose crew would later have performed flight UA-846....
A GoJet CRJ-550, flying for United Airlines, had to return for landing after taking off with a ground personnel headset still attached! The incident happened on Wednesday, the 17th of November. It involved a GoJet CRJ-550, performing flight UA-4422, on behalf of...
A parked GOL 737-800 suffered a ground collision when an aircraft stairs trailer rolled into it, in windy conditions. There were no injuries. As we have said before, we don’t notice some hard-working people at airports (and elsewhere) until something goes wrong. This...
A ground worker in St. Petersburg suffered a serious eye injury, when a Pobeda 737 crew flashed their landing lights, while taxiing their aircraft. The worker should make a full recovery, eventually. The ground worker was marshalling the Pobeda 737-800, as it was...
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