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Air Astana Out Of Control (KC1833 in 2018)
On the 11th of November 2018, an Air Astana aircraft departed from Alverca airbase in Portugal as Air Astana flight KC1833, after undergoing heavy maintenance. The aircraft was an Embraer E190-100LR registered in Aruba as P4-KCJ. This was a positioning flight from Alverca (LPAR), where the maintenance had been done, to Minsk (UUMS). There were…
Read more… 25 Nov 22
Mid-air collision at Wings Over Dallas
This heartbreaking video is from the tragic midair collision at Wings Over Dallas. The Boeing B-17, known as the Flying Fortress, is a World War II bomber designed by Boeing in response to a US Air Corps interest in a multi-engine bomber which could carry a “useful bombload at 10,000 feet for ten hours with…
Read more… 18 Nov 22
Who can resist a compilation with kittens and spitfires?
I hope you are sitting comfortably because this week I have some extraordinary articles to fill your weekend. These are my favourite aviation-related pieces that I’ve read lately. I found them all fascinating and I’m sure you will too. This man went to the scene of a Boeing crash in 1959 but didn’t think to…
Read more… 11 Nov 22
Pilot in Piper Warrior II Arrested by Highway Patrol
On the 15th of July 2022, an officer of the Missouri State Highway Patrol arrested a man for driving while intoxicated on the westbound Interstate 70 at 3 in the morning. This is relevant to us because the man was “driving” a single-engine aircraft, a Piper Warrior II. The Piper Warrior was a popular successor…
Read more… 4 Nov 22
Canadair Firefighting Crash in Sicily
Yesterday, the 27th of October 2022, a tragic crash of a firefighting aircraft was caught on film in Italy. The aircraft was a Canadair CL-215-6B11, generally referred to as a CL-415, registered in Italy as I-DPCN. The Canadair CL-415 is a variant of the CL-215, a type of amphibious aircraft designed and built by Canadair.…
Read more… 28 Oct 22
Pitot Covers Left On Aircraft At Brisbane. Again.
On the 27th of May 2022, an Airbus A350-941, registered in Singapore as 9V-SHH, was being prepared for scheduled passenger flight SQ256 from Brisbane, Australia to Changi Airport, Singapore. An engineering maintenance contractor at Brisbane providing Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) services was tasked with the maintenance, certification and dispatch required for the A350 during…
Read more… 21 Oct 22
Accident Reports
Taking Off In The Dark
On the 27th of July 2021, an Airbus A320, registration 9V-JSM, was scheduled for a passenger flight from Changi Airport in Singapore to Jakarta, Indonesia. Changi Airport started operation in…
MV-22B Osprey crash onto side of USS Green Bay
On the 5th of August 2017, an MV-22B Osprey crashed while on a routine training mission off the coast of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. The crash resulted in three deaths,…
Demystifying
Post-Pandemic Mystery at Heathrow
In June 2021, the British Air Accident Investigative Branch (AAIB) initiated a fascinating investigation after they noticed three similar incidents at London Heathrow over a three-day period. Soon, they realised…
I am a teapot
A reader contacted me to ask about a missing flight 404; they had heard on a trivia podcast that the original computer error message 404 was based on two flights…
History
The Oldest Footage of Flight
About a week ago, Marléne Aviation posted to Twitter in an attempt to find the oldest video footage of a flight. Marléne Aviation is run by a French aviation history…
Twin Pioneer Down in Libya: Structural Failure in 1956
On the 7th of December 1957, a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer 1, registration G-AOEO, departed an airstrip at Anshan in Libya for a routine flight to Tripoli-Idris Airport. There were…
Fun Stuff
Aviation Videos and Articles for August
I always collect videos and links that I think you might enjoy but apparently, I have been neglecting to actually share them with you! So here’s a “best of the…
Funniest Thing You've Heard On the Radio
I’ve been struggling this week and was just panicking that I would not have a post finished in time for you for today when I discovered that Reddit had saved…
@FearofLanding
Mendel on Air Astana Out Of Control (KC1833 in 2018)The instruments weren't broken. Their first step was sensible: turn off the automation. It's impossible to figure out what's going…
Rudy Jakma on Air Astana Out Of Control (KC1833 in 2018)Some facts and factors: Haste. Time pressure. Insufficient information in the manuals about how to execute this procedure and checks.…
Franky14 on Air Astana Out Of Control (KC1833 in 2018)That works. Not much training. Tailplane “trailing edge up- trailing edge down”. Etc etc. Been there. Done it. Easy. 
CHip on Air Astana Out Of Control (KC1833 in 2018)Military pilots get canopies because they need wider vision, but civil aircraft get front windows; that's why they need people…
Jim on Mid-air collision at Wings Over DallasInstead the P63 appeared tobe in hard lefthand turn at a consideral bank between.45 and 170 degree at speed. Hence…