Last week, I was struck by the difference in headlines: The BBC reported Heathrow Airport runways closed for emergency landing while a rather less professional journal chose the headline Plane on Fire Flying Over Central London. Anyway, the AAIB have released a special bulletin regarding the Airbus A319 that had an engine fire departing from…
Read more… 7 Jun 13
I’ve been very busy on the next edition of Why Planes Crash, so I don’t have an exciting new article for you. But this collection of maintenance complaints and solutions never gets old. I know, these are just too good to be true! I did try to find the original source but I failed miserably.…
Read more… 31 May 13
Confusion Radio Communications for Beginners: in which One One X-Ray gets slightly confused coming into Muenster/Osnabrueck, with subtitles and background laughter by Steve Paul. I have to say this is also a great example of why a controller should be able to switch into the native language to try to help a clearly confused new…
Read more… 8 Mar 13
This week, I want to share with you a collection of close calls (each with a happy ending) collected from around the Internet. The FAA are investigating this video of a stunt aircraft coming dangerously close to people on the ground. A commenter who claims to have been on site when the video was filmed…
Read more… 25 Jan 13
Some times, there’s just too many fun links to get down to work. Here’s a collection of new websites I was reading / watching when I should have been writing you a new post… Landing short and checking out my balance in my Wild West Aircraft Highlander (Just Aircraft) Rockwell Collins brings head-up flying to…
Read more… 9 Nov 12
This week there were so many interesting things in the news, the best thing that I could do was gather them all together for you to enjoy them with me. Felix Baumgartner’s 23-Mile-High Skydive Aborted Due To Wind | Popular Science 12:27am MDT – Thompson in response to a journalist’s question about syncing the delay…
Read more… 12 Oct 12
On the 20th of February 2021, United Airlines flight 328 made international headlines when a fan blade separated from the right engine shortly after take-off. Flight UA328 was a scheduled…
It was an overcast day on the morning of the 8th of September 2011 when people in West Liberty, Ohio, heard the sounds of a low-flying aircraft approaching. The Cirrus…
On Monday, two commercial aircraft had a near-miss on the runway at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas. The airport at Austin has two parallel concrete runways which run north-to-south: 18L/36R…
On the 11th of January 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the US stopped all departing commercial flights, grounding aircraft all over the US. Hot on the heels of…
I’ve lost most of the day to unexpected research and one of the fascinating items that I discovered was the Air Force Historical Research Agency and their amazing photo collection.…
On the 21st of November 1956, the M-200 Myest (Месть, meaning vengeance or revenge) collided with a Russian destroyer and sunk to the bottom of the Baltic. The M-200 Myest…
I’m in Dresden at the moment and I’m afraid I haven’t had a free moment to write you a new article. Luckily, lots of other people are on the internet…
Long-term readings of Fear of Landing know that my favourite aerobatics show of all time is Kyle Franklin’s Ben Whabnoski Comedy act. Just in case some of you haven’t seen…