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Flight
587 Crash Memorial
|
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Nigerian
Authorities Admit to Weak Air Crash Emergency Response
|
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The
Latest Air India Flight 182 Inquiry (Sep 2006)
|
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A
Success Story for AUSSAR
|
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The
Death of Hans Cronje - The Inquest into the Crash at George
|
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2006 Air Crashes Have no Pattern, Just Random Tragic Events? |
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The Transmile 727 Fuel-Tank Explosion in Bangalore |
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Sibir Airlines A310 Crash at Irkutsk - an Early Analysis
|
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10
Years Later - Nothing Yet Done on Fuel-Tank Explosions
|
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Lessons
Learnt - Indepth Review of 12 Major Accidents
|
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Severity
of 767 LAX Engine Explosion Understated
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Engine
Explosion Means Problem Remains Unfixed
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FAA
Mandates New Landing Distance Computations for Contaminated Runways
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A
Valujet Memorial
|
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Collision
Courses in Canadian Airspace
|
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Armenian
A320 Cockpit Voice Recorder Recovered
|
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West
Caribbean MD82 Crash Cause (Flight 708)
|
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InfraRed
De-Icing Saves Groundwater
|
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Pilot
Job Exports and their Safety Concerns
|
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Aerial
Death of Famed Aviator Scott Crossfield
|
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Making
Midway Safer
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The
Crash Atop Fortress Masada
|
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Airbus
A380 Evacuation Test Successful- Only 33 Injured
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A
New Anti-Ice/De-ice Methodology?
|
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Lightning
Strikes and Composite Aircraft
|
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Taxiway
Landing TAP A340 Guarulhos (Sao Paulo) Brazil
|
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Alaskan
Investigates a Welter of Pressurization Failures
|
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The
Birdstrikes of Brazil
|
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NASA/FAA
to Archive Airlines' Safety Data
|
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NTSB
Attends Fewer Accidents - Stretched too Thin
|
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Report
Criticizes US Airline Maintenance Oversight
|
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The
Perils of African Aviation - the Saga of Hydro 501
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Congressman
Continues Fight Against MU-2 In Wake Of Canadian Accident
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Staying
Alive in Low Impact Airliner Accidents is Easier
|
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Realtime
Runway Incursion Responses
|
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A
New Laser Based Anti-ice/De-icing Technology
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Mallard
Turboprop Amphibian Break-up
|
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More
Insights into the Midway 737 Accident
|
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Same
date 33 Years ago at Chicago's Midway Airport
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USN
Rewires the Kapton-Ridden C2 Greyhound COD Aircraft
|
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Still
no Bottom line on Ebersol Icing Crash at Montrose
|
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An
FAA Safety Report Card
Marion Blakey's Response |
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The
Latest Flight Data Monitoring Tool
|
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Decision
time on Tank Inerting has Arrived
|
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Air
Ambulance Crash Caused by Icing Build-up
|
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Bizjets
and VL Jets can be Risky Business
|
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Deadly
Fuel Systems in Light Aircraft
|
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Runway
Incursion Prevention for GA
|
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Infra-red
De-Icing - A First
|
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Those
Deadly Medium Twins
|
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World's
Deadlies Air Disasters
|
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When
Flight Attendants Fall - Pt 1 (and Part
2)
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The
Cessna Caravan and its Icing Problems
|
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The
Safety Managers Squabble over the Swissair Report Recs
|
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Mitsubishi
Cooperates with FAA Re-Examination of MU-2
|
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An
Important Original IASA Safety Concept Enters Airline Service
|
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The
Helios Crash - Flawed Responses and Lack of Urgency
|
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AF358
(A340 Overrun Toronto) Crash Cause Bottom Lines
|
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Airline
Choice and Airline Safety Inextricably Linked
|
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Airline
Death Toll Soars for 2005 (versus 2004)
|
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NATA
wants to defer their Blanket Fix
|
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EU
Nations Publish Their Lists of Blacklisted Airlines
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FAA
Safety Inspections Now 25% Behind
|
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Helios
Flt 522 737 Crash Explanation
- a Clarification
|
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The Story of the Alaska
506 Boeing 737's Depressurization
|
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Helios 737-300 Crash
Perplexes Experts
|
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AirFrance
Flt 358's 2001 Predecessor Accident
|
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Japanese
Remember on Anniversary of Worst Ever Crash - JAL 123
|
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Pilots
at Higher Risk of Cancer and Cataracts
|
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Safer
Wet Runway Operations
|
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The
Go-Round Prompter (IMPETUS)
|
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The
Truths that Emerge - Post Facto
|
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Tunisian
ATR72 Crashes
|
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The
Shuttle - What Debris Impact Can it Take?
|
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The
NTSB is in Turmoil
|
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Shuttle
again Grounded after Foam Departs External Tank on Launch
|
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Are the Planes We Fly in Now More at Risk? |
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NTSB
highlights nil FAA Progress on TWA800 Explosion Issues
|
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Dallas
Fort Worth ATC Mistakes Routinely Covered Up
|
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IASA's
Iridian/Roadshow Concept Comes to Life
|
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High
Tech Safety for General Aviation is in Prospect
|
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The
Technical Issues Behind the Pinnacle CRJ-2 Crash at Jefferson City
|
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Tech
Gains that have Eliminated the Newer Generation Airliner Crashes
|
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The
Teterboro Accident Scorecard
|
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DOT
OIG Report on FAA Oversight of Airlines
|
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Teterboro
N.J. - A Bad Place for Accidents
|
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Metro
Airport Fire-Fighters
|
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Weighing
Errors can Kill
|
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Another
Mitsubishi MU-2 Fatal Accident
|
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The
Leaking of Internal Airline Safety Bulletins
|
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Crash
Airline Audited Two Months before Fatal Crash
|
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Forgetting
Precedents - a BIG Mistake
|
|
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Are
Airlines Outsourcing Safety?
|
|
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Experts
want a Volcano Alerting System
|
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Tombstone
Technologies
|
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The
Birdstrike and Bird-Control Menu
|
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Crashed
P3 Air-Tanker had no Recorders
|
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Shortage
of Fire-Tankers for 2005 Season due to Safety Concerns
|
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FAA
Delays Rule on Aircraft Repair Station Mandatory Training
|
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The
Facts Behind the Phuket Air Abortive 747 Flights
|
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Pennsylvania
Icing Crash of PC-12 kills Family of Six
|
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2004
Civil Aviation Accident Fatalities Fall
|
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Mishaps
spur safety inspections of airlines, starting with JAL
|
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FAA Enforcement Proceedings against AMFA Members - Guidance
|
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The
FAA is not Wholly INERT on OBIGGS
|
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New
FDR & CVR Rules (NTSB Aproves FAA Plan - but no Cameras)
|
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New
FDR & CVR Rules (FAA Release)
|
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Cause
Sought for Big Increase in Medevac Helo Accidents
|
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The
Causes and the Circumstances for American 587 in Queens
|
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Another "Early" Inventor of the Flight Data Recorder
|
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The
Inventor of the Flight Data Recorder
|
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The
Fall Guy
|
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The
Airliner that Ran Outa Gas
|
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34
Airline Deaths over 3 Years - Is it Safe?
|
|
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The
2004 Airline Safety Record
|
|
|
The
NTSB on Pre-Take-Off Icing Risks
|
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The
African Airliner Crash Record
|
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|
The
Cessna Grand Caravan's Icing Accident Record (more)
|
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|
The
FAA's One-Way Trip Ticket
|
|
|
Ex
NTSB Chairman Jim Hall Says (about Recent Terrain Avoidance Accidents)
|
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FAA
Orders Inspection of all T34/A45 Wings for Mainspar cracks
|
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A
Defence of that Lethal MU-2
|
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A
BizJet's Down
|
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|
Fuel
Me Once - The Case of the Pliant (yet non-compliant) Dip-Stick
|
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The
Dick Ebersol Challenger Crash (link
to More on background)
|
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The
World's Worst AirCrashes
|
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The
Nairobi 747 Crash - A Tale of Family Escape
|
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Take-off
Performance Monitoring Systems
|
|
|
A
Beech 1900D Ditching (Where Everybody Lives after a double engine
failure)
|
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Near
Collision of two 777's over London
|
|
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They
Died at the End of A Long Duty Day - of Six Sectors (15hrs)
|
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Halifax
Crash 747's recovered CVR "of no use"
|
|
|
Report
Out on the Air Transat Azores Deadstick Landing
|
|
|
The
10th
Anniversary of the USAIR Flight 427 Crash
|
|
|
The
Britannia
757 Crash at Gerona (the FINAL REPORT)
|
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The
Britannia
757 Crash at Gerona (5 years to a Final Report)
|
|
|
The
Africa Tally - of Transport Aviation Accidents
|
|
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Bad
Day in OSLO
|
|
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The
Fatal Crash of Air Tahoma's CV580
|
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The
Curse of the Nomad - a True Widow-Maker
|
|
|
Four
Years Later the NTSB Renews its Call for Cockpit Cameras
|
|
|
GAO
Slams Poor FAA Safety Databases
|
|
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My
Captain, My Bossman
|
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FAA
Safety Laxity Criticized by US Congress' General Accountability Office
|
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|
NASA
has Another Close Call (Maintenance Deficiencies Found)
|
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No
More TCAS Induced Collisions? Yes or No?
|
|
|
Airbus
Sacks a WhistleBlower for Raising Safety Concerns
|
|
|
Losing
all Four Engines in Volcanic Ash (pdf)
|
|
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A
Viable Alternative to Fuel-Tank Inerting?
|
|
|
NTSB
Finds A300-600 Rudder Flaw
|
|
|
FAA
works out the Safety for Unmanned Flight in Civil Airspace
|
|
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Adding
Up the Airproxes
|
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NASA's
Post-Columbia Safety Plot
|
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|
The
Engineers are Revolting
|
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Swiss
Air Controllers Admit Errors in Midair Collision
|
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Fire-Fighting
Aviation - To be Run on the Cheap no longer
|
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Fire-Fighting
Tankers Grounded as Fire Season Begins
|
|
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The
Ansett Crack-up (six pages)
|
|
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The
Value of a Pilot's Nap
|
|
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Retiring NTSB's John Goglia Receives Air Safety Accolade
|
|
|
A
Legacy of Airmanship and Experience
|
|
|
NTSB
Board Running Out Of AirCrash Investigator Expertise
|
|
|
Bad
Maintenance Can Affect More Than Just the One Jet
|
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Airbus
on the Safety Risks of 207 Minute ETOPS
|
|
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Sharjah
Kish Airlines Crash a Replay of Luxair F50 Crash
|
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Fuel
Tanks Finally To Be Inerted - 7 Years Hence
|
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Taxiing
- the Final Challenge
|
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IATA
to Set up African Air Safety Body
|
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Midair
Collision Crash report blames SkyGuide, the Controller and Russian pilots
|
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The
Aviation Safety Situation in Alaska
|
|
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NTSB Says AA587 Jet Type may contain Design Flaw |
|
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AIr
Malta A320 Ground Tower Collision Down to Negligence
|
|
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Another
Auckland Tail-strike
|
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Another
Egyptian Charter Airline Fire Scare
|
|
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After
Sharm el-Sheikh, Charter Flight Safety's Under the Microscope
|
|
|
NASA
Struggles to Regain Safety Momentum
|
|
|
Was
it the Missing 727 that Crashed at Benin?
|
|
|
The
Inbuilt Perils of RVSM
|
|
|
A
Scathing Condemnation of NASA's Space Shuttle
|
|
|
How
far has maintenance come?
|
|
|
FEDEX
and Pilot Fatigue
|
|
|
The
Trouble with Cockpit Doors
|
|
|
GAO
Reports on FAA Probity (a
Collation)
|
|
|
Beech
1900D Changes Forced after Second Accident
|
|
|
FAA
Continued To Ignore Congressional Air Safety Concerns
|
|
|
The
NTSB's Most Wanted Aviation Safety Improvements (Recorders)
|
|
|
Latest
CVR Developments
|
|
|
The Origins of the Sacrificial Glove Concept |
|
|
Shuttle
Cause and Effect Imagery
|
|
|
Do
the CAIB's Recommendations Address both Cause and Effect
|
|
|
UK
Govt Responses to Parliamentary Inquiry on Aviation Safety
|
|
|
The
Safety and Security Case for Closed Circuit TV on Airliners (Menu)
|
|
|
The
IASA Idea that Flew
|
|
|
The
Proposed Shuttle Columbia Fix
|
|
|
Cause
and Circumstance - Think Like an Air Safety Investigator
|
|
|
A
Warning to Travelers - on Hotel Fires
|
|
|
FAA
Reports Runway Incursion Numbers Down - A False Dawn?
|
|
|
FAA
Urged to Ratchet Up Maintenance Oversight
|
|
|
Charlotte
Beech 1900D Accident - Wrong Weight or Wrong Rigging?
|
|
|
An
Icelandair 757-200 Close Call
|
|
|
An
Air Safety Retrospective
|
|
|
Don't
Shoot the Messenger - a NASA Lesson Learnt
|
|
|
The Flames were 20cms High - and then the Windscreen Exploded
|
|
|
1200Meters
Required / 700Meters Available
|
|
|
MD-11
Overrruns on Arrival JFK
|
|
|
When
the Airplane Forgets How to Flare
|
|
|
More
on the YAK42D Crash in Turkey
|
|
|
The
YAK42D Crash in Turkey (26 May 03)
|
|
|
Senator
Wellstone Crash - NTSB gives Factuals
|
|
|
NTSB
gives Factuals on Air MidWestern Beech 1900D Crash in Charlotte
|
|
|
A
Weighty Problem - Pax are Off-Scale Heavy
|
|
|
School
for Tinkickers
|
|
|
Bureaucratic
Inaction Behind the Luxembourg Fokker 50 Crash
|
|
|
Makeshift
Shuttle Alert System Failed
|
|
|
How
the Black Boxes Work
Part Two |
|
|
Nasty
Singapore Airlines 747-400 Tailscrape Photos
|
|
|
US
Attorney Re-Opens Alaska 261 Criminal Investigation
|
|
|
NASA
Pondering Five Changes to the Shuttle
|
|
|
NASA
Agrees on Leading Edge Event for Columbia's Hot Air Leak
|
|
|
Two
Severely Stuck Aviation Behemoths
|
|
|
Shuttle
Investigators Closing In
|
|
|
NASA
Knew, They Worried, They Did Nothing
|
|
|
Intimidation
in Aviation
|
|
|
Shuttle
Contractors under Scrutiny
|
|
|
So
Was It the RCC Leading Edge?
The Graphics |
|
|
The
Columbia precrash NASA Memo
|
|
|
Earlier Tank-Foam Related Tile Failures Brought Warning Memo from NASA
Engineer in 1997
|
|
|
A
Failure of Design and Certification Testing (of 34 years ago)
|
|
|
The
Failure of ATOS (the Air Transportation Oversight System)
|
|
|
Found
After Two Days - Peruvian F-28 Crash-Site
|
|
|
Turkish
Pilots were Flying Blind Below Minimum Descent Altitude
|
|
|
Weight
and Balance of Charlotte Beech 1990D an Issue
|
|
|
Turkish
RJ-100 Crash Imagery
|
|
|
Turkish
RJ-100 Crash kills 75
|
|
|
The
Melilla Crash - A Spanish Fokker 50 of Nostrum Air
|
|
|
The
Air Transat A330 Fue Loss Story Reviewed
|
|
|
Namibian Mid-Air (737 versus Cessna 404)
|
|
|
A
Policy Change on ETOPS
|
|
|
The
CROW HAMMER Wake Turbulence Effect
|
|
|
Another
Uncommanded Yaw for the A300-600 (Flt AA068 on 03 Dec 02)
|
|
|
The
FAA's Story on their Role in Alaska 261
|
|
|
The
NTSB Findings on Alaska 261 (and the FAA Denial)
|
|
|
The
Failsafe Jackscrew - Air Safety Week (pdf file of 650kb)
|
|
|
The
Failsafe Jackscrew - Air Safety Week (AMFA and ALPA opinions on AK261)
|
|
|
The
Failsafe Jackscrew - How it Could Have Prevented AK261
|
|
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The
Failsafe Jackscrew- Safety Through Redundancy
|
|
|
The
FAA/NTSB Study on Certification Woes
|
|
|
FAA
being Sued by Emery DC-8 Crash Victim's Family
|
|
|
The
Other Side of the Floating Boeing Story
|
|
|
The
Strange Case of the Floating Boeing
|
|
|
The
Manila Bay F-27 Crash
|
|
|
Hard Lessons in Airliner Maintenance
|
|
|
Alaskan
261 Jackscrew Maint and Design at Fault - NTSB
|
|
|
Fokker
F50 Crash Luxembourg - Tracking Down a Cause
|
|
|
NTSB
Grapples with Flight AA587 Probe
|
|
|
A
Perilous Parallel to AA587
|
|
|
The
AA587 Hearings Begin- Composites not Guilty
|
|
|
Some
AA587 Skullduggery - the A300-600 DFDR's Deficiencies were approved
|
|
|
AA587
Fin Loss - The Rudder Can Do it
|
|
|
The
Epileptic Polka - AA587 Accident Theory (cont'd)
|
|
|
More
AA587 Accident Theory
|
|
|
A Story of Flawed Maintenance
|
|
|
Determinations
on the German Midair
|
|
|
Relevant
to AA587? Boeing Limits Liability
Page Two |
|
|
Russian
Midair Pilots Confused by Swiss ATC
|
|
|
IFSD
- Not an Open and Shut Case
|
|
|
The
China Airlines 747 Breakup - and The Fluid Hammer of Aloha
|
|
|
Maintenance
Error - How Large Does it Loom?
|
|
|
So
When is a Fire Really a Fire - The BA 747 Cargo Hold Fire ex Sydney
|
|
|
China
Airlines 747 CVR says very little about its Breakup
|
|
|
A
Credible China Airlines 747 Breakup Theory (Four
Pages)
|
|
|
CVR
TRanscript of "Midair over Germany" Crash
|
|
|
Moscow
IL-86 Crash
|
|
|
Singapore
Airlines suspends the Pilots after another Taipei Hit
|
|
|
Throwaway
Planes and Throwaway Pilots - The C130-A Tanker Crash (4
pages)
|
|
|
ATC
partly to blame for SAS MD-87 Crash in Linate Italy
|
|
|
SQ006
Pilots Fired
|
|
|
Fatigue
Cracks Found in Taiwanese 747 Wreckage
|
|
|
Why
Ruin a Good Aviation Story with Facts?
|
|
|
Towards
the "More Electric" Aircraft
|
|
|
Midair
over Germany
|
|
|
A
CI-611 China Airlines 747 Crash - Not the Cargo Door
|
|
|
A
CI-611 China Airlines 747 Crash-Cause Opinion
|
|
|
The
Air Transat Double Flame-out Report
|
|
|
An
Attempt to Emulate the SQ006 Closed Runway Disaster - UPS896
|
|
|
The
NTSB Report on UPS896 (Closed Runway Take-off at Denver 25 Sep 01 (download
Word Doc)
|
|
|
A
TWA800 Repeat?
|
|
|
Pilots
Still Feel Pushed
|
|
|
ICAO
Chapter 13 - on Accident Investigation
|
|
|
AK261
had no grease on its Jackscrew
 Jackscrew
History Jackscrew
Problems |
|
|
Singapore
Airline's 747 Crash Report (two almost opposing views)
|
|
|
The
Hearings on FAA Oversight (from the AMFA Perspective)
|
|
|
The
Emery DC-8 Accident Hearing is to be Public
|
|
|
FAA
Airline Oversight Worse than Before => say their own Inspectors
|
|
|
Accidental
Aftermath - "While the Dust Settles"
|
|
|
Crash
Probe Triggers Rudder Design Scrutiny
|
|
|
American
Harassing A300-600 Pilots over Public Grounding Demand
|
|
|
ETOPS
for the Boeing 777
|
|
|
Air
Passenger Death Statistics
|
|
|
Foolish
Runway Stopping Philosophies
|
|
|
Boeing 737 Rudder Lawsuits
|
|
|
FAA
orders inspections on 737 center fuel tanks
|
|
|
Loss
of Control in Large Airplanes
|
|
|
Boeing
appeals crash ruling
|
|
|
Airbus
in fear of full emergency test
|
|
|
Air
transportation - aircraft safety
|
|
|
Airlines
Bolster Fire Safety On Old
|
|
|
The
Alaska Airlines crash: signs point to a wider crisis in air safety
|
|
|
Sampling
of Alaska Flt 261 Accident Observations and Recommendations from the
Enders and Hendricks
|
|
|
Alaska's
World Features
|
|
|
CASA
Air Safety Recommendation Nos
|
|
|
MD-80
JackScrews and Suchlike
|
|
|
ACCIDENT
OF AN IBERIA AIRBUS A320 IN BILBAO
|
|
|
The
TWA800 Precursor Report that Boeing forgot to mention
|
|
|
Uncontained
Disc Failures
|
|
|
Outward-Opening
(non-plug) Cargo Doors
|
|
|
Uncommanded
747 Cargo Door Opening
|
|
|
Code-Share
Dilemmas
|
|
|
Record
compensation for relatives of Concorde dead
|
|
|
Concorde:
For the Want of a Spacer
|
|
|
The
crash of a Korean Air jumbo jet that killed 228 people
|
|
|
NASA
calls the failures in computers that are critical for flight a "Digital
Upset"
|
|
|
Dreadle
- A Runway Incursion Solution
|
|
|
Dreadle
3 - A Runway Incursion Solution
|
|
|
PREPAREDNESS
FOR EMERGENCY EVACUATIONS LACKING
|
|
|
EPILOGUE
for BOTH
|
|
|
"I
do want to ask you if the EVAS would have helped Urs Zimmermann?"
|
|
|
Dangerous
levels of pilot fatigue developing
|
|
|
FBI
talking to Alaska workers here
|
|
|
Fly
Faster to Avoid Accidents
|
|
|
French
Concorde's still grounded
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Fueled
again - the Gimli Glider
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GulfAir
072 - the Pitch-Up Illusion
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Seven
dead in KAL MD-11 Crash
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Laptop
Electrical Safety (Airborne)
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LESSONS
FROM ALOHA
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Fire
Drill Delayed Inspection Of Concorde Runway
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NASA-FAA
Industry Roundtable
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FAA
to issue strict fuel-tank safety rules
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Osprey
General - a Menu of Mismanagement
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Some Opinions - as highlit |
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AVweb:
Rain In The Desert
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FAA
Mandates 737 Rudder Change
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Stay
of Execution
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Personal
Respiratory Protective Devices (Smoke Hoods)
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CONCORDE
SST : Accident Report
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An ALPA
Statement on Egyptair 990
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Popularity
of ultralong flights raises new safety concerns
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VIOLENT
VIBES (flutter phenomenon in structural composites]
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Air
Crashes of note
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Valujet
592 Trials
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AK261
Crash - Indicative of a Wider Problem
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A Comparative
Measure of Aviation Safety
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