On 29 October 2018,a Boeing B737-8 MAX was being operated as a scheduled passenger flight from Jakarta when the aircraft disappeared from radar after having informed ATC that they had flight control, altitude and airspeed issues. Shortly after, the aircraft impacted the water killing all persons on board;… Continue Reading →
The Boeing B737 MAX 8 crashed minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethioia, killing all 157 people on board. Coming five months after another fatal crash involving a Boeing 737 MAX 8 passenger jet in Indonesia, Ethiopia’s disaster has sparked a crisis in the international aviation industry…. Continue Reading →
The final investigation report concluded that a fire erupted on or near the pallets containing dangerous goods and rapidly escalated into a large uncontained fire that caused some portions of the fuselage to separate from the aircraft in midair, thereby resulting in the crash…. Continue Reading →
Very serious incident that happened on December 19, 2021 and during which a Boeing B777-300ER failed to climb properly on takeoff from Dubai International Airport (DXB). Immediately after take-off, the aircraft entered a shallow climb, and was at just 175 feet above the ground when passing a residential area beyond the end of the runway…. Continue Reading →
The Boeing 777-300, impacted the runway during an attempted go-around at Dubai Airport (DXB), United Arab Emirates. All 300 on board survived the accident. One fire fighter was killed during the ARFF operations.The aircraft was destroyed…. Continue Reading →
Near CFIT in Africa during weather avoidance with the activation of EGPWS warning. Execution of an emergency maneuver, at night, enroute at FL90… Continue Reading →
During the ILS approach to runway 26L, without external visual references, in manual flight, the PF expressed his surprise about the airplane’s bank angle and flew a missed approach. At this time, the airplane was within 0.2 dots left of the localizer with a bank angle of 6°. The two pilots then simultaneously made inputs…… Continue Reading →
A Boeing 757-200 on a passenger flight from Freetown (Sierra Leone) to London Heathrow (UK) was in the cruise at night in IMC at FL370 when vibration levels on both engines increased. When the prescribed ice shedding drill was followed, one engine malfunctioned and vibration on the other remained abnormally high and so a MAYDAY…… Continue Reading →
On March 5, 2000, Southwest Airlines,flight 1455, a Boeing 737-300 overran the departure end of runway 8 after landing at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, Burbank, California (USA). The airplane touched down at approximately 182 knots, and about 20 seconds later, at approximately 32 knots, collided with a metal blast fence and an airport perimeter wall…. Continue Reading →
On 14 August 2005, a B737-300 aircraft crashed near Grammatiko (Greece ) following the incapacitation of the crew due to hypoxia…. Continue Reading →
Whilst in the cruise the crew began to feel some discomfort in their ears. This was shortly followed by cabin altitude warning horn which indicated that the cabin altitude had exceeded 10,000 feet and this was seen to continue to climb on the cockpit gauge. At the same time, the primary AUTO mode of the…… Continue Reading →
Aircraft was too high during the visual approach. During a right hand orbit manoeuvre asked to the ATC, the aircraft flew low over the Bishopstown area of Cork City (Ireland) on its base leg. As the aircraft turned onto finals the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) Glide Slope CAUTION sounded twice…… Continue Reading →
The crew of a B737-800 did not realise that Runway 06L at Manchester (UK) was operating at reduced length due to work-in-progress at its far end until their aircraft had accelerated to a speed approaching VR…… Continue Reading →
During the takeoff of a scheduled passenger transportation flight from Amsterdam (Netherlands) to Barcelona (Spain), the aircraft suffered a bird strike in the area of the nose landing gear during rotation. The flight crew informed the ATC and the flight continued without any abnormal indication in the cockpit. During the landing roll at Barcelona, when…… Continue Reading →