On 2 January 2005, a Boeing 767-300 on a scheduled passenger flight in day VMC from Toronto (Canada) to Santiago (Chile) was approximately 180 nm north of the intended destination and in the cruise at FL370 when it suffered a run down of the left engine which flight deck indications suggested was due to fuel…… Continue Reading →
On 19 June 2009 a Boeing 767-300 on a scheduled passenger flight from Chicago O’Hare (USA) to Warsaw (Poland) was in the cruise at FL330 in night IMC when one of the air speed indicators suddenly displayed a false high reading, which triggered an over speed warning,and one of the altimeters recorded a simultaneous sudden…… Continue Reading →
On 26 May 1991, a Boeing 767-300 being operated by Austrian carrier Lauda Air on a scheduled passenger service from Hong Kong to Vienna via Bangkok was climbing in night VMC when it went out of control and crashed fifteen minutes after departure from Bangkok about 100 nm northwest of the airport. The aircraft was…… Continue Reading →
On 13 December 2008, a Boeing 767-300 departing from Manchester (UK) for Montego Bay (Jamaica) was considered to be accelerating at an abnormally slow rate during the take off roll on Runway 23L. The aircraft commander, who was the pilot not flying, consequently delayed the V1 call by about 10 – 15 kts because he…… Continue Reading →
On 29 July 2011, a Boeing 777-200 was parked on the departure gate whilst awaiting the last few passengers and completion of hold loading when a fire suddenly began at the lower right hand side of the flight deck. Despite prompt attempts to extinguish the fire, it continued to burn out of control causing major…… Continue Reading →
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crew’s mismanagement of the airplane’s descent during the visual approach, the PF’s unintended deactivation of automatic airspeed control, the flight crew’s inadequate monitoring of airspeed, and the flight crew’s delayed execution of a go-around after they became aware…… Continue Reading →
The Boeing 777 crash landed just short of the runway at its destination.There were no fatalities but 47 people sustained injuries; one serious. Ice crystals in the fuel were blamed as the cause of the accident, clogging the fuel-oil heat exchanger (FOHE) of each engine. This restricted fuel flow to the engines when thrust was…… Continue Reading →
On 1 March 2005, a Boeing 777-200 being on a scheduled passenger flight from Lahore to Manchester experienced a landing gear fire during taxi in at destination after an apparently routine landing in normal day visibility. There were no flight deck indications of a significant fire but an emergency evacuation was recommended by attending Fire…… Continue Reading →
On 26 September 2009, a Boeing 777-200 on a scheduled day passenger flight from St Kitts to Antigua unintentionally began and completed take off from a different intermediate position on the departure runway than the one intended in normal ground visibility and just succeeded in becoming airborne before the end of the paved surface was…… Continue Reading →
On 5 September 2001, a Boeing 777-200 on the ground at Denver, Colorado, was substantially damaged, and a refuelling operative killed, when a fire broke out following the failure of a refuelling coupling under pressure because of improper attachment…. Continue Reading →
On 7 January 2013, an electrical burning smell and smoke was reported from the aft passenger cabin of a Boeing 787-8 which had just arrived at Boston from Tokyo Narita on a scheduled passenger flight. It was found that the source of the smoke was the Lithium-Ion APU battery located in the aft electrical equipment…… Continue Reading →