The airplane was high on approach to Patna, India, and the crew received clearance from air traffic control to conduct a 360-degree turn to reposition for landing. The airplane stalled and descended into a residential area. Fifty-five occupants of the airplane and five people on the ground were killed in the approach-and-landing accident…. Continue Reading →
Air traffic control instructions caused the Boeing 737 to be high, fast and close to the runway when the crew conducted a turn to establish the airplane on final approach to Burbank, California, U.S. Investigators concluded that the flight crew’s only safe option at the time was a go-around…. Continue Reading →
All 132 occupants were killed when the airplane struck terrain near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. The investigation report said that, following an encounter with wake turbulence, the airplane’s rudder moved to the limit of its travel, in a direction opposite to that commanded by the flight crew. The report said that the rudder-control anomaly most likely…… Continue Reading →
Fluid leaking from the cabin onto the yaw-damper coupler in the electronic-and-equipment bay affected electronic signals transmitted to the yaw-damper actuator and caused a dutch-roll oscillation…. Continue Reading →
Safety recommendations of the Aviation Safety Council of Taiwan, based on the Singapore Airlines Flight SQ006 accident, discuss the adequacy of some international standards for runway/taxiway signs, marking and lighting. The Boeing 747 struck concrete barriers, runway-construction pits and construction equipment during takeoff in heavy rain, strong winds and low visibility…. Continue Reading →
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the Korean Air flight 801 accident was the captain's failure to adequately brief and execute the nonprecision approach and the first officer's and flight engineer's failure to effectively monitor and cross-check the captain's execution of the approach. Contributing to these failures were the captain's…… Continue Reading →
On September 5, 2000, a Boeing B747-300 departed from Jakarta, Indonesia and experienced a serious incident shortly after take-off in which the No 1 engine’s fifth low pressure turbine (LPT) disk failed, ejecting debris damaging the airframe structure and several houses in a village…. Continue Reading →
During an instrument departure from London, England, the captain and the first officer received warnings about roll indications from the attitude-comparator system and from the flight engineer. The airplane was in a left turn, banked nearly 90 degrees, when it descended and struck the ground… Continue Reading →
Investigators concluded that a flammable mixture of fuel and air in the center-wing fuel tank likely was ignited by voltage from an external short circuit that was conducted into the tank by electrical wiring associated with the fuel quantity indication system…. Continue Reading →
Investigators said that published procedures were not followed when the repair was performed more than 20 years before a structural failure occurred and the aircraft broke apart during flight…. Continue Reading →
On May 25 2002, a Boeing 747-200 crashed into the Taiwan Strait approximately 23 NM NE of Makung, Penghu Islands of Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC). Radar data indicated that the aircraft experienced an in-flight breakup at an altitude of 34,900 feet, before reached its cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The aircraft was on a…… Continue Reading →
The airline's flight attendant procedures did not provide adequate guidance to flight attendants on how to coordinate their actions during and after the impact sequence, the official U.S. report said…. Continue Reading →
The Boeing 747 was configured for a dry-runway landing when heavy rain occurred on final approach to Bangkok, Thailand. The captain told the first officer (the pilot flying) to go around but then retarded the throttle levers when the main landing gear touched the runway. The airplane was substantially damaged. None of the occupants was…… Continue Reading →
Investigators concluded that the airplane had a blocked pitot tube and that, during departure, the flight crew became confused by false indications of increasing airspeed and did not respond to a stall warning. All the occupants were killed when the airplane struck the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of the Dominican Republic…. Continue Reading →
Crew fails to compute crosswind component, Boeing 757 nosewheel collapses on landing… Continue Reading →