On 2 October 1996, a Boeing 757-200 on a scheduled passenger flight at night from Lima (Peru) to Santiago (Chile) experienced control difficulties because of incorrect flight instrument readings. A return to Lima was attempted but when control was lost the aircraft impacted the sea and all 70 occupants were killed…. Continue Reading →
On May 16, 2010, the flight crew of a Boeing 757-200 declared an emergency because of a fire in the cockpit and diverted to Washington Dulles International Airport (USA)… Continue Reading →
The incident to the Boeing 757 aircraft occurred on the first flight following a 26-day major maintenance check. Shortly after takeoff on a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow (UK) to Paris (France), a hot oil smell, that had been present in the cockpit on engine startup, returned. The flight crew donned oxygen masks and…… Continue Reading →
On a scheduled passenger flight from Seattle/Tacoma (USA) to New York JFK (USA), the crew of a Boeing 757 lost significant electrical systems functionality en route. A diversion with an emergency declared was made to Chicago O’Hare (USA) where after making a visual daylight approach, the aircraft was intentionally steered off the landing runway when…… Continue Reading →
On 29 December 2010 a Boeing 757-200 on a scheduled passenger flight from Chicago O’Hare (USA) to Jackson Hole (USA) failed to stop before the end of landing runway 19 at destination after a daylight landing in normal ground visibility with light snow falling and finally stopped in deep snow 220 metres beyond it. The…… Continue Reading →
The aircraft was taking off from Runway 23 for a short night flight to Liege, Belgium; the First Officer was the handling pilot. The takeoff was uneventful until, at about 5-10 kt below V1, the captain thought he might have seen some smoke in the cockpit. At this time the first officer was unable to…… Continue Reading →
The Boeing 767-300 aircraft was on a scheduled flight from Vancouver (Canada), to Toronto (Canada). While on final approach, approximately 10 miles from the airport, the flight crew received an aft cargo bay fire warning. The flight crew followed emergency checklist procedures, activated the cargo bay fire extinguishers, and declared an emergency. The fire warning…… Continue Reading →
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 →