Insufficient lubrication led to excessive wear and to failure of the jackscrew assembly in the McDonnell Douglas MD-83’s horizontal-stabilizer-trim system. The failure caused the horizontal stabilizer to jam in a position beyond normal limits and the aircraft to enter a nose-down pitch attitude from which recovery was not possible…. Continue Reading →
Runway visual range was about 200 meters/700 feet when the crew of a Cessna Citation CJ2 taxied on the wrong taxiway and into the path of a Boeing MD-87 that was taking off on the active runway at Milan, Italy…. Continue Reading →
Passengers were commanded to remove their shoes before evacuating the aircraft, which slowed the evacuation and could have caused injuries or loss of life in a fire or other critical situation, the official U.S. accident investigation report said…. Continue Reading →
On August 24 1999, an MD-90 had just landed and was rolling on Runway when a explosion was heard in the front section of the passenger cabin, followed by smoke and then fire…… Continue Reading →
This NTSB report explains the accident involving Federal Express flight 1406, a Douglas DC-10-10, which made an emergency landing at Stewart International Airport on September 5, 1996, after the flightcrew determined that there was smoke in the cabin cargo compartment…. Continue Reading →
On 21 October 2004 the DC-9-83 was scheduled on a charter flight from Zurich (Switzerland) to Pristina (Kosovo). The first approach was performed on runway 35 at Pristina. A go around was performed under demanding weather conditions because the aircraft could not be stabilized in short final. On this occasion the left wing made contact…… Continue Reading →
On July 31, 1997, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11,operated by Federal Express, Inc., crashed while landing on runway 22R at Newark International Airport, USA. The regularly scheduled cargo flight originated in Singapore on July 30 with intermediate stops in Penang, Malaysia; Taipei, Taiwan; and Anchorage, Alaska. On board were the captain and first officer, who had…… Continue Reading →
On landing, the aircraft bounced a number of times and the ground spoilers did not deploy. While the pilot applied maximum thrust reverse and maximum manual braking, complete deceleration was not achieved in sufficient time to stop the aircraft departing the end of RWY 24 and rolling some 230 ft into the grass over-run area…. Continue Reading →
The US NTSB determined that the probable causes of the accident were a fire of undetermined origin, an underestimate of fire severity, and misleading fire progress information provided to the captain. The time taken to evaluate the nature of the fire and to decide to initiate an emergency descent contributed to the severity of the…… Continue Reading →
The MD 83 was cleared to take off. The Shorts 330 registered G-SSWN was then cleared to line up and to wait as « number two ». The controller believed that the two aircraft were at the threshold of the runway, whereas the Shorts had been cleared to use an intermediate taxiway. The Shorts entered the runway…… Continue Reading →