On 22 July 2011 an Airbus A340-300 on a scheduled passenger flight from Caracas (Venezuela) to Paris CDG (France) at FL350 in night IMC encountered moderate turbulence which led to an overspeed annunciation which was followed by the aircraft abruptly pitching up and a gain of over 3000 feet in less than a minute before…… Continue Reading →
On 31 January 2011, an Airbus A380-800 on a scheduled passenger service from Hong Kong (ROC) to Singapore and nearing the end of the cruise at night was suddenly subject to a loud noise and signs of possible fire in one of the toilet compartments accompanied by a corresponding ECAM Smoke alert for the same…… Continue Reading →
The aircraft bounced on touchdown due to insufficient landing flare being applied. In an attempt to cushion the second touchdown the co-pilot, who was the handling pilot, over-pitched the aircraft resulting in the tail bumper making contact with the runway surface…. Continue Reading →
The accident occurred in 2005 and involved an ATR 72-200 aircraft, from Bari (Italy) to Djerba(Tunisia). The aircraft had ditched into the sea off the coast of Capo Gallo (Palermo) following the failure of both engines. The aircraft had taken off from Bari at 12.32 UTC with 39 people on board (4 crew members and…… Continue Reading →
The US National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable causes of this accident were the loss of control, attributed to a sudden and unexpected aileron hinge moment reversal that occurred after a ridge of ice accreted beyond the deice boots…. Continue Reading →
The US NTSB determined that the probable cause of this accident was the captain's failure to execute proper techniques to recover from the bounced landings and his subsequent failure to execute a go-around…. Continue Reading →
The captain took control from the first officer after the airplane 'skipped' on touchdown but did not take appropriate recovery action or conduct a go-around, the report said. Injuries and substantial damage resulted when the airplane bounced twice and veered off the runway…. Continue Reading →
n December 21, 2002, an ATR72-200 Freighter encountered a severe icing during its flight and crashed into the sea 17 kilometers southwest of Makung city, Penghu Islands (Taiwan). Both pilots on board were missing…. Continue Reading →
Deficiencies in the performance of the flight crew and the air traffic controller were among the causes cited by the report on the controlled-flight-into-terrain (CFIT) accident. Crew fatigue and an inoperative ground-proximity warning system were factors… Continue Reading →
On 29 March 2006 at about 1 mile from touchdown when in VMC on a night approach to destination Geneva, an ATR 42-300 freighter experienced a sudden electrical fire in the flight deck and an emergency was declared to ATC. Despite this situation the aircraft was able to land normally and vacate the runway via…… Continue Reading →
On 27 January 2009, an ATR 42-300 on a scheduled cargo flight from Fort Worth Alliance (USA) to Lubbock (USA) was making a night ILS approach in IMC to runway 17R at destination when it stalled and crashed short of the runway. The aircraft caught fire and was in any case effectively already destroyed by…… Continue Reading →
The pilot's decision to take-off in known adverse weather conditions and failure to execute the proper windshear recovery procedure resulted in operating the aircraft outside the safe flight regime, causing the aircraft to stall very close to the ground from which recovery was not possible…. Continue Reading →
On 22 March 2007 when limbing out of Stockholm (Sweden), the crew of an Avro RJ100 failed to notice that the aircraft was not pressurized until cabin crew advised them of automatic cabin oxygen mask deployment…. Continue Reading →
During the descent into Edinburgh, smoke began to fill the flight deck. The No. 2 engine was identified as defective and was shut down…. Continue Reading →
Prior to starting the second engine on an aircraft with an unserviceable Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), the engine rpm was not increased on the operating engine, as required. Once the start was initiated, the increased load on the operating generator resulted in the operating engine going into a sub-idle condition. The engine was then over-fuelled…… Continue Reading →