This Throwback Thursday article on commercial air refuelling service Omega written by Andrew McLaughlin first appeared in the September 2013 magazine edition of Australian Aviation.
A Virgin Australia Boeing 737 suffered a tailstrike on takeoff from Auckland after a reduction in headwind resulted in a drop in airspeed, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation has found.
With divers raising the flight data recorder from the Boeing 737 MAX on Thursday, premature conclusions are already being drawn about the cause of the crash of flight JT610 into the Java Sea shortly after departure from Jakarta this Monday.
A preliminary report by the US National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) into the July 6 2013 Asiana Flight 214 crash at San Francisco Airport has concluded that the flightcrew’s mismanagement of the approach and inadequate monitoring of airspeed were the primary causes of the crash. The Boeing 777-200ER was on final approach to
The US National Transportation Safety Bureau( NTSB) has identified the origin of a fire aboard a JAL 787 at Boston Airport as being the aircraft’s battery. NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman said: “After an exhaustive examination of the JAL lithium-ion battery, which was comprised of eight individual cells, investigators determined that the majority of evidence from
That US National Transportation Safety Board has recommended inspections of all new Boeing 787 and 747-8 General Electric GEnx engines after a trio of recent incidents blamed on cracks in the engine’s turbine midshaft. “We are issuing this recommendation today because of the potential for multiple engine failures on a single aircraft and the urgent
