The BEA has confirmed that they have been able to retrieve the data from Air France flight 447‘s recorders. The French investigators confirmed that the recorders contained readable data, and that they had retrieved “all of the data” from the flight data recorder and “whole recording” of the last...
Some spectacular images have now emerged, of the recent Tu-154 in-flight oscillation incident. The photos could be seen here. The aircraft, RA-85563 had been conducting its maiden flight following a long term storage when it incurred an aileron feedback issue. The aircraft reportedly kept correcting the actually...
The BEA investigators have recovered the Cockpit-Voice Recorder of the Air France flight 447 which crashed in the Atlantic ocean on 1st June 2009. ( All photos courtesy of BEA ) The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) has been localized at 21h50 UTC on Monday 2...
The May Day of year 2011 – turned out to be a day of significant importance to aviation. In the true aviation fashion, two events where pilots said “Mayday” were solved on the very day. 1. AF447 FDR memory unit retrieved The missing memory unit of the Air...
A China Cargo Airlines Boeing 777-200LRFreighter, registration B-2078, operating as flight CK237 from Beijing to Copenhagen incurred a tail-strike during landing. Copyrighted photo. Author Jean-Pierre Gammelgaard. The crew decided to make a go-around and safely landed about 15 mins later. The incident occurred at 1457L on 17th Apr at...
AIRLINEINDUSTRYREVIEW.COM – The French BEA has reported that it has been able to locate previously not-found wreckage of Air France Flight 447 with its fourth search attempt which was launched in March 2011. The investigators have verified the wreckage as belonging to AF447 ( operated by Airbus A330-200 F-GZCP...
Southwest Airlines ( IATA : WN ) has decided to ground 81 Boeing 737 aircraft after one of its Boeing 737-300s had a loss of pressurization after a rupturing of fuselage of aircraft’s top. Flight 812, a scheduled flight operating from Phoenix to Sacramento diverted to Yuma, Arizona after...
The Tu-154 belonging to Alrosa which crash landed to an abandoned airfield last September, took off from it yesterday. Photo courtesy bnkomi.ru The incident occured on 7th September, when the Alrosa Minry Air Tupolev TU-154M, bearing reg RA-85684, was operating flight 6R 514 from Polyarny to Moscow Domodedovo. While...
O=Open C=Closed. Last update 1330UTC 11MAR. Please double check with official sources. Most closed runways are being reconstructed around the clock. Airport Open Closed Remarks Tokyo Narita, NRT C Fully closed. Next review unknown. Tokyo Haneda, HND O Rwy 16L/34R closed Honolulu, HNL O Airport in...
Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jeleil told the Swedish newspaper Expressen a short while ago that Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi was the person who ordered the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people. The bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747-100 (N739PA) named Clipper Maid of...