ABC News correspondents, Lisa Stark and Ben Forer, recently published a news report about the Air France flight 447 crash. You can read the article, titled “Air France Flight 447: Black Boxes Indicate Pilot Error Caused Accident” here. The report tries to make the point that pilot error alone...
UPDATE: The BEA has issued a press release stating that the Le Figaro article is too sensationalist and that no conclusions can be drawn from the investigation’s current state. UNCONFIRMED NEWS REPORT Reputed French newspaper, La Figero, has posted an extraordinary report that the French investigation agency BEA has...
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...
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...
Singapore Airlines is currently delaying all of its Airbus A380 operated flights owing to recommended engine checks following today’s incident with a Qantas aircraft. Singapore Airlines A380 due to operate SQ345 ZRH-SIN is currently being delayed for six hours for the engine check conducted at Zurich, and is visible...
Icelandic volcano Eyjaffjallajokul, which disrupted European air traffic between 14 and 21 April has now again started erupting and is causing air travel disruption. Eyjaffjallajokul erupting. Photo © fridgeirsson Recent progression of ash eruption caused a number of Spanish airports to be closed, some of which have now been...
:UPDATING: Last update at 0845UTC 25MAY2011 In May 2011, the Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland erupted and has caused air traffic disruptions around Europe. While air traffic disruptions are expected to be not as severe as the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, the ash cloud from the volcano has already caused some airports...
Current situation of the European Airport closures due to volcanic ash clouds erupting from Eyjaffjoll volcano in Iceland. UK airspace closure was extended till 1800UTC. Apparently the ash cloud which was expected to come back over Northern England at around 1000 returned earlier. This forced Manchester Airport to cancel...