Pilots who understand how to calculate weight and center of gravity will find tools such as an optimized console complement their approach to aviation safety. These small adjustments in organization ...
Nepalese investigators have revealed that the operator of the Bombardier CRJ200 involved in a fatal take-off accident at Kathmandu was not complying with aircraft loading requirements before the crash ...
In Part 1, we discussed how a Beech King Air 200 wound up in the frigid waters of Unalaska Bay, Alaska. It seems likely that the pilot knew the King Air was overweight. When investigators re-created ...
A JetBlue aircraft lost its balance and tipped so far back that its nose lifted up in the air during disembarking at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday night. “Once at the gate, ...
The concrete bed stopped a commercial flight that lost control during landing. The safety system slows a runaway aircraft by ...
WEIGHT WATCHERS Added weight is the scourge of man--and machine. And the FAA last week proposed a regulation aimed at combating its effects on aircraft. The rule announces the establishment of a ...
A single-engine plane that went down near Lansing in 2019, killing five men from Indiana, was operating overweight and out of balance, the National Transportation Safety Board found. The plane, a ...
Innovation rooted in legacy.” The term, provided by Master Sgt. Dez Watson of the 325th Maintenance Group, succinctly sums up ...
The DGCA has reaffirmed that passenger and crew safety remains paramount, and its teams will maintain constant on-ground ...