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The Nepal authorities have released information from the crashed aircraft’s flight data recorder (FDR) which shows that both propellers feathered – and the engines stopped delivering po…| Learmount.com
The Nepal authorities have released information from the crashed aircraft’s flight data recorder (FDR) which shows that both propellers feathered – and the engines stopped delivering po…| Learmount.com
The movement of two small switches on the aft end of the flight deck centre console, reachable easily by both pilots, appears to hold the key to what happened to the Air India Boeing 787-8 that cra…| Learmount.com
Learmount.com’s series on awful airline experiences today looks at a European carrier’s attempt to persuade booked passengers that their trips will not be as bad as the online reviews. Holidaying passengers flying Vueling are promised that they can start winding down – or up – as soon as they’re airborne. Here’s the just-announced pan-Europe mix … Continue reading “Instagrammable cocktails” solution to bad Vueling pax reviews| Learmount.com
Air India flight 171 crashed immediately after take-off from Ahmedabad on 12 June, and today, two weeks later, with no news about causes, the system is beginning to leak. This is what happens natur…| Learmount.com
India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued orders for “enhanced checks” to be carried out on Boeing 787s powered by GEnx turbofans registered in the country. Those looking for clues as to the causes the authorities believe might be behind the disastrous Air India 787 crash at Ahmedabad on 12 June are likely … Continue reading Enhanced checks for GEnx-powered Indian 787s| Learmount.com
Boeing’s long-range widebody 787 has been in service since 2013, and had some worrying technical problems in early service. Those, however, were corrected and it had been crash-free until now…| Learmount.com
An official incident report has confirmed that a Lufthansa Airbus A321 flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Seville, Spain on 17 February last year flew for 10min without any pilot supervision because…| Learmount.com
“The ancient infrastructure is buckling,” says the President of the USA, Donald J Trump. His subject is the state of America’s air traffic control (ATC) services, but he does have a solution: “We’d like to give out one big, beautiful contract, where they are responsible for everything from digging ditches to the most-complicated stuff”. Trump … Continue reading Trump rides to the rescue of US ATC| Learmount.com
Activity in Washington DC’s urban airspace is now being constrained – just a little – by the Federal Aviation Administration following its discovery that the risk of collisions at…| Learmount.com
Ryanair has been identified in the UK Consumers Association publication “Which?” as the air carrier against which airline awfulness is benchmarked, and it has found that – by one …| Learmount.com
The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union says 133 of its members at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have just been fired following a review of the agency by the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). They include aeronautical information managers, who update domestic and international information about the whole aviation environment, including routes, charts, … Continue reading Musk’s DOGE starts chopping at the FAA| Learmount.com
“Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings” (Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee Jr RCAF) There are probably millions of people aged in t…| Learmount.com
