Prior maintenance shortfalls blamed for PIA flight 661 crash
What should have been a normal final flight for the day of December 7, 2016, resulted in a…
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Flawed AoA sensor and maintenance led to Boeing 737 turn back
A dysfunctional Angle of attack (AoA) sensor and failure to properly follow maintenance procedures led to a Transavia…
Long-term storage and larvae forced Wizz Air A321 reject take-off
On June 16, 2020, a Wizz Air Airbus A321 (registered as G-WUKJ) was forced to reject two take-offs…
MH17 trial: Russian suspect denies any involvement
Oleg Pulatov, one of the four suspects, tried in absentia by the Netherlands for the murder of 298…
Cessna Citation exhaust gasses almost downed Vueling Airbus A320
France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) final report looked into how a Vueling…
Crew turned off alarms before bouncing Moroccan ATR 72 off water
Moroccan Ministry of Tourism, Air Transport, Craft & Social Economy published a report on Royal Air Maroc Express…
British Airways Boeing 747 crash with truck in Heathrow: Report
Back in December 2019, a British Airways Boeing 747, carrying 328 passengers and 17 crew onboard, was approaching…
Canada unsatisfied with Iran’s report on downed UIA PS-752 flight
New black box information regarding the Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) flight PS-752 downed by Iranian missiles on January…
Two years after Seattle plane heist: lessons learned and missed
August 10, 2018, saw an unscheduled and tragic airshow above Seattle: a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, followed by…
What do we know about Pakistan International Airlines crash?
Ninety-seven people were killed after the crash of flight PK8303 from Lahore to Karachi airport on May 22,…
Evidence from PIA PK8303 black boxes to be made public
Pakistani experts investigating the crash of PIA flight PK8303 returned from Le Bourget, France with the evidence extracted…
Pilots of fatal flight PIA PK8303 distracted by coronavirus
A month after the crash of PIA flight PK8303, a preliminary investigation report was released by the Civil…
A320 flies without engine covers after crew forgets to latch them
On November 8, 2018, Vueling Airbus A320-200 (registered as EC-MDZ) took off from Bilbao, Spain (BIO). Right after…
Water, smoke and arcing electricity in the cockpit of Safair B737
On December 10, 2019, a crew of Boeing 737-400 belonging to South African low-cost carrier Safair experienced an…
Air Astana E190 near-“ditch” incident due to faulty maintenance
Portuguese investigators released the final report of the chilling Air Astana E190 incident in November 2018. Back then,…
What happened to aviation safety during pandemic? |Data
No prior event affected the aviation industry as much as COVID-19 pandemic did. Amount of flights plummeted as…
Atlas Air crash: poor training history of copilot went undetected
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board determined that the crash of Atlas Air cargo Flight 3591 in a…
Canarias ATR 72 turbine disintegrates during takeoff
On October 15, 2019, ATR 72-212A regional turboprop belonging to Canarias Airlines (operating as Binter Canarias) was taking…