Loss of flight controls need not be a death sentence, as engine thrust can be used as a fallback means of bringing a stricken airplane to a reasonably safe landing. More than 1,000 aircrew and passengers have been killed over the years when primary flight control systems failed, pilots were forced ...
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A recommendation to modify the Airbus A300-600 rudder travel limiter (RTL) to prevent excessive aerodynamic loads could be the first of more calls to improve the airplane's rudder control system. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a May 28 recommendation based on its findings ...
Traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS) technology will not be required on cruising aircraft separated vertically by 1,000 feet, according to a final rule on domestic reduced vertical separation minimum (DRVSM). Nor has the rule been issued with a complete and final safety analysis, as ...
Awkward emergency equipment and erratic displays complicate coping There is nothing like the whiff of something burning to have an effect on a pilot akin to a jolt of chilled water to the heart. Fire, and especially an electrical fire - with its potential to directly attack the "nervous system& ...
Aviation industry lags rail, maritime sectors in use of video recordings The cameras are coming. In the not-too-distant future transport category aircraft might well be equipped with closed circuit television systems to cover both interior spaces and the exterior of the aircraft as the technology ...
Repairs can cover and conceal evidence of structural weakening Fatigue damage under patches known as doublers can be deadly, and an expanded hunt must be mounted to find spreading cracks before they cause a catastrophe. That is the central message in a battery of recommendations issued April 8 by ...
"This is a dangerous precedent," says Jim Hall, former Safety Board chairman By appointing the team to investigate the fatal Feb. 1 crash of the space shuttle Columbia, the action of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is analogous to an airline appointing the panel ...