Steve Scott

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  • Services No Longer Required?

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    Boeing Boosts Pilotless Aircraft Whenever some heretic neophyte innocently asks on a pilot forum, "Why haven’t airliners been automated and pilots dispensed with?", he can be guaranteed a rabid response […]

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  • The MU-2 Controversy Heats Up

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    The Aircraft’s Manufacturer Weighs In With A Rebuttal To Our Coverage Our highly critical analysis of the safety record of the MU-2 ("A Good Grounding in Grounding", Sept. 18 ASW) […]

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  • Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Lives?

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    The Renewed Push For Cockpit Image Recorder Systems The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) seems to agree with our headline. In a recently released study of 186 pages, the CAA’s […]

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  • Bungle In The Jungle

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    Clarity Emerges On Flight Level Assignments During The Legacy 600 And GOL 737 Collision Over Brazil In scrutinizing the events that led up to the fatal midair collision over the […]

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  • An Unfortunate Anniversary

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    A Deadly Event "Crashes" A Safety Celebration When he was in office during the early 1960s, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked by a journalist to name the biggest […]

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  • Squeezing Blood From The Flown

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    Jetblue And The Physiology Of Profit JetBlue received a reprimand last week from the FAA for encouraging pilots to fly beyond their flight and duty time, as part of a […]

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  • Doing A Collision By The Book

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    Opposites Attract: Seeking Closure Down In Brazil As the investigation into the fatal midair collision of the GOL 737 and the Embraer Legacy over Brazil’s Mato Grosso jungle proceeds, definite […]

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  • Out Of Thin Air

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    Helios Crash Report Highlights Hypoxia Born Of Human Error Akrivos Tsolakis, head of Greece’s National Aviation Safety Board, has now passed his 230 page report on the August 2005 Helios […]

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  • The Unthrustworthy 777

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    Emergency Airworthiness Directive Issued For The 777’s GE90 Thrust Rollbacks An emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD) issued September 30 stems from two occurrences of engine thrust rollback during takeoff on Boeing […]

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  • Nimrod Accident Highlights Common Safety Problems

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    Crew Reported An Out-Of-Control Electrical Fire The air war in Afghanistan is growing more lethal by the day. Case in point: An RAF Nimrod MR2 broke up at around 3000ft […]

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