Steve Scott

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• BALPA SAYS: "Walk A Mile Through Security In Our Shoes"

  BY Steve Scott// September 25th, 2006

  British Airline Pilots Call For New Security Steps In That Walk Britain’s pilots are unhappy with the existing security regime at airports and on aircraft, so they’ve written to U.K. […]

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• A Tale of Two T-Tails

  BY Steve Scott// September 18th, 2006

  Inescapably Floored by Design Flaws When Russia’s Pravda disclosed that the Pulkovo TU154 (reg: RA-85185) that crashed on Aug. 22, forty minutes after takeoff, had been trying to outclimb a […]

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• Lessons from a 737’s Aborted Night Takeoff in Oslo

  BY Steve Scott// September 11th, 2006

  "Confirmation Bias" Takes Over a Cockpit In a report released July 26, 2006, the Accident Investigation Board of Norway (AIBN) described how a Gardermoen ATC controller’s shouted intervention halted an […]

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• Unscheduled "Departures"

  BY Steve Scott// August 28th, 2006

  The Cloaking of the Autopilot can Conceal Imminent Upsets On the night of May 3, 2005, Fairchild-Swearingen SA227-AC Metro III airplane ZK-POA, operated by Airwork (NZ) Ltd, was on a […]

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• The Laptop Flare-Up

  BY Steve Scott// August 21st, 2006

  The NTSB Rekindles Objections to Onboard Electronics The world’s largest PC maker Dell is in the midst of one of the biggest safety recalls in the history of consumer electronics. […]

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• Printed Circuits: Conducting With A Difference

  BY Steve Scott// August 14th, 2006

  Innovations In Circuit Writing Convey Big Safety Implications Printed Circuit boards have been around as long as solid state but it’s how circuitry is printed, where and used in what […]

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• The Relentless March of the Robot Planes

  BY Steve Scott// August 7th, 2006

  The Move Toward Ultimate Automation The world’s militaries are increasingly turning to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fight the asymmetrical guerilla wars of the 21st century. However, a chronic shortage […]

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• Europe’s Plan for Hijacking the Hijackers

  BY Steve Scott// July 31st, 2006

  The RoboLander Agenda A European consortium of regulators and aviation manufacturers is pushing forward with development of the RoboLander air security device, to the tune of $45 million. The International […]

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• Shuttle Misinformation?

  BY Steve Scott// July 24th, 2006

  Anyone rejoicing over the space shuttle’s safe return, as a catharsis of earlier disaster, would do well to recapitulate a mite. Consider the following: a. NASA ultimately launched on the […]

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• The Price of No Prist

  BY Steve Scott// July 17th, 2006

  With Double Flame-outs, The Stress is Additive When a Pinnacle Airlines regional jet flamed out both engines in October 2004, it was ultimately revealed that the pilots had exceeded the […]

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