Air Safety

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

"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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]