Accidents/NTSB

Boeing announced on Thursday that it has completed development of updated software for the 737 MAX, as well as concluding the associated simulator testing and completing the company’s engineering test flight. The software update is designed to address faults with the aircraft’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that are widely considered to have significantly contributed […]

An old-school technique tested by a U.S. flight crew in a 737 simulator might have helped the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airline crews had they known about it. Colloquially referred to as the “roller coaster,” the procedure requires the aircraft experiencing an out-of-trim condition to descend with reduced elevator input so that the horizontal stabilizer […]

Ten people are injured and at least five dead in a midair collision of two seaplanes carrying tourists from a cruise ship near Ketchikan, Alaska. One passenger has not been found. All were passengers on a Royal Princess cruise out of Vancouver. The aircraft were a DeHavilland Otter flown by Taquan Air and a Beaver […]

Weeks of critical coverage of Boeing’s 737 MAX program has dented Boeing’s stock price—although not much—and left the flying public with diminished confidence in the MAX, if not Boeing itself. For Boeing and the news-consuming public, the story has been an intermittent drip-drip of new revelations, none of them particularly dispositive for the airplane maker. […]

AVweb’sGeneral Aviation Accident Bulletinis taken from the pages of our sister publication,Aviation Safetymagazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause on the NTSB’s website atwww.ntsb.gov. Final reports appear about a year after the accident, although some take longer. […]

Boeing 737 MAX That design is so utterly incompetent and the FAA allowing it is so utterly incompetent that it boggles the mind of this pilot flying for 35 years! Clearly the airline rule of requiring redundancy of any component with a greater than 1 in 10,000,000 chance of failure was ignored. Considering the MCAS […]

The FAA on Tuesday announced that it has convened a Technical Advisory Board to review Boeing’s proposed changes to the 737 MAX’s MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) software. The board, which does not have Boeing representation, includes the FAA, NASA, the U.S. Air Force and Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (part of the Department of […]

Passengers who survived the Miami Air 737 that skidded off the runway in Jacksonville last week have been offered $2500 as a “goodwill gesture” from the airline. All 143 people aboard survived the overrun, though three animals in the cargo hold perished. The 737-800 was carrying military and family members from Guantanamo Bay. Miami Air […]

A chartered Challenger 601 bound to Monterrey, Mexico, from Las Vegas crashed in a remote region of Mexico near Ocampo, leaving no survivors. USA Today is reporting that “search crews on Mondayfound no survivors. The jet carried three crew members and 10passengerswhowere returningfrom a tripthat included seeing a boxing match.” The wreckage was found 165 […]

My airplane has wingtip-mounted fuel tanks, installed under a supplemental type certificate (STC). In many ways, they’ve transformed and improved the machine by adding greater loading flexibility, thanks in part to a gross-weight increase. What drag they produce isn’t noticeable, and the additional endurance means the airplane is faster over some trips than it was […]