AVweb’s Flight Safety section offers in-depth coverage of aviation safety topics, including accident analyses, risk management strategies, regulatory updates, and pilot training insights. Designed for pilots, instructors, and aviation professionals, this section provides timely information to enhance situational awareness and promote best practices in flight operations.
Hijackers of a Libyan airliner with 118 people aboard have surrendered to authorities following a standoff Friday morning on a tarmac in Malta. The Airbus A320 had departed Sabha in southwestern Libya late Thursday, and instead of flying its route to Tripoli at the northwestern border of the country, flew to Malta in the Mediterranean […]
A busy traffic pattern and a controller’s mistaken identity of an aircraft led to the midair collision of a Sabreliner jet and a Cessna 172 near San Diego in 2015, the NTSB found. All four on board the Sabreliner twin-engine aircraft and the solo pilot in a Cessna 172 were killed on Aug. 16 during […]
Most pilots are content do drone along in the straight-and-level, rarely banking beyond 30 degrees or pitching up and down beyond 10. Meanwhile, aerobatic pilots enthuse in their ability to fly upside down, vertically and in all combinations. Somewhere in the middle of these two extremes are what the FAA calls “performance maneuvers,” generally thought […]
The cause of the deadly crash of an Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 into one of Bolivia’s highest mountains nearly 32 years ago remains a mystery. But the investigation appears to have been revived with the recent retrieval of flight data recorders from the wreckage. ABC News reported Wednesday that the National Transportation Safety Board […]
Five out of six crew members on board an Aerosucre cargo jet are dead after the Boeing 727 crashed Tuesday night in Colombia. A flight technician was the lone survivor and is in a Bogota hospital, according to news reports. The crash followed what appeared to be a problem on takeoff at 5:23 p.m. UPI […]
A Boeing 777 turned the wrong way after departing from Los Angeles in a rainstorm on Friday morning, shortly after 1 a.m., and flew into an area of mountainous terrain before correcting course and safely reaching its destination in Taiwan. The incident, which was first reported Monday by local media, began when a controller told […]
Colton Harris-Moore, whose two-year teenage crime spree included the theft of several small airplanes — which he had taught himself to fly from manuals and videos — pled guilty in 2011 to 33 counts of burglary and theft, and now has served his sentence and is seeking funds through GoFundMe to start his legitimate flying […]
On a recent flight from San Antonio to Fort Stockton the center frequency got very quiet. Me: “Center you still there?” Center (after a few seconds): “Yeah, it’s slow but they won’t let me go home” Jack Ogle
AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication, Aviation Safety magazine and is published twice a month. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause in the NTSB’s web site atwww.ntsb.gov. Final reports […]
The Navy has grounded its fleet of F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets and G model Growlers after some kind of accident involving a Growler canopy injured a pilot and his or her backseater on Friday. The canopy on the aircraft is jettisoned in an ejection by explosive bolts and small rockets but the Navy hasn’t said […]
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