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.
A little ingenuity and precision borne of skilled repetition combined to save the Marines a hefty repair bill or worse on June 7. Marine Harrier pilot Capt. William Mahoney had a landing gear problem shortly after takeoff on a routine flight from the USS Bataan. The airplane’s nose gear wouldn’t deploy and because of the […]
Im sure you saw the dramatic footage of the Marine AV8 Harrier landing on the deck of the U.S.S. Bataan with a stuck nosegear. If you didnt, here it is.My initial reaction was twofold. First, the pilot, Captain William Mahoney, was really on his game in hovering that airplane prior to committing to the landing, […]
Judgment is the cornerstone of the air traffic control profession. This basic trait, common among thousands of successful air traffic controllers worldwide, allows controllers to face a variety of situations-including unusual pilot requests-and act appropriately. As with the folks in the cockpits, a controller relies on situational awareness. She takes a multitude of things into […]
The engineer who signed off on the construction of the ramp at Pakistan’s Sialkot International Airport likely has some explaining to do after a Shaheen Air International Boeing 737-400 rearranged it some during a routine engine test. Engineers did a high power run-up of the No. 1 engine on June 19 and turned the parking […]
President Obama has nominated Christopher Hart to be the next chair of the National Transportation Safety Board. He has been vice chair since October 2013 and has been a member of the NTSB since October 2009, along with other stints from 2009 through 2013 and 1990 through 1993. Hart faces confirmation by the Senate to […]
The FAA wants to reduce the allowable height of buildings near hundreds of airports – a proposal that is drawing fire from real estate developers and members of Congress who say it will reduce property values. The proposal, supported by airports and airlines, is driven by encroaching development that limits safe flight paths for planes […]
AVwebs weekly dig into aviation developments uncovered news that two states passed laws that include aviation in recreational activity protections, Lightspeed launched its long-promised Zulu PFX headset, the Cessna TTx was approved for flight into known icing (FIKI) and Zenith Aircraft set the date for its annual Hangar Day. On June 25, California Governor Jerry […]
The FAA has published its interpretation of the special rule for model aircraft (PDF) established by Congress and set a public comment period on what the FAA considers to be a model aircraft and thus exempt from future rulemaking action by the FAA. It also confirmed that it has the authority to take enforcement action […]
A female passenger is dead and two others were injured after a gunman opened fire on a Pakistan International Airways landing at Peshawar Airport in the fractious northwest part of the country. The airliner was on a flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was on short final, about 300 feet off the ground, when it […]
The private pilot who was taking a lesson in a Champion 7KCAB agricultural airplane that crashed last July in Oak Ridge, La., was impaired by his “recent use of marijuana and hydroxychloroquine,” the NTSB said in its probable-cause report, released on Monday. That impairment was cited as a contributing cause to the accident. The probable […]
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