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[ad_1] It still remains unknown what factors caused the deadly collision on 29 January between a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and American Airlines flight 5342, but some theories have started to emerge. Government officials, including secretary of defence Pete and President Donald Trump, seemed to indicate on 30 January that the army rotorcraft may have exceeded the altitude ceiling for rotary-wing aircraft operating along that stretch of the River near Ronald Reagan Washington National airport. The incident involved a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk …

[ad_1] Japanese investigators have disclosed that a De Havilland Dash 8-300’s departure from Tokyo Haneda was supposed to be threaded between two arriving aircraft, before it entered the runway and was fatally struck by the first of them, a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900. The collision left only one survivor, the captain, from the six occupants of the Dash 8, but all 379 on board the A350 escaped with just five sustaining injuries. Japanese investigation authority JTSB has yet to reach final conclusions on …

[ad_1] White lighting on a De Havilland Dash 8 would have blended in with surrounding runway lights, rendering it difficult to see before the aircraft was struck by a landing Airbus A350 at Tokyo Haneda a year ago. Japanese investigators probing the fatal 2 January 2024 collision have conducted simulations of the A350 pilots’ cockpit view of runway 34R, pointing out that the Dash 8 was aligned with the centreline about 150m beyond the A350’s aiming point. The simulations, carried out in April …

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[ad_1] Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to place Airbus A350s to the Gulf states of Bahrain and Kuwait, meaning it will serve one of the airline’s shortest routes. It will operate both services from Dubai beginning on 8 January. The Dubai-Bahrain sector is just 260nm and has a flight time of 1h 20min, while the distance from Dubai to Kuwait is about 460nm with a flight time of 1h 50min. Emirates says it will use the A350-900 on two of its daily Bahrain flights, …

[ad_1] Azerbaijan’s presidential office has given the clearest indication yet that the Embraer 190 which crashed in Aktau suffered considerable flight-control damage as a result of an external detonation in Russian airspace. The office has detailed a telephone call between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev on 28 December during which, it states, Putin “expressed his apologies” over the “tragic incident”. Aliyev told Putin that the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft suffered a “complete loss of control” as a result of “external …

[ad_1] The Jeju Air 737-800 that crashed at South Korea’s Muan airport on the morning of 29 December attempted to land without its landing gear deployed. Footage on social media shows the aircraft (HL8088) flying down the airport’s runway 19 at highspeed, landing gear up, as its tail scrapes the runway surface. Finally, the engines and fuselage set down and the jet veers off the runway, bursting into flames. The video also indicates that the wing was “clean”, whereas in a typical landing the …

[ad_1] The death toll in the fatal crash of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 at South Korea’s Muan airport has risen to 122 out of the 181 aboard the jet. According to South Korea’s official Yonhap news agency, firefighting sources say that only two of the 181 aboard the aircraft (HL8088) are likely to have survived. Footage on social media shows the aircraft flying down runway 19 at Muan without its landing gear lowered. The aircraft’s spoilers and flaps also appear to not have …

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[ad_1] Smoke in the cockpit and cabin of a Swiss-operated Airbus A220-300 during a 23 December flight forced the crew to make an emergency landing in Graz, Austria.  In a post on social media platform X, the Lufthansa Group carrier confirmed “an incident” involving flight LX1885 – which was carrying 74 passengers and five crew members from Bucharest to Zurich. ”The cockpit crew decided to make an unscheduled landing in Graz,” the carrier says. ”The aircraft is currently on the runway, the passengers have …

[ad_1] American Airlines’ operations were disrupted by a nationwide ground stop on the morning of 24 December, amid the height of the winter holiday air travel period.  The Fort Worth-headquartered carrier confirmed via social media that it had “resolved a vendor technology issue that briefly affected flights this morning”.  “We sincerely apologise to our customers for the inconvenience and have issued a travel alert to allow for additional flexibility,” American says.  Fight-tracking platform FlightAware shows that nearly 40% of American’s 24 December flights have been …

[ad_1] Azerbaijan Airlines has confirmed that 67 occupants were on board an Embraer 190 which crashed while operating a service to Grozny. It adds that there are a number of survivors from the accident which occurred about 3km from Aktau in Kazakhstan. Video images circulating on social media purportedly show the aircraft in a steep descent, and a right bank, before it strikes the ground in a nose-down attitude, rolling inverted and breaking up. The carrier says the twinjet was conducting the J28423 service …