The investigation showed that the RNoAF should intensify its safety management, including on risk, competency and safety culture. It also identified a need for an independent and comprehensive supervisory body for military aviation in Norway.
A Second from Disaster: RNoAF C-130J Near CFIT Read Post »
A change in plan resulted in a helicopter returning with an unballasted sling and at a higher than advised speed this entangled with the tail rotor.
Unballasted Sling Stings Speedy Squirrel Read Post »
A police helicopter presses on for a second time into deteriorating weather.
Plan Continuation Bias & IIMC in Kenyan Police AW119 Accident Read Post »
We look at a takeoff accident to a USAF UAS where the engine condition lever was retarded instead of the flaps being retracted.
USAF MQ-9A Reaper Lever Confusion: Human Factors Read Post »
A key component was never recovered, investigators seem to have misunderstood their own laboratory’s report on another and the NTSB conclusions omit to identify the evident failure of a shear pin to correctly perform its safety function as a factor.
NTSB suggest an air lock in the fuel system plus an auto-feather system failure which may have occurred if the power lever was manually retarded during the auto-feather sequence. The DC-3 was below the airspeed required to maintain lateral control after an engine failure with an unfeathered propeller.
Did you know that rain on a windscreen, in addition to causing poor visibility, introduces a refraction error that can make objects appear lower, by up to 5 degrees?
Windscreen Rain Refraction: Mountain Mine Site HESLO CFIT Read Post »
