1980 MD-81 Flight Test Accident Video
A classic and spectacular MD-81 flight test landing accident caught in a brief video. We look at the NTSB investigation in more detail.
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The Jet that Almost ‘Landed’ on a Tower Block
An airliner on a night approach at Dublin lined-up not on the runway but on the lights of a tower block. We look at the investigation, the lessons and the prompt safety action taken.
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Deadly Combination of Misloading and a Somatogravic Illusion: Alaskan Otter
Night departure of a Otter in Alaska into a ‘back hole’ when outside of the weight and CG limits resulted in spatial disorientation, a stall and LOC-I.
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A320 Rolls Back on Stand: Incomplete Maintenance Procedures and Ground Handling Deviations
The brakes had been set OFF during maintenance trouble shooting and the chocks removed prematurely, so the aircraft rolled when a tug with a u/s radio was being swapped out.
A320 Flown on After Damaging Heavy Landing
An A320 was flown with pax back to Germany after a 3.32G heavy landing due to insufficient maintenance resource and lack of understanding of fault codes say CIAIAC.
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Common Comet Misconceptions and Collaborative Contribution to Safety
We counter a couple of common misconceptions about the Comet accidents of 1953 and 1954, looking at flawed assumptions and unintended consequences in design.
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Swedish Special Forces SPIES and Military SMS
Safety lessons from a serious incident during a Swedish Special Forces trial of Special Patrol Insertion and Extraction System (SPIES) under a UH-60M helicopter.
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False Fire Warning and Unfeathered Propeller KA200 Accident
An air ambulance King Air 200 was substantially damaged during a single engined landing in Australia with HF, training, SMS and CAMO lessons.
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Incomplete Maintenance Leads to Fatal Collective Control Loss on B407
A critical flying control component was unnecessarily removed during an inspection say the NTSB and when refitted, the fasteners were not lock-wired with fatal consequences.
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S-92A Collision with Obstacle while Taxying
A collision during apron works at Stavanger. A skipped risk assessment by airport/contractors, misleading concrete barriers and confirmation bias. Highlights the fallacy of over reliance on safety reporting.
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Elevator Failure: Moisture + Heat
A combination of thermal load from a dark colour scheme and moisture caused a disbond on an RCAF CC150 Polaris (A310) elevator.
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Deliberate Action: A Mindful Method from the Nuclear Navy
David Marquet describes a technique developed while CO of the nuclear submarine USS Santa Fe, to reduce errors and increase mindfulness during critical tasks.
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North Sea S-92A Helicopter Airprox Feb 2017
The UK Airprox Board discuss interesting Human Factors (HF) aspects to an airprox off Aberdeen, Scotland involving two North Sea offshore helicopters in Feb 2017.
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Impromptu Flypast Leads to Disaster
Accident investigators comment on human factors that influenced a KA200 flypast, caught on video, which turned disastrously wrong in Iceland. Amazingly one person survived the impact.
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EASA Annual Safety Review 2017 Published
We examine the safety performance for the main European aviation sectors, described in the EASA ASR for 2017. The latest edition further extends the provision of safety risk portfolios through the addition of aerodromes/ground handling and ATM/ANS portfolios, bringing the total number of analysed aviation domains to 13.
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Perception and Fatigue: RCAF CH124 Sea King Engine Failure
Fatigue was identified as a significant contributing factor leading to the perception error that resulted in an engine failure on a RCAF Sea King during training.
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Hazardous Hangar Hovertaxi
Hover taxying into a hangar to avoid a weather front may have been a dubious decision. But trying to hover taxy out when there was no urgency proved disastrous.
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Super Puma Epicyclic Gear Health Monitoring Background
We look at health monitoring, both oil debris and HUMS/VHM, in light of the EC225 LN-OJF accident investigation.
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Helicopter Ops and Safety – Gulf Of Mexico 2016 Update
We look at HSAC data on GOM ops in 2016. A decline in helicopter usage continues but there were no air accidents. This was only the 4th fatality-free year in 33. 2017 is not as rosy.
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Avoiding Mid Air Collisions: 5 Seconds to Impact
You may only have 5 seconds or so between the eye detecting an aircraft head-on and impact. The UK Airprox Board highlight 6 lessons from past airproxes/MACs.
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All Aboard CFIT: Alaskan Sightseeing Fatal Flight and Safety Culture
A case study of a pathological safety culture. Management and peer pressure, compounded by poor contracting and scheduling by a cruise line resulted in high risk flights in poor weather.
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Maintenance Human Factors in Finnish F406 Landing Gear Collapse
Safety investigators discuss the associated maintenance human factors and inadequacies in the type’s maintenance instructions.
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Strictly Scheduled: S-92A Start-Up Incident
Under customer induced time pressures, a pilot undergoing type conversion missed a unique type specific action that was not explicitly allocated to either PF or PM.
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Deepening Delivery: HeliOffshore 2017 Conference Report
We report from the third HeliOffshore Conference and AGM on deepening commitment and collaboration to improve offshore helicopter safety.
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BFU Report on Dramatic Challenger Wake Vortex Accident
A business jet was written off after dropping 9,000ft after an A380 wake vortex encounter resulted in a loss of control say the BFU.
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