Dangers of Aircraft Tyre (US: Tire) Inflation The Royal Canadian Air Force are investigating two recent tyre inflation burst accidents. Both involve visiting aircraft using borrowed equipment: 25 August...
Learn MoreBack to the Future: Error Management A year ago we published our article James Reason’s 12 Principles of Error Management. It set out set out the 12 systemic human factors centric principles of error...
Learn MoreMid Air Collision Typhoon & Learjet 35 During ‘Renegade’ air interception training a civilian Learjet 35, D-CGFI, collided with a Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoon. The German Federal Bureau of...
Learn MoreUSAF RC-135V Rivet Joint Oxygen Fire A US Air Force (USAF) accident investigation has paradoxically determined that a fire that caused of damage in April 2015 was due to a maintenance error but that no human...
Learn More‘Procedural Drift’: Lynx CFIT in Afghanistan (Lynx AH9A ZF540 near Kandahar) ‘Procedural drift’ in the operating detachment was noted by the Service Inquiry into a British military...
Learn MoreAW169 Update Launched at Farnborough International 2010, the 4.5t AgustaWestland AW169 is progressing towards certification and entry-into-service which AW describes as being “in a few months’...
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