The crash of United Airlines Flight 173 led the airline industry as a whole to adopt Crew Resource Management (CRM). United…
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Civil AviationLosses and Aviation Safety
Former Boeing 737 pilot tells the story of an odd UFO sighting he had in the skies above Los Angeles
by Dario Leone‘Those bright lights we thought were from an aircraft on approach suddenly and almost instantaneously moved horizontally across the night sky…
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Civil AviationLosses and Aviation Safety
If Chesley Sullenberger’s Airbus A320 had ejection seats passengers would have died. Here are 7 reasons why it’s impossible to install ejection seats in commercial aircraft.
by Dario LeoneAn ejection seat is an emergency, last ditch, all-else has failed alternative to death. In aircraft, an ejection seat is a…
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Civil AviationLosses and Aviation Safety
Video shows dangerous jet blasts and insane landings at Skiathos International Airport
by Dario LeoneSkiathos International Airport 5,341-foot runway is able to accommodate aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-200. Filmed by our friend Dafydd…
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Civil AviationLosses and Aviation Safety
[Video] The Crew of this A380 Showed True Skill by landing Their Massive Airliner sideways in Storm Dennis at Heathrow
by Dario LeoneThe incredible video in this post captured the skilful manoeuvre that led to a successful touchdown of the world’s largest passenger…
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Civil AviationLosses and Aviation Safety
Video Apparently Shows the moment Ukrainian Boeing 737 Airliner is Shot Down by Iranian SAM
by Dario LeoneThe Boeing 737 was apparently shot down by two Russian made SA-15 surface to air missiles. The video in this post…
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Moreover on Nov. 23, Air France quietly retired its first Airbus A380. A very sad news. As the main image of…
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Aviation HistoryCivil AviationCold War Era
The 1959 Khrushchev visit to Washington marked the first Tupolev Tu-114 flight to America
by Dario LeoneThe flight went off without a hitch and the Tupolev Tu-114 was quite the superstar when it landed at Andrews AFB…
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Civil Aviation
Supersonic DC-8, i.e. the Concorde wasn’t the first Airliner to Break the Sound Barrier
by Dario LeoneChuck Yeager, the first person to ever go supersonic in 1947, escorted the DC-8 during its supersonic flight in an F-104…
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“Suicidal” Dash 8 airliner intercepted by F-15Cs before crash
by Dario LeoneF-15Cs aircraft scrambled out of Portland, Oregon, and were in the air within a few minutes and the pilots kept people…
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