A severe hard landing by a Malaysia Airlines A330 at Melbourne Airport has kept it stranded there for the last 10 days pending inspections, any necessary repairs and now, an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. The A330 is now ‘limping home’. It was picked it up on Flightradar24 this morning as MAS5160 crossing…
Montreal, Canada, March 25, 2015 – (NYSE: CAE; TSX: CAE) – CAE today announced that it has sold five full-flight simulators (FFSs) and simulator update services to customers in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Link
According to FlightRadar24, Between 09:30:52 and 09:30:55, the autopilot was manually changed from 38,000 feet to 100 feet and 9 seconds later the aircraft started to descend, probably with the “open descent” autopilot setting. Here are all the details
Following the fatal Germanwings crash, Air Canada has announced it will be implementing a policy change requiring two crew members to be in the cockpit of all flights at all times. Link
A pilot who “crashed” in the seaplane landing strip at Houston Hooks airport was uninjured, and was able to “swim to safety”. Link
850 mile journey took 18 hours? This is exactly what happened to passengers originally scheduled to fly on Frontier Flight 287. Link
As investigators head to the remote site in the French Alps where Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed yesterday, aviation experts are remembering an air disaster that happened in what the International Business Times calls a “freakishly close” location near the village of Barcelonnette. Link
