INFOGRAPHIC 5 cases of pilots downing their planes /@afp
#INFOGRAPHIC Precedents of pilots downing their planes pic.twitter.com/25gtCGysea— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) 27 Mars 2015
NEWS Co-pilot ‘deliberately’ destroyed Germanwings flight 4U 9525
The co-pilot of Germanwings flight 4U 9525 appeared to deliberately “destroy the plane”, French officials have revealed. Speaking to media, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, said the co-pilot intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out of the cockpit. Robin confirmed the hypothesis based on information from the ‘black box’ voice recorder recovered from…
PHOTOS Massive power outage in Amsterdam Schiphol airport terminals
Cheeky power cut at the airport #pryce #amsterdam Une photo publiée par John McPartland (@john_mcp) le 27 Mars 2015 à 2h29 PDT Power outage @Schiphol airport. Looking like lots of delays. Security screening @ gate not working (D-gates at least) pic.twitter.com/vwhQIhbLB7— Simon Bolton (@simonrbolton) 27 Mars 2015 Been sat for an hour in the dark…
NEWS #Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had serious depressive episode (Bild newspaper) #4U9525
Citing internal documents and Lufthansa sources, Bild said Andreas Lubitz spent a total of one and a half years in psychiatric treatment and that the relevant documents would be passed to French investigators once they had been examined by German authorities. Lufthansa Chief Executive Carsten Spohr told a news conference on Thursday that Lubitz had…
NEWS: 52 deaths highlight impact of recent air disasters on Australia
In the last 17 months, 52 Australians have been killed in air disasters. People sign the memorial book, lay flower and light the candle in memory of the victims of MH17 passengers. Amsterdam International Airport (Schiphol), 21 July 2014. (Pejman Akbarzadeh / Persian Dutch Network) 2015 March 25: France: A Victorian woman and her adult…
NEWS: Damaged Malaysia Airlines A330 is limping home
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…
NEWS CAE awarded contracts valued at more than C$70 million for five full-flight simulators and update services
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
ALERT If you missed it, there are new very important data about #Germanwings flight #4U9525 autopilot
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
NEWS New cockpit policy for Air Canada
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
NEWS Light Plane Flips in KDWH Seaplane Strip
A pilot who “crashed” in the seaplane landing strip at Houston Hooks airport was uninjured, and was able to “swim to safety”. Link
