Private pilot, author and a pretty good cook. Based in Tallinn, Estonia. Fear of Landing updates every Friday night.
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N722BD’s left elevator turned up in three pieces, miles from the crater. Whether it came off before the upset or because of it is the real question. #Learjet60 fearoflanding.com/accidents/…
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The regional jet crew felt a vibration, then a jolt, then a cockpit full of warnings. They were still staring at their displays when another aircraft came on the radio asking Tower about “the collision”. It took them a moment to realise it was theirs.
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A parrot in O’Hare Terminal 5 chose fight, not flight. It wasn’t even the strangest thing in my inbox this week.
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There are safety reasons for keeping a sterile cockpit. Depending on the other pilot, there may also be personal reasons.
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The final report blamed the pilots. The same report’s analysis said there was almost nothing they could have done.
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What the hell? Reprinting my article without permission andputting a tiny "source" at the bottom that doesn't even link to the article is NOT fair use. aerohaber.com/klm-1673-veers… grrrrrr
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@aero__haber profile: AEROHABER has pledged to uphold journalistic ethical principles. All copyrights of the articles published on the Aero Haber website belong to Aero Haber.
lol no.
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The frustrations of writing about Flydubai FZ1073 before the facts are in: three versions of who the pilots were, four accounts of how the cockpit door was opened, and two extra pilots on board whose nationalities and reason for being there keep changing.
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Oh, is *that* why I'm suddenly getting so much traffic on that article!
I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week.
But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry.
Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The audio of pilots meowing and barking at DCA was a longstanding aviation joke/meme on the emergency guard frequency 121.5, unrelated to furries or any subculture, per reports and pilot accounts.
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The RAF ordered 28 Hawk T2s in 2006. On Wednesday it lost the first one. Flames during the take-off roll on a jet with no reheat and what the videos from the Valley perimeter show. fearoflanding.com/accidents/…
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The Amazon 767 that overran in Miami called "go-around" sixteen seconds *after* touchdown. The flight crew released the brakes at 120 knots, advanced the throttles, then changed their minds four seconds later. fearoflanding.com/accidents/…
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Two airliners flew low over a stadium packed with rugby fans. FlightRadar24 estimated the clearance at just 41 feet. Airlink says they flew exactly as authorised. So... what exactly did the South African CAA authorise? fearoflanding.com/crazy/airl…
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Two dozen people were injured on an Air India flight from Phuket to Delhi on the 4th of August. The Indian AAIB, with support from Airbus and the BEA, is trying to work out what happened.
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"Stop buzzer" is what a controller calls when GPS jamming has become a safety-of-flight issue. I found four years of ASRS reports of controllers making that call and getting pushback. #GPSjamming fearoflanding.com/accidents/…
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In 1969, the CIA built a survival device for reconnaissance pilots. The problem it solved wasn't the altitude, wasn't the machine, and wasn't the enemy.
fearoflanding.com/history/sh… – at Mesilla, NM
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A 22-year-old student pilot landed safely after her instructor left the aircraft in flight over Córdoba, Argentina. I've focused on local reporting to break down what we know so far, including translations of key sources that have not appeared in English. fearoflanding.com/accidents/…
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"There is a parachutist in front of you on the runway, you must go around."
There was no parachutist. But that wasn't actually the cause of the crash.
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