Accident/Incident Investigation, Flight Deck, News
A 737’s low thrust setting kept the airplane on the ground until only 400 m of runway remained, the U.K. AAIB says.
Existing methods are not fully effective in preventing takeoffs with inadequate thrust, the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) says, citing a 2021 serious incident in which a Boeing 737-800 took off from Kuusamo Airport in Finland with the thrust set at 70 percent instead of the required takeoff setting of 89 percent.
Accident Investigation, Flight Training, In-depth Feature, Maintenance Matters
Indonesian accident investigators say a recurring autothrottle problem and the pilots’ inadequate UPRT contributed to the fatal crash of a Boeing 737.
The NTSB says the airplane’s horizontal stabilizer actuator had separated.
