Flight Ops, News, safety data, uncrewed aircraft
ATSB reports a new occurrence of an airliner’s pitot tube covers being removed minutes before takeoff.
An Airbus A350 was about to be pushed back for departure from Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) Airport when a refueller working nearby saw that covers were still on its pitot probes — a situation that, if unnoticed, would have provided the flight crew with unreliable airspeed indications, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.
Aircraft data showed at least one event involving loss of separation between aircraft nearing DCA…
Accident/Incident Investigation, Flight Deck, In-depth Feature
The heavy workload accompanying a smoke-in-the-cockpit event interfered with checklist completion by a Metro 23…
Accident data for 2024 falls short of the ‘exceptional performance’ recorded the previous year, IATA…
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