Commercial airline crashes with fatalities
Two passengers who allegedly suffered turbulence-related injuries during a flight across the south-western United States in March 1996 sued the airline. The airline hired an aviation meteorologist who concluded that there was no meteorological evidence for the turbulence encounter. However, the ...
and spacex is far from the only company that has experienced crashes. virgin galactic, for instance, faced tragedy in 2014 when pilot pete siebold and copilot michael alsbury were in spaceshiptwo underneath the whiteknight jet. blue origin jeff bezos, of amazon fame and fortune, is still ver...
But Boeing says that while the KLM aircraft was the last 737NG to come off its production line, the final delivery went to China Eastern on 5 January. That airline received two NGs on 5 January. Those aircraft, both now in storage, have registration numbers B-20A...
As part of a lawsuit against Microsoft, it was revealed that only 17.9% of the Vista crashes were known to be caused by Microsoft (during an unspecified portion of 2007) – the rest were third-party drivers or unknown causes. So, not all MS’s fault, but still not good. Applications ...
Engine MRO is a vital and expensive part of an MRO. The increasing complexity of engine parts and the increased number of aircraft crashes due to engine failures have made operators focus on frequent engine maintenance and periodic checks. An engine is one of the most critical components of the...
A remarkable thing happened on American airplanes last year: For the first time since the beginning of commercial flight, there were no fatalities on any US airline anywhere in the world. This preliminary statistic from the Federal Aviation Administration is a powerful antidote to the public ...
Barnett is a long-established expert in the field ofaviation safetyand risk, whose work has helped contextualize accident and safety statistics. Whatever the absolute numbers of air crashes and fatalities may be—and they fluctuate from year to year—Barnett has sought to measure those numbers agai...
by Ian Thomsen,Northeastern University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Why has commercial airline travel become so safe in the United States? The tragic crash of Yeti Airlinesflight691 in Nepal serves as a reminder of how commercial flying used to be in the U.S., whereairplanecrashes were...
and spacex is far from the only company that has experienced crashes. virgin galactic, for instance, faced tragedy in 2014 when pilot pete siebold and copilot michael alsbury were in spaceshiptwo underneath the whiteknight jet. blue origin jeff bezos, of amazon fame and fortune, is still ver...