The flight recorders from Continental Airlines flight 1404, which slid off the runway during takeoff in Denver, Colorado In 2008. Mark Wilson/Getty Images Airplane crashes are violent affairs. In many such accidents, the only devices that survive are the crash-survivable memory units (CSMUs) ...
many pilot candidates must still shoulder that financial burden alone. About 25% of Aviate’s candidates are on the hook for the more than $70,000 in training costs from zero through 250 hours – the point at which a trainee is eligible for a commercial pilot certificate. At other...
Budget airlines also offer fewer cabin amenities. This can take many forms, from smaller, lightly padded seats to the absence of free meals andalcoholicbeverages. The typical budget airline offers a basic seat and anything else a passenger wants in-flight can be had for an additional fee. Not...
Many times an ROV is sent down to access the situation so the crew can decide the best course of action for response. If the disabled submarine is simply trapped or has lost power, the ROV can often cut it free or tow it to the surface. Hard-shelled suits that can withstand pressure ...
But if you move around your drone in too many angles from there, there could be obstacles in the path of the drone from the initial flight position, and then you have to navigate it back to the landing place or to another suitable landing spot manually. ...
airplane safety and how past incidents have influenced current protocols, read this data analysis onBoeing plane crashes. This blog will guide you through the factors to consider when selecting airplane seats for your family, helping you make informed choices that prioritize your family’s well-...
Statistically speaking, it's best to be a flight crew member, a child, or traveling in a military aircraft. Over the past four decades, there have been at least a dozen commercial airline crashes with just one survivor. Of those documented, four of the survivors were crew, like the flight...
The two official accident inquiries (Indonesian and Ethiopian) and the many parallel US institutional post-mortems uncovered shocking evidence about attitudes at Boeing – and at its overseer the Federal Aviation Administration. After the crashes it took about three years to discover that Boeing did ...
What many with flying phobia do have in common, Wilson and Cummings agree, is the tendency to ignore statistics. While 159 passengers in the U.S. died on scheduled airline flights in 1994, according to the National Safety Council, nearly 22,000 died in car, bus and train crashes that ye...
While go-arounds can feel jarring to passengers, they are routine, happening more than three times per day on average last year across the United States, a CNN analyst said.