1(a) We based our preliminary findings on information from the publicly released preliminary accident reports. (b) While Boeing uses the term “uncommanded MCAS function” in its assessment documents, in this report, we are using the term “unintended ...
Excluding NTSB Final Aircraft Accident Reports and FAA Airworthiness Directives at Trialabout what did or did not occur, orabout the likelihood of a particular sce-nario before a crash, should be recog-nized as a tactic to end-run the inad-missi...
1(a) We based our preliminary findings on information from the publicly released preliminary accident reports. (b) While Boeing uses the term “uncommanded MCAS function” in its assessment documents, in this report, we are using the term “unintended MCAS operation” as it relates to our revi...
Deer on airports: an accident waiting to happen The authors analyzed data on civil aircraft strikes with wild ungulates (deer [Odocoileus spp.], elk [Cervus canadensis] and moose [Alces alces]) in the U.S. from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wildlife Strike Database and the......
accident investigations are conducted to help determine measures to avoid similar accidents. They are fact-finding proceedings, not adversarial proceedings. Second, no legal consequences flow from the accident reports. The accident investigation's results are not admissible in court, and they do not le...
Dr. Paul Schuda, Director of the NTSB Training Center, discussed the art and science of aircraft accident investigation during a June class.NTSB/Twitter Paul Schuda, director of theNTSB Training Centerin Ashburn, Virginia, died last Saturday when the Cessna 210 he was riding in crashed in sou...
crashed with thirteen people on board. After landing hard and skidding into the de-icing tanks at the Bradley International Airport, all but the tail and port wing of the 74 year old WWII aircraft was destroyed. Seven lives were lost in the accident, including that of Pilot Ernest “Mac”...
had been tasked to conduct aHEMS / air ambulanceflight to transfer a patient from a road accident in a canyon in theAngeles National Forest. Oddly in the accident report form the LASD did not declare the applicable regulations a being ‘Public Aircraft’ but incorrectly as a ‘Part 91 Air ...
The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft In-Flight Emergency 91.3 In an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extend required...
‘Disappointing’: NTSB chair slams Boeing over investigation Transportation Boeing stonewalling Alaska Airlines investigation, federal accident chief says Q&A ‘I’m Not Trying to Cause a Scene. I Just Want to Get Off This Plane.’ Transportation ...