Air Safety news and insight from around the United Kingdom
A report by the UK Airprox Board has concluded that the pilot of a Malaysia Airlines Airbus A350 did not comply with the instructions from Air Traffic Control putting it at “high risk” of colliding with a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 over London last year. The incident, which occurred on [read more]
Three Britons and a South African are known to have been killed in a plane crash at Dubai International Airport (DXB/OMDB). The crash, which happened around 19:30 local time, is said to have involved a navigation aid calibration aircraft belonging to Shoreham Airport based Flight Calibration Services Limited. Flight Calibration [read more]
Three people escaped with apparently minor injuries after a light aircraft came down and burst into flames on the A40 between Raglan and Abergavenny. South Wales Fire and Rescue said they were called to reports of an aircraft crash at 11:03 this morning and that crews from Abergavenny, Blaenavon & [read more]
A statement released by Boeing shows that the airframer was aware of a software issue with MCAS on the Boeing 737 Max in 2017 but chose not to act. Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) has been implicated in two fatal Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes a Lion Air Crash in [read more]
Boeing CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg, has released a video statement saying he was “sorry for the deaths” following two fatal Boeing 737 Max accidents that have been linked to Boeing’s MCAS system. The statement came after the preliminary report into the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 in March which [read more]
Air crash investigators probing the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 have concluded that Boeing’s MCAS system was active in the moments before it crashed killing 157 people according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a system that Boeing added to [read more]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finally joined the rest of the world and grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 following last weeks crash which killed 157 people. The FAA said that it was clear that the track of the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 “was very close and behaved very [read more]
Pressure is growing on the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to follow the rest of the world and ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 fleet following sundays second fatal accident of the type in 6 months. US Senators and Flight Crew Unions are among those who have called on the [read more]
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has issued a notice grounding all UK Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft and barring any from entering UK airspace. The move means the UK is the latest aviation authority to ground the type following two fatal crashes of the type in 6 months. The [read more]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a continued airworthiness notification, effectively stating publicly that the Boeing 737 Max 8 is airworthy but the reason they have done that is perhaps more telling. An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after take-off earlier this week killing all onboard, [read more]
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