Aviation Crashes and other FAA News

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Aircraft has disappeared in Alaska. Alaska is a rough place for small planes.

 
“… Preliminary estimates of the total number of accidents involving a U.S. registered civilian aircraft decreased from 1,277 in 2022 to 1,216 in 2023. The number of civil aviation deaths decreased from 358 in 2022 to 327 in 2023. All but 4 of the 327 deaths in 2023 were onboard fatalities. None of these deaths involved a commercial scheduled airline….”

 
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1 dead, several injured after Vince Neil’s private jet veers off runway in Scottsdale

At least one person is dead and several others are hospitalized after a private plane owned by Vince Neil, who was not onboard, collided with another plane while landing at Scottsdale's airport.
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At least one person is dead after two jets, including one owned by rock star Vince Neil, collided on the runway at Scottsdale Municipal Airport on Monday afternoon. Neil was not on board.

Around 2:45 p.m., multiple emergency crews responded to reports of an emergency at the airport near Scottsdale and Thunderbird roads.

According to the FAA, Neil’s Learjet 35A veered off the runway after landing and crashed into a Gulfstream G-200 business jet that was parked.

Airport officials say it appears the left main landing gear failed as it was landing, causing the collision.

One person was dead when fire crews arrived.
 


Is this like when the media fixates on shark attacks in the summer or an actual issue?
 
I watched Black Hawk Down on Netflix last night. Kinda of a hard watching knowing the good guys get humiliated. Well, sort of. The bravery these people demonstrate to me is simply unimaginable. I did find interesting the background of three of the survivors featureds, which was essentially lost years as a teenager, no direction, drug use, etc, until they found a direction. I suppose becoming a Army Ranger is just another way to push the envelope. Anyway, for me a hard watch, but recommend it.
 
heel79 said:
I watched Black Hawk Down on Netflix last night. Kinda of a hard watching knowing the good guys get humiliated. Well, sort of. The bravery these people demonstrate to me is simply unimaginable. I did find interesting the background of three of the survivors featureds, which was essentially lost years as a teenager, no direction, drug use, etc, until they found a direction. I suppose becoming a Army Ranger is just another way to push the envelope. Anyway, for me a hard watch, but recommend it.
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You didn’t watch Black Hawk Down. You watched Surviving Black Hawk Down. One is a movie, one is a documentary around the events in that movie. Very different.
 


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National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told reporters that the recording from the Black Hawk helicopter cockpit suggested an incomplete radio transmission may have left the crew without understanding how it should shift position just before the Jan. 29 crash, in which all 67 aboard the two aircraft were killed,

“That transmission was interrupted -– it was stepped on,” she said, leaving them unable to hear the words “pass behind the” because the helicopter’s microphone key was pressed at the same moment.

… William Waldock, professor of safety science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, said stepped-on transmissions — where a pressed microphone key blocks incoming communication — is a well-known problem in aviation.

… The helicopter pilots may have also missed part of another communication, when the tower said the jet was turning toward a different runway, she said.

Homendy said the helicopter was on a “check” flight that night where the pilot was undergoing an annual test and a test on using night vision goggles. Investigators believe the crew was wearing night vision goggles throughout the flight. …”
 
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National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy told reporters that the recording from the Black Hawk helicopter cockpit suggested an incomplete radio transmission may have left the crew without understanding how it should shift position just before the Jan. 29 crash, in which all 67 aboard the two aircraft were killed,

“That transmission was interrupted -– it was stepped on,” she said, leaving them unable to hear the words “pass behind the” because the helicopter’s microphone key was pressed at the same moment.

… William Waldock, professor of safety science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, said stepped-on transmissions — where a pressed microphone key blocks incoming communication — is a well-known problem in aviation.

… The helicopter pilots may have also missed part of another communication, when the tower said the jet was turning toward a different runway, she said.

Homendy said the helicopter was on a “check” flight that night where the pilot was undergoing an annual test and a test on using night vision goggles. Investigators believe the crew was wearing night vision goggles throughout the flight. …”
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“… The collision likely occurred at an altitude just under 300 feet (91 meters), as the plane descended toward the helicopter, which was well above its 200-foot (61-meter) limit for that location.

Cockpit conversations a few minutes before the crash indicated conflicting altitude data, Homendy said, with the helicopter’s pilot calling out that they were then at 300 feet (91 meters), but the instructor pilot saying they were at 400 feet (122 meters), Homendy said.

“We are looking at the possibility there may be bad data,” she said.

That generation of Black Hawks typically has two types of altimeters — one relying on barometric pressure and the other on radio frequency signals bounced off the ground. Helicopter pilots typically rely on barometric readings while flying, but the helicopter’s black box captures its radio altitude.

The radio altitude at the time of the impact put the Black Hawk at 278 feet (85 meters), Homendy said.

“But I want to caution, that does not mean that’s what the Black Hawk crew was seeing on the barometric altimeters in the cockpit,” she said.

Waldock said the helicopter pilots, with their night vision goggles interfering with their peripheral vision, may have wrongly focused on a plane that took off just before the collision. …”
 
Delta plane flipped over on landing in Toronto.

No fatalities. one critical injury
 
A Delta Air Lines flight arriving at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis appears to have overturned while landing on Monday afternoon, with photos across social media showing an airplane with its belly up on the tarmac.

The airport said on social media that all passengers and crew had been accounted for.

The airport said there had been “an incident upon landing involving a Delta Air Lines plane arriving from Minneapolis” and that emergency teams were responding.

Peel Region paramedics told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that eight people were injured.

The airport said earlier in the day that it was expecting “a busy day” after airlines were catching up after back-to-back snowstorms, including a weekend snowstorm that dumped more than eight inches of snow.

Temperatures in Toronto were expected to reach a high of only 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

The flight was operated by a Delta subsidiary, Endeavor Air, which typically runs smaller planes on shorter routes for its parent airline.

Endeavor’s fleet includes about 120 Bombardier CRJ-900’s, the type of plane involved in the crash on Monday. Those aircraft are configured with 70 or 76 seats.
 
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