Air Safety #OTD by Francisco Cunha
@OnDisasters
Author of "IDN 1851 - The Santa Maria Air Disaster" as seen on NG Mayday - ACI; Tweets #OTD Safety Occurrences (Crashes/Incidents) and other aero miscellanea
🧵1/28 Thread about the preliminary report on the Air India B-787 crash, trying just to clear some info surrounding it since the accident took place, in line with a similar tweet from a few weeks ago⬇️⬇️
You could be forgiven this wasn´t a real ME-262. It is a replica, but who cares? What a sight 😍😍
262 Reasons why #Oshkosh2025 is the BEST 😎 📹F111Driver
@MCCCANM @Keg767 @miami_rick @InfantryPilot @F111Driver "……this isn't an issue with inadvertent manipulation of fuel control” “Inadvertent” can mean several things here Is FAA saying not spontaneous (ie commanded)? Or commanded AND NOT ACCIDENTAL cbc.ca/news/world/faa…
Load-sheet Launching! (Indigo 777 Captain Catches Paperwork from Ground Staff) A great video via moinsight98 on Instagram 📸 Commentary by Pete the Irish Pilot 🎙️ #aviation #IndiGo #Boeing777 #loadsheet #groundops #pilotlife #AvGeek #aviationvideos #flightprep #airline #India
it looked a lot more frightening inside than out !
CONTENT WARNING! "Cathay Pacific 747 landing in Kai Tak Porn"
when years of training comes together - Meeting the Russians - It was pretty rare to have 2 of us up - and it was a pure fluke it was FA the san flagship - I think we went down to 2 x Sky Flash due to some issue with take off weight or the fact it used up missile life , ?
Here is the accident report. asn.flightsafety.org/reports/2009/2… That bird had a lot of hours on it.
The school holidays have started, so have our Summer Camps! The inflatable slides seem to have gone down really well. Book fast, only one or two places left.
Bjorn’s Corner: Air Transport’s route to 2050. Part 32. Epilogue. dlvr.it/TM6CB1
I remember going to one at Topcliffe. Somewhere there’s a picture on me at the age of 7/8 sitting in a Jet Provost T3. I also remember seeing what I thought was a blue and a red Vulcan in a hangar and wondering why they were so small. It was many years before I realised I was…
Even if the year hadn't been mentioned, you could tell it's an older video. The passengers actually run away from the aircraft, as instructed. They don't all stop as soon as they're out of the plane to take selfies and make TikTok videos.
In the absence of more information, yes, but generally I don't like these attributions of pilot error versus technical failure. I took a leaf out of your book and prepared a thread in which I explain why. I hope to post it later today!
Yesterday: "Air France A320 aborts landing twice at Lisbon due to strong winds, before diverting to Faro". by ig/lisbon.airport.spotting
Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express have checked all 737s and 787s since 12/07 and they have found nothing since.
Couldn´t find more details: cabin appears to be from a Robinson helicopter. Regardless, a scary view of a bird strike: had the windshield broken, at that altitude, it would have been messy.
The pilot of this Diamond DA42 had a viral reminder of making a proper pre-flight inspection before departing.