http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:24:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/01/21/san-antonio-aerospace-faces-fine/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/01/21/san-antonio-aerospace-faces-fine/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:53:51 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3521 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/01/21/san-antonio-aerospace-faces-fine/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing a civil penalty of $1,025,000 against San Antonio Aerospace LP for violating the Department of Transportation’s Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing programs. The company was renamed ST Aerospace San Antonio in November 2009 and is a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Aerospace, Ltd.; however, the alleged violations occurred [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/08/16/ntsb-sending-team-to-assist-columbia-with-todays-737-accident/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/08/16/ntsb-sending-team-to-assist-columbia-with-todays-737-accident/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:49:19 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=2971 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/08/16/ntsb-sending-team-to-assist-columbia-with-todays-737-accident/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board is dispatching a team of investigators to assist the government of Columbia with its investigation of today’s airplane accident on San Andreas Island. At about 1:50 a.m. local time today, an Aires Airlines B737-700 (HK-4682), crashed during landing at the San Andreas Island airport. Flight #8250 originated [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/23/ntsb-chairman-highlights-runway-safety-and-human-fatigue-in-address-to-air-traffic-controllers/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/23/ntsb-chairman-highlights-runway-safety-and-human-fatigue-in-address-to-air-traffic-controllers/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:19:04 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=2033 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/23/ntsb-chairman-highlights-runway-safety-and-human-fatigue-in-address-to-air-traffic-controllers/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, DC – In an address to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association in Orlando today, NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman lauded controllers for their role in keeping the number of runway incursions low while challenging the Federal Aviation Administration to hasten the pace of its efforts to improve runway safety. Attributing the decline in runway [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/18/ntsb-says-northwest-pilots-distraction-led-to-overflight-of-minneapolis/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/18/ntsb-says-northwest-pilots-distraction-led-to-overflight-of-minneapolis/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:26:35 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=1999 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/18/ntsb-says-northwest-pilots-distraction-led-to-overflight-of-minneapolis/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that Northwest Airlines flight 188 overflew its destination airport of Minneapolis by more than 100 miles and failed to maintain radio communications because the pilots became distracted by a conversation unrelated to the operation of the aircraft. The NTSB’s accident brief, released today, also [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/09/study-shows-glass-cockpits-have-not-led-to-expected-safety-improvements/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/09/study-shows-glass-cockpits-have-not-led-to-expected-safety-improvements/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:14:16 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=1959 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/03/09/study-shows-glass-cockpits-have-not-led-to-expected-safety-improvements/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the National Transportation Safety Board adopted a study concluding that single engine airplanes equipped with glass cockpits had no better overall safety record than airplanes with conventional instrumentation. The safety study, which was adopted unanimously by the Safety Board, was initiated more than a year ago to determine if light [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/02/02/ntsb-finds-captain%e2%80%99s-actions-led-to-flight-3407-crash/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/02/02/ntsb-finds-captain%e2%80%99s-actions-led-to-flight-3407-crash/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:40:58 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=1610 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/02/02/ntsb-finds-captain%e2%80%99s-actions-led-to-flight-3407-crash/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, DC – The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the captain of Colgan Air flight 3407 inappropriately responded to the activation of the stick shaker, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which the airplane did not recover. In a report adopted today in a public Board meeting in Washington, additional flight crew [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/01/25/ntsb-to-assists-in-ethiopian-airlines-accident/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/01/25/ntsb-to-assists-in-ethiopian-airlines-accident/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:02:39 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=1527 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2010/01/25/ntsb-to-assists-in-ethiopian-airlines-accident/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, DC – The National Transportation Safety Board will dispatch an aviation investigator to assist the government of Lebanon in its investigation of the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines B- 737-800 (ET-ANB) off the coast of Lebanon. At approximately 2:30 a.m. local time on January 25, the aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff. NTSB [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/11/14/airplane-type-recommended-for-grounding-involved-in-another-fatal-accident/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/11/14/airplane-type-recommended-for-grounding-involved-in-another-fatal-accident/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:05:40 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=646 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/11/14/airplane-type-recommended-for-grounding-involved-in-another-fatal-accident/feed/ 0 An experimental airplane of the same series that the National Transportation Safety Board urged the Federal Aviation Administration to ground seven months ago, until a flight control problem could be corrected, was involved in another fatal accident last week. On November 6, 2009, a Zodiac CH-601XL, an experimental amateur-built airplane, was destroyed as a [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/10/26/northwest-188-investigation-update/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/10/26/northwest-188-investigation-update/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:28:50 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=311 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/10/26/northwest-188-investigation-update/feed/ 0 In its continuing investigation of an Airbus A320 that overflew the Minneapolis-St Paul International Wold-Chamberlain Airport (MSP), the National Transportation Safety Board has developed the following factual information: On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at 5:56 pm mountain daylight time, an Airbus A320, operating as Northwest Airlines (NWA) flight 188, became a NORDO (no radio [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/10/22/ntsb-investigating-landing-on-taxiway-in-atlanta/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/10/22/ntsb-investigating-landing-on-taxiway-in-atlanta/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:00:55 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=250 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2009/10/22/ntsb-investigating-landing-on-taxiway-in-atlanta/feed/ 0 The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the landing of a Delta B-767 on an active taxiway at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport (ATL). According to preliminary information received from several sources, on Monday, October 19, 2009, at 6:05 a.m. EDT, a Boeing B767-332ER (N185DN) operating as Delta Air Lines flight 60 from Rio de Janeiro to [...]