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/2011/04/29/one-dead-in-plane-crash-near-sayward-b-c/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/29/one-dead-in-plane-crash-near-sayward-b-c/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:12:24 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3723 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/29/one-dead-in-plane-crash-near-sayward-b-c/feed/ 0 SAYWARD, B.C. – On April 27, a small aircraft en route from Bellingham, Washington to Alaska was reported missing after it was lost on air traffic control radar near Sayward B.C. A coordinated search with the RCMP, Canadian Coast Guard and the 442 Squadron Search and Rescue (SAR), CFB Comox was conducted and a crash site [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/27/plane-crash-located-in-yoho-national-park/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/27/plane-crash-located-in-yoho-national-park/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:25:30 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3720 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/27/plane-crash-located-in-yoho-national-park/feed/ 0 GOLDEN, B.C. – This afternoon at approximately 12:15 pm, the Golden RCMP were made aware of an overdue aircraft possibly in their area which was flying from Southern Alberta to the central interior of British Columbia. The last known location of the 180 Cessna Plane was near Mount Vaux in Yoho National Park. The [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/12/ntsb-investigating-wing-clipping-incident-at-jfk-airport/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/12/ntsb-investigating-wing-clipping-incident-at-jfk-airport/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:06:07 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3703 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/12/ntsb-investigating-wing-clipping-incident-at-jfk-airport/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a wing tip clipping that occurred between an Airbus A380 (F-HPJD) and a Bombardier CRJ-700 (N641CA) at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York last night. On April 11, 2011 at 8:25 PM EDT, preliminary reports indicate that the left wing tip of Air France flight [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/05/ntsb-investigates-united-airlines-incident-in-new-orleans/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/05/ntsb-investigates-united-airlines-incident-in-new-orleans/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:01:33 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3678 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/05/ntsb-investigates-united-airlines-incident-in-new-orleans/feed/ 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board has launched a team to investigate an incident involving a passenger jetliner in New Orleans. On April 4, 2011, at about 7:25 a.m. CDT, an Airbus 320-232 (N409UA), serial number 462, with 109 passengers and crew aboard, operating as United Airlines flight 497, exited the left side of [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/03/af-447-located-statement-by-pierre-henri-gourgeon-ceo-air-france/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/03/af-447-located-statement-by-pierre-henri-gourgeon-ceo-air-france/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:22:56 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3674 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/03/af-447-located-statement-by-pierre-henri-gourgeon-ceo-air-france/feed/ 0 ‘Air France has been informed by the BEA, the French Air Accident Investigation Bureau, that the Airbus A330 that crash-landed into the sea en route between Rio and Paris-Charles de Gaulle on 1 June 2009 has been located. This discovery, coming only days after the Air France and Airbus funded fourth sea search was launched, is [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/03/gulfstream-ids-4-killed-in-new-mexico-crash-of-test-flight/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/03/gulfstream-ids-4-killed-in-new-mexico-crash-of-test-flight/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:16:00 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3672 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/03/gulfstream-ids-4-killed-in-new-mexico-crash-of-test-flight/feed/ 0 SAVANNAH, Ga. – Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. today identified the four employees killed in the crash of a Gulfstream G650 during flight testing in Roswell, N.M. Experimental test pilots Kent Crenshaw and Vivan Ragusa and technical specialists David McCollum and Reece Ollenburg died in the April 2 accident. All four were residents of Savannah. “We mourn the loss [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/02/southwest-airlines-working-with-ntsb-faa-and-boeing-to-investigate-cause-of-depressurization-event/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/02/southwest-airlines-working-with-ntsb-faa-and-boeing-to-investigate-cause-of-depressurization-event/#comments Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:52:19 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3670 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/04/02/southwest-airlines-working-with-ntsb-faa-and-boeing-to-investigate-cause-of-depressurization-event/feed/ 0 DALLAS, TX – Southwest Airlines said early this morning it is working with the National Transportation Safety Board to determine the cause of a depressurization event during a Phoenix-Sacramento flight on Friday that diverted to Yuma, Ariz., for a successful emergency landing. Further, the carrier has decided to keep a subset of its Boeing 737 [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/28/coast-guard-responds-to-downed-helicopter-20-miles-off-miami/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/28/coast-guard-responds-to-downed-helicopter-20-miles-off-miami/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:10:39 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3658 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/28/coast-guard-responds-to-downed-helicopter-20-miles-off-miami/feed/ 0 MIAMI – The Coast Guard responded to a downed helicopter about 20 miles east of Miami Sunday. The Coast Guard received notification Sunday afternoon that a privately owned helicopter with one male passenger aboard made an emergency water landing between Miami and The Bahamas. The good Samaritan vessel Contingency arrived on scene first and stayed with the [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/23/cormorant-helicopter-evacuates-injured-skier-near-whistler/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/23/cormorant-helicopter-evacuates-injured-skier-near-whistler/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:05:38 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3643 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/23/cormorant-helicopter-evacuates-injured-skier-near-whistler/feed/ 0 19 WING COMOX – A Cormorant helicopter from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron, at 19 Wing Comox, was tasked late Tuesday night to evacuate an injured skier out of the back country on Whistler Mountain. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria received a request from the RCMP to assist in the evacuation of a group [...] http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/02/cf-tutor-incident-at-15-wing-moose-jaw/ http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/02/cf-tutor-incident-at-15-wing-moose-jaw/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:57:23 +0000 admin http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/?p=3607 http://www.flightsource.ca/blog/flightdeck/2011/03/02/cf-tutor-incident-at-15-wing-moose-jaw/feed/ 0 15 Wing Moose Jaw, Sask. – A CT-114 Tutor aircraft incurred damages upon landing at 15 Wing Moose Jaw at approximately 3 p.m. (Central time) Tuesday. The aircraft was completing a routine flight in the local area. Rescue crews and vehicles were on the scene shortly after the incident. Both pilots walked away from [...]