The tragic incident occurred on May 19, 2024 when the A320, bound for Manas International Airport (FRU) in Bishkek, began taxiing prematurely.

Disturbing footage of the moment this happened was captured and uploaded to several social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter).

The footage shows the airport worker, identified as Rail, aged 32, standing under the 77-ton A320. The plane can be seen taxiing while Rail is still underneath the aircraft. 

鈥淲hile taxiing from the aircraft parking lot, the technician suffered a leg injury,鈥� a spokesperson for Ural Airlines told . 鈥淎n ambulance was called to the scene, and the circumstances are being clarified.鈥�

The aircraft精东影业 pilot was removed from the flight, and after a three and a half hour delay, the plane left for Bishkek.

According to The Sun, the pilot, who is yet to be identified, has been interrogated and was found to be in violation of safety rules that resulted in serious harm to health through negligence.

Meanwhile, the airport worker in question required emergency amputation surgery, and is still reported to be unconscious.听

Hong Kong airport ground worker accidentally killed by aircraft being towed

• Airport
• Aviation Safety

byJean Carmela Lim

2024-02-06

The unfortunate incident, which appears to have happened sometime within May 13-15, 2024 was captured on video and has been shared on various social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter).

In the video clip, the worker appears to have concluded aircraft checks and steps out of the aircraft, where a stepladder had been placed. However, he is not facing the steps when he exits, seemingly presuming that the stepladder is still in position. 

Coincidentally, other ground workers pulled the stepladder away from the plane the moment the man steps, and the gap sends him plummeting down the ground to the tarmac. 

According to various social media posts, the incident occurred in Jakarta精东影业 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK), and fortunately, the worker did not sustain life-threatening injuries.

A Fly Guy精东影业 Cabin Crew Lounge, a Facebook group for aviation professionals with over a million followers, has called out for more 鈥渟ituational awareness鈥� at work to prevent such accidents from happening.

Man arrested on SYD airport tarmac after trying to jump into plane cargo hold

• Airport

byJean Carmela Lim

2024-04-29

The accident occurred during the morning of May 13, 2024 when the pilot精东影业 T-6A Texan II aircraft ejection seat activated during ground operations at Sheppard Air Force Base near Wichita Falls, Texas.

The pilot has been identified by Sheppard Air Force Base as Captain John Robertson of the 80th Operations Support Squadron.

In a statement released by the Air Force Base, acting wing commander Colonel Mitchell J. Cok said: “This is a devastating loss for Captain Robertson’s family and loved ones, and for the entire 80th Flying Training Wing.” 

“Captain Robertson was a highly valued Airman and instructor pilot. Our deepest condolences go with all who knew and loved him,” Cok added.

Cok also expressed gratitude for those who responded to the incident:

“We are thankful for the M1 maintenance team who immediately provided life-sustaining care, and for the heroic efforts of the security forces, fire and medical personnel here on base and at United Regional Hospital. Their efforts allowed time for Captain Robertson’s family to be at his side when he passed.”

According to Sheppard Air Force Base, an interim safety board investigation was convened immediately following the incident, and a full Air Force Safety Investigation Board is expected to take place. The base has said that the board will release the report once the investigation is complete. 

Unfortunately, this is not the first time that a pilot has died due to an ejection seat activating on the ground. 

In 2011, Martin-Baker Aircraft, an ejection seat firm, admitted breaching health and safety laws over the death of a Red Arrows pilot who was ejected unexpectedly from his jet while it was on the ground at RAF Scampton. 

The pilot, an Iraqi war veteran, had been carrying out pre-flight safety checks in his Hawk T1 jet when the seat fired.

US temporarily grounds most of its F-35s over ejection seat issues

• Defense

byValius Venckunas

2022-08-01

Squadron leader Asim Jawad, 32, was performing aileron rolls at low altitude when the fuselage of the Yakovlev Yak-130 he was flying scraped along the tarmac.

An aileron roll is an aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft does a full 360-degree revolution about its longitudinal axis.

Jawad and his co-pilot Wing Commander Sohan Hasan Khan both ejected from the aircraft before landing in a river. Both were rushed to a hospital, but Jawad later succumbed to his injuries at around 12:30 local time.

The harrowing incident was caught on CCTV and was posted to X (formerly Twitter).

The 35-second video clip shows the fighter jet flying close to the tarmac while doing aileron rolls. The aircraft can be seen flying increasingly lower while rotating, until the fuselage hits the tarmac. 

The Yakovlev Yak-130 is a subsonic two-seat advanced jet trainer and light combat aircraft originally developed by Yakovlev and Aermacchi. The aircraft arrived in Bangladesh in 2015.

Top 10 Hollywood myths about fighter jets

• Aviation Top 10s

byValius Venckunas

2021-10-14

The AAIB also announced it received 790 occurrence notifications, compared to 778 in 2022, and opened 25 field investigations – a further 80 investigations were opened through correspondence. 

The AAIB said that while the number of deaths was not unusual, they all occurred in the summer months.  

None of the fatal accidents in the UK involved large-scale passenger or freight operations and were all centered around 鈥楪eneral Aviation鈥�.听聽

The 10 fatal accidents included seven light aircraft, two gliders and one hot air balloon. 

The predominant factor in these fatal accidents was loss of control in flight which 鈥渦sually resulted from low speed near to the ground and the aircraft stalling leading to an incipient or fully developed spin鈥�.   

鈥淚n 2023 there were 10 fatal air accidents in the UK resulting in 11 deaths. All involved General Aviation. Whilst this number of fatal accidents was not unusual, they all occurred in the summer months and the fatal glider mid-air collision was the first for nine years,鈥� said Crispin Orr, Chief Inspector of Air Accidents. 

Orr added: 鈥淟oss of control in flight continues to be the prevalent cause of fatal accidents. The key safety messages to avoid loss of control have been reinforced in revised promotional materials published by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).鈥澛�

Commercial Air Transport incidents

According to the AAIB精东影业 report the most common accidents involving Commercial Air Transport (CAT) in the UK (and globally) during 2023 were non-fatal runway excursions, ground collisions and tail-strikes. 

The AAIB said that 鈥渟erious incidents rarely attract much media attention but are a valuable opportunity to identify safety issues before they become manifest in an accident鈥�.   

鈥淥ver the last 20 years, two-thirds of the CAT field investigations conducted by the AAIB were into Incidents and Serious Incidents rather than Accidents, with a high proportion yielding Safety Recommendations that have proved to be highly significant in further improving air transport safety,鈥� Orr concluded. 

The AAIB also provided support to 48 new overseas investigations where there was a UK interest.听

You can read the full report on the website.

鈥楳issing鈥� Titan Airways A321 windows caused by high power film lights: AAIB

• Airlines
• Aviation Safety

byIan Molyneaux

2023-11-03

That精东影业 the official findings based on a report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, released on March 7, 2024.

The accident occurred on November 27, 2024, when a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 aircraft (registration C-GYUA, serial number 1553), operated by Thunder Airlines, was flying from Thunder Bay Airport (CYQT), Ontario, to Sault Ste. Marie Airport (CYAM), Ontario. 

Operating as flight THU890, it included a stop at Wawa Aerodrome (CYXZ), Ontario, to pick up a patient for a medical transfer to CYAM airport.

The report said that as part of its pre-flight preparations, the flight crew contacted CYXZ Airport to check the runway conditions. During the communication, the flight crew learned that there was ongoing snowfall at the airport, but understood that the runway would be plowed by 07:30 local time.

According to the report, it had snowed overnight and crew at CYXZ Airport were aware of the arrival of THU890 but had not yet plowed the runway. 

As the aircraft approached CYXZ Airport, the flight crew saw that the runway was covered in snow, but were not aware that it was about 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) deep.

The report said that when the aircraft touched Runway 03 at 07:39 local time, it began sliding to the right. 

鈥淭he flight crew attempted to correct this using rudder pedals, as well as differential propeller and power control, but were unsuccessful. The aircraft rotated almost 180掳 before sliding off the runway精东影业 right side,鈥� the report said.

The Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 aircraft continued sliding sideways off the runway while facing the opposite direction of landing. Eventually, they came to rest on its left side in a drainage ditch, about 78 feet from the runway精东影业 edge. 

The report said that the aircraft was extensively damaged; the right engine propeller blades penetrated the cabin before the engines were shut down.

The three occupants of the aircraft鈥搕wo pilots and a paramedic, managed to evacuate using the aircraft精东影业 main door. They were all assessed by emergency medical services and then transported to the local hospital for examination of minor injuries.

鈥淭he investigation determined that there was a miscommunication between the flight crew and the aerodrome staff with respect to when the runway would be plowed. The flight crew believed that the runway would be plowed before their arrival, but the aerodrome staff only planned to have the runway plowed by 0900,鈥� the said.

United B777 loses tire shortly after takeoff, tire crashed into cars: video

• Airlines
• Aviation Safety

byJean Carmela Lim

2024-03-08

Overall, the IATA report, released on February 29, 2024, reflected an incredible year for safety around the world with several areas seeing their 鈥渂est ever鈥� results.听

This is against the backdrop of 37 million aircraft movements in 2023 for both passenger jet and turboprop aircraft and represents an increase of 17% when compared against 2022.  

While there were no passenger jet fatal accidents or hull losses in 2023, a Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop crash did sadly result in the loss of 72 people on January 15, 2023.听聽

Key safety findings聽

The all accident rate was 0.80 per million sectors in 2023 (one accident for every 1.26 million flights), an improvement from 1.30 in 2022 and the lowest rate in over a decade.   

The fatality risk improved to 0.03 in 2023 from 0.11 in 2022 – at this level of safety, the average person would have to fly every day for 103,239 years before they had a fatal accident. 

“2023 safety performance continues to demonstrate that flying is the safest mode of transport. Aviation places its highest priority on safety and that shows in the 2023 performance. Jet operations saw no hull losses or fatalities. 2023 also saw the lowest fatality risk and 鈥榓ll accident鈥� rate on record,鈥� Willie Walsh, IATA精东影业 Director General, said.  

However, Walsh said that the Yeti Airlines tragedy reminds everyone in aviation that they can never take 鈥渟afety for granted鈥�. 

Walsh also commented on both the Alaska Airlines plug door incident on January 5, 2024, and the Japan Airlines crash on January 2, 2024, where a landing A350 struck a Coast Guard plane in Tokyo.听聽

Extraordinary daylight images of the burnt wreckage of the Japan Airlines A350 鈥� which was flaming for around three hours.

Crucially, in the immediate aftermath of the collision, the fire seemed to be contained in the left wing area due to firewalls made of materials which鈥�

— Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir)

鈥淭wo high profile accidents in the first month of 2024 show that, even if flying is among the safest activities a person can do, there is always room to improve. This is what we have done throughout our history. And we will continue to make flying ever safer,鈥� Walsh added.听

Additional insights聽

The 2023 all accident rate improved in all regions in 2023 compared to 2022, with the exception of North America and Asia-Pacific. While all regions except Asia-Pacific recorded a fatality risk of zero in 2023. 

In both North America and Europe, the largest proportion of accidents in 2023 were related to landing gear collapses. 

In Africa, the all accident rate improved from 10.88 per million sectors in 2022 to 6.38 in 2023. 

In the Middle East and North Africa, the all accident rate improved from 1.30 accidents per million sectors in 2022 to 1.16 in 2023 

Europe has had a fatality risk of zero since 2018.听 聽

Yeti Airlines ATR 72 crash in Nepal kills at least 40 people

• Civil Aviation

byClement Charpentreau

2023-01-15

In an email statement sent to 精东影业, Airport Authorities Hong Kong (AAHK) said airport authorities received a report around 03:00 local time on February 6, 2024, stating that a China Aircraft Services staff member had been found lying on a taxiway. 

Emergency crews arrived at the scene and pronounced the man dead.

After initial investigations, it is believed that the man was riding in the passenger seat of a tow truck when he fell out of the vehicle and was hit by the plane being pulled behind.

According to AAHK, it is suspected that the seat belt was left unfastened while the staff member was working on the tractor and police have classified the incident as a traffic accident.

A Channel News Asia report said police have arrested the vehicle’s 60-year-old driver on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death.

The airport said it is facilitating investigations, which are underway. 

鈥淎AHK expresses sorrow over the death of the airport staff, and extends its condolences to his family. AAHK has contacted the concerned ground services company to follow up on providing assistance to the deceased精东影业 family,鈥� the airport said.听

Rex Airlines ground crew has barbecue on tarmac at Brisbane Airport: video

• Civil Aviation

byEmilia Stankeviciute

2023-11-09

Background

On January 8, 1989, British Midland Flight 92 was a scheduled passenger service flying from London-Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Belfast International Airport (BFS) in Northern Ireland. The flight was operated by a Boeing 737-400 that had only been delivered factory-fresh to the airline in October 1988 – less than three months earlier. 

The United Kingdom (UK), as well as the rest of the world, was still in shock following the loss of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland just three weeks previously. No one would have expected to see another fatal accident involving a passenger airliner in the UK in such quick succession.   

The aircraft involved, registered G-OBME, had undertaken its first flight on October 6, 1988, from the Boeing final assembly facility located in Renton, Washington. The plane was the first of eight 737-400s to be acquired by British Midland and was equipped with a pair of CFM International CFM56 turbofan engines. 

Delivered to the airline just nine days after its first flight, the aircraft was configured in an all-economy layout featuring 156 seats and had been operating for British Midland for just 12 weeks at the time of the crash. The aircraft was destroyed in the accident that befell Flight 92 and was subsequently written off. At the time of the accident, the airframe had accumulated just 521 flying hours in total. 

The crew of Flight 92 had a combined total of around 16,500 flight hours, including approximately 1,000 in the 737. The aircraft itself had already made one uneventful round-trip flight between London and Belfast earlier that day. The flight had 118 passengers and eight crew members onboard 鈥� two pilots and six cabin crew. 

Flight 92 departed Heathrow at 19:52 local time for its hour-long flight to Belfast. The aircraft was in the process of climbing to its intended cruising altitude of 35,000 feet when passing through 28,000 feet, the outer panel of one of the fan blades in the plane’s left hand (number 1) engine detached.  

This event caused significant vibration throughout the airframe and a sudden 鈥渁udible pounding noise鈥� in the passenger cabin. Those seated towards the rear of the cabin also reported seeing sparks and smoke emanating from the failed, left-hand engine and a burning smell. Shortly afterward, smoke began entering the cabin via the aircraft精东影业 air conditioning vents.  

However, upon misreading the engine instruments in the flight deck, the pilots believed that it was the right-hand (number 2) engine that had been damaged, and subsequently throttled it back to reduce the vibrations.  

Upon the engine failure and following immediate emergency actions, the flight crew radioed the company精东影业 operations department for further advice. It was agreed that Flight 92 should make an emergency diversion to East Midlands Airport (EMA) in Leicestershire. The airport not only happened to be close to the company精东影业 headquarters but also the site of its primary UK maintenance base. Conveniently, the airport was almost directly under the aircraft精东影业 flight path to Belfast that evening.听聽

Flight 92 was cleared for an approach to runway 27 at East Midlands. However, having commenced its descent into East Midlands and with the aircraft精东影业 airspeed decaying, the Ground Proximity Warning Syste m (GPWS) in the flight deck issued several aural ‘glideslope’ warnings, indicating that the plane had deviated below the glideslope for runway 27.  

At just 900 feet, 2.4nm from the runway threshold, the (already damaged) left-hand engine suddenly suffered a decrease in power. As the airspeed fell below 125 knots, the stick shaker activated indicating to the pilots the imminent onset of a stall.   

Impact and aftermath

At 20:24 and traveling at 115 knots, the aircraft’s rear fuselage, tail, and landing gear struck trees on the eastern bank of the M1 motorway 鈥� one of the busiest in the UK. The plane then bounced back into the air and impacted the rising ground on the western embankment of the motorway. The aircraft immediately broke into three sections on impact, having landed almost 2,950ft (900 meters) short of the runway. 

With such violent horizontal forces acting upon the passenger cabin in the impact, 39 passengers died instantly, while a further eight succumbed to their injuries following the crash landing. Fortuitously, there were no injuries or fatalities to anyone driving on the motorway at the time of the crash. Indeed, the proximity of the motorway provided excellent access for the emergency services that quickly arrived at the scene. 

In addition to the 47 immediate fatalities in the crash, 74 of the remaining 79 passengers and crew suffered serious injuries. Both pilots survived, although the first officer suffered life-changing injuries. The crash became one of the UK’s deadliest air disasters and remains the UK精东影业 last fatal accident involving a UK-registered passenger airliner.  

Investigation and findings 

The was published by the UK精东影业 Air Accident Investigation Branch in August 1990. The investigation and subsequent report attributed the cause of the accident to pilot error.  

The AAIB investigators discovered that despite the failure of the left-hand engine, the crew had throttled back and then subsequently shut down the serviceable right-hand engine. Having reduced the airframe vibrations by taking this action, the pilots believed they had dealt with the engine issue appropriately. However, they had inexplicably shut down the one serviceable engine and were erroneously relying on the failed left-hand engine to get them safely to East Midlands.   

It transpired that the right-hand engine in previous 737 variants flown by both pilots supplied the air used for the passenger cabin’s air conditioning system. Given the reports of smoke in the cabin from cabin crew members, the pilots decided to shut down the engine that they believed corresponded to this airflow. 

However, unknown to the pilots was that Boeing had redesigned the air conditioning system on the 737-400 to use bleed air from both engines for the air conditioning. Exacerbating the issue was that although passengers had seen sparks and smoke from the left-hand engine, this vital information was never relayed to the pilots.  

According to the AAIB report, the crew had 鈥渞eacted to the initial engine problem prematurely and in a way that was contrary to their training.鈥� Additionally, the pilots also failed to 鈥渁ssimilate the indications on the engine instrument display before shutting down the healthy engine.鈥�  

The report also stated that when the first officer was asked by the captain which engine was causing the trouble, he responded: 鈥淚t精东影业 the le 鈥� it精东影业 the right one.鈥� The captain responded by saying 鈥淥K, throttle it back.鈥� 

While many of those on board Flight 92, including three members of the cabin crew, had witnessed flames from the left-hand engine, no one had informed the pilots. This was despite the captain making a cabin announcement explaining (albeit erroneously) that the fault lay with the right-hand engine. The AAIB report called this 鈥渆xtremely unfortunate鈥�. 

Remarkably, the damaged left-hand engine continued to provide limited thrust until the aircraft was just under three miles from the runway threshold. But as the pilots called for an increase in power from the damaged engine on short finals, it also failed, leaving no time to try to restart the right-hand serviceable (but shut down) engine. 

With the aircraft struggling to fly on just one damaged engine at this critical phase of flight, the left-hand engine was now unable to supply sufficient forward thrust to sustain flight and the aircraft stalled, leading to the impact with the motorway embankment. 

Improvements implemented following Flight 92 

The accident involving British Midland Flight 92 led to several recommendations for both operators of the 737-400 and the wider global airline industry.

Almost immediately following the accident, Boeing issued amendments to the 737-400 operations manual issued to all pilots qualified on the type. These changes related to the aircraft精东影业 air conditioning system as well as emergency procedures when diagnosing a possible engine failure. 

Other recommendations also focused on pilot training with more emphasis on better coordination between cabin crew and those in the flight deck. The AAIB report also recommended improvements to the standard 鈥渂race鈥� emergency position to be assumed by passengers, as well as the need to highlight the brace position diagrams on the emergency cards provided to each passenger and during the passenger safety briefing. 

Additional recommendations made by the AAIB included the need for more frequent engine inspections, and more robust overhead stowage bins, as many of these had become dislodged during the impact causing severe head trauma among many of the fatally injured passengers.  

Lastly, the report called for air traffic controllers and pilots to always use a separate radio frequency when dealing with an aircraft emergency. 

One recommendation which has not led to change was for 鈥渁ft-facing passenger seats鈥�. Although this had once been a common feature on early passenger aircraft, the concept has not been widely revived following the accident involving Flight 92 as many might have hoped.听

Singapore Airlines A350 squawks 7700 after missed approaches at MAN airport

• Airlines
• Aviation Safety

byJean Carmela Lim

2024-01-25

According to local police, 13 people went up in the hot air balloon on January 14, 2024, where eight members of the group skydived from the gondola.听聽

The pilot and four others remained behind and at around 7:50 am local time 鈥渟omething catastrophic happened鈥� and the hot air balloon crashed to the ground. 

“What we know at this point is the skydivers were able to exit the balloon without incident and completed their planned skydiving event, and then shortly thereafter something catastrophic happened with the balloon causing it to crash to the ground,” Eloy Police Chief Byron Gwaltney said during a press conference. 

The Eloy Police Department confirmed in a statement that four of those onboard the hot air balloon had died, and another was airlifted to a hospital in Phoenix. 

It is understood that one person died at the scene of the crash and the three other victims passed away at Casa Grande Medical Center. 

Representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) were at the scene and took over the investigation from Eloy police.  

“The Eloy Police Department extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of those involved in this heartbreaking incident,” .听

Alaska Airlines to enhance quality control checks on Boeing 737-9 MAX production

• Airlines
• Aviation Safety

byGabriele Petrauskaite

2024-01-14