ValuJet 592 to Power Banks: What You Cannot Take on a Plane
Share this story The shipping ticket said “Oxy Cannisters — ‘Empty’.” The spelling was wrong and so was the word in quotation marks. There were five cardboard boxes, each weighing 45 to 50 pounds, and they were loaded into the forward...
El Al Flight 1862: The 747 That Lost Two Engines Over Amsterdam
Share this story Thirty-four years ago tonight, a little after half past six, a Boeing 747 freighter fell out of the sky over Amsterdam and into a block of flats. El Al Flight 1862 had taken off from Schiphol just over thirteen minutes earlier. Both engines on its...
FAA Rules Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Is Not a Safety Concern
Share this story A week ago it was the glitch that froze the Boeing 737 MAX 10’s certification. On Friday, 2 October 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration decided it was not a safety problem after all. A panel of FAA safety experts concluded that a software...
London City and Key West: What Fits on a 5,000-Foot Runway
Share this story Key West International sits three feet above the Atlantic. Its single runway, 09/27, is 5,076 feet long and 100 feet wide, and there is an engineered arrestor bed at each end because there is nowhere else for an aeroplane to go. Airliners land there...
Air Serbia A320 Clipped by easyJet Sharklet at Paris CDG
Share this story The Air Serbia jet was doing everything right. It had landed at Paris Charles de Gaulle on the evening of Friday, 2 October 2026, and was standing still on the apron, waiting for instructions from air traffic control. Then an easyJet Airbus taxied...
Gulfstream G100 Air Ambulance Lost Off Nantucket With Six on Board
Share this story It was meant to be a routine night run: a patient, a family member and a four-person medical crew, flying from Bermuda to Boston in a small twin-engine jet. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, 3 October 2026, the Gulfstream G100 air ambulance lifted...
Ram Air Turbine Explained: The Emergency Propeller on Your Jet
Share this story Every airliner and many military jets carry a small propeller that the passengers hope never to see. It sits folded inside the fuselage or a wing fairing, and it only comes out on the worst day of a crew’s career: when every engine-driven...
KLM’s First Airbus A350 Lands: PH-ZNA “De Nachtwacht”
Share this story KLM’s long-haul future touched down at Schiphol on Friday afternoon, 2 October. Airbus A350-900 PH-ZNA, named “De Nachtwacht” after Rembrandt’s Night Watch, landed in Amsterdam after a delivery flight from Toulouse, the first...
Boeing SPEEA Contract Ratified: Engineer Strike Averted
Share this story Boeing can breathe out. On 1 October, members of SPEEA, the union that represents the company’s engineers and technical workers, voted to accept new four-year contracts, ending the threat of a strike that could have begun the following week. It...
NTSB: Miami Tower Never Gave the Amazon 767 Crew the Wind
Share this story The tower told the Amazon jet it was cleared to land. It did not tell the crew what the wind was doing. Four minutes earlier, on another frequency, controllers had passed the gusts to someone else. That is one of the central findings in the National...
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