Air Safety
# air-safety - Sunday 14 October, 2012
Why was a Boeing 727 deliberately crashed in desert?
Experiment for Discovery Channel aims to understand what it takes to survive an air crash.
# air-safety - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
The 9 at 9: Tuesday
Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you start your day.
# air-safety - Friday 4 November, 2011
Qantas flight makes emergency landing after engine trouble
One of the A380′s four engines shut down during the flight from Singapore to London, forcing it to land in Dubai.
# air-safety - Friday 14 October, 2011
Sharp increase in errors by US air traffic controllers, says watchdog
A US government report says that mistakes at facilities handling air traffic approaches and departures almost doubled over three years.
# air-safety - Sunday 17 July, 2011
Shannon airport reopens following incident
No one was injured in the earlier incident involving an Aer Lingus Regional flight.
Shannon Airport closed following technical failure on Aer Arann plane
A technical incident involving an Aer Arann plane, which had landed safely, will see Shannon shut until 4pm.
# air-safety - Thursday 26 May, 2011
Untrained wife flies plane to safety after pilot husband takes ill
A wife with no flying experience is given radio guidance by other pilots after her husband developed breathing problems.
# air-safety - Tuesday 24 May, 2011
BA flight to Boston stops in Shannon following ‘technical fault’
A transatlantic flight from London to Boston is forced to land at Shannon, and is set to take off again this morning.
# air-safety - Friday 29 April, 2011
The 9 at 9: Friday
Nine things you need to know by 9am: President McAleese gives France and Germany a slap on the wrists, the poignant tale of an elderly man who arrived in hospital with a small fortune strapped to his body and the story of Bear-ack Obama.
# air-safety - Tuesday 26 April, 2011
Report vindicates aviation authorities over ash cloud flight cancellations
The ash cloud from Iceland’s (still unpronounceable) Eyjafjallajökull volcano could have caused engines to fail and seriously scratched up windows.
# air-safety - Wednesday 20 April, 2011
New air traffic control rules after Michelle Obama’s plane aborts landing
Flight carrying US first lady was forced to abort a landing after air traffic controllers mistakenly allowed the place come too close to a military plane.
# air-safety - Tuesday 19 April, 2011
US air traffic controller caught watching DVD on the job
The air traffic controller in question accidentally broadcast the Samuel L Jackson film he was watching over his microphone, blocking incoming calls from planes.
# air-safety - Thursday 14 April, 2011
US aviation chief resigns after air traffic controllers fall asleep on job
Aviation watchdog has ordered that staff double up on graveyard shifts after series of incidents in which controllers were “unresponsive”.
# air-safety - Tuesday 5 April, 2011
American aviation authority demands inspection of all older Boeing jets
The FAA’s order comes as Southwest Airlines finishes inspecting its entire fleet after a panel burst open mid-flight.
# air-safety - Monday 4 April, 2011
Southwest cancels 100 flights as cracks found in three planes
After a hole appears – mid-flight – in the roof of one plane, checks show at least three jets with structural problems.
# air-safety - Monday 20 December, 2010
Pilots’ hours to be limited in new EU law
European safety agency puts forward plans to cap pilot’s duty hours – that’s both flying and waiting time – to a maximum of 14 hours a day, or 12 at night. Pilots’ unions say that is still an exhausting schedule.
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