Flyertalk

JANUARY 30, 2025

On the evening of Wednesday, January 29, 2025, American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed with a U.S. Answers Could Lie with Air Traffic Control, Flight Data Recorders According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the incident occurred around 9 p.m. One answer could lie in the air traffic control personnel that night.

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Ask Captain Lim

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This question from Quora explores whether the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342 could have taken different actions to avoid the tragic collision. However, during final approach, we were instructed to switch to Runway 22L, a shorter runway typically used for departures.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

There is a lot more to gain from these NextGen services than just being able to see the location of thunderstorm cells on your iPad in flight, or noting the location of an airliner passing 10 miles in front of you. Until recently we had no other choice but to rely on ATC and Flight Service as the primary source of information.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 14, 2024

Fly Gaggle Airlines! As WFC President, he humbly suggested that I could legitimately use the callsign "Williamson One" with air traffic control. Final approach, runway 28, Block Island State Airport. Nonetheless, the forecast showed some promise and we launched as a group for the Little Island of the Gods.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 9, 2024

Closer in, we could see Boston Logan Airport with its characteristic two-legged control tower. How many times had I watched that distinctive tower slide past an airliner porthole window? One if by Land, Two if by Sea.Three if by Air? We continued inbound for downtown Boston, still flying the TOBIN route over US-1. How was it?"

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. When landing in the SFRA/FRZ, that code must be maintained until the airplane is on the ground. That cannot happen in the FRZ.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived.

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Jetwhine

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Rob __ In June 2023, the FAA published a 167-page document outlining the agencys desire to replace dozens of 40-year-old airport control towers with new environmentally friendly brick-and-mortar structures. Using HD cameras, controllers can zoom in on any given point within the cameras range, say an aircraft on final approach.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

2024, a Boeing 737-400 freighter operated by Swift Air of Spain on behalf of global logistics giant DHL crashed on final approach into Vilnius Airport (VNO) in Lithuania, the aircraft’s intended destination. The aircraft involved in the Vilnius incident was operated by Spanish all-cargo airline Swift Air under contract to DHL.

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NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

Alliance – An arrangement between a group of airlines agreeing to cooperate on a substantial level. Codeshare – a marketing arrangement in which an airline places its designator code on a flight operated by another airline , and sells tickets for that flight. AFFF – Aqueous Film-Forming Foam.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 52

Fear of Landing

JANUARY 31, 2025

Flight 5342 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Wichita, Kansas on final approach for runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). , Air Traffic Control and visual separation are generally more reliable at low altitudes. The previous fatal crash was Colgan Air flight 3407 in 2009.

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Cranky Flier

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I had to wait several days before even sitting down to think about writing about the crash of American Eagle flight 5342 operated by PSA Airlines. The initial shock gave way to anger as the government put forth one of the most absurd responses to an airline accident I’ve ever seen. There was also an eerie sense of familiarity.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Final Approach Approach 100

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 30, 2025

Last night, we saw the first fatal crash of a US airliner since 2009 , as a military helicopter collided with an American Eagle jet that was on final approach to Washington National Airport (DCA). Prior to this, US airlines carried well over 10 billion people across around 150 million flights without a fatal crash.

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