Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

However, as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, the footage appears to show the aircraft making little attempt to arrest its rate of descent or initiate a flare by raising its nose to bleed off any excess airspeed before it touches down. It departed LAX at 16:06 local time and landed in Frankfurt at 11:14 the following morning.

Runway 284

Runway Air Traffic Control Threshold Descent 284

Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet. While the aircraft was flying at a ground speed of 453 knots (about 840 kilometers per hour), countless hailstones battered the fuselage, engines, and cockpit windows. There were 173 passengers and 6 crew on board.

Airlines 83

Airlines Airline Cockpit Weather 83

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway. Rescue crews extracted her from the plane.

Knot 84

Knot Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 84

Air Facts

JUNE 12, 2024

After take off, the air traffic controller seemed to know our special purpose when he gave us a non standard heading to fly and canceled our usual immediate climb requirement. Up in the cockpit we could hear Joe ‘s friend start to strum his base fiddle and a then a ukulele and many voices joined in.

Air Traffic Control 93

Air Traffic Control Descent Runway Thrust 93

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway. Rescue crews extracted her from the plane.

Knot 52

Knot Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 52

Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

In reality, FAA has broken its own “sterile cockpit” rule, and unless the mature and experienced voices in the room stand up for reason and the cold, hard rules of aviating, navigating, and communicating, the system will continue its “graveyard spiral” to the inevitable consequences. It’s not a social science laboratory.

Clearance 40

Clearance Pilot Weather Approach 40

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

If the fuselage is breached, that squeezed-together air rushes out. The pilots will don oxygen masks and take the plane to a lower altitude in what we call, plainly enough, an “emergency descent.” It’s hard to know, but I imagine the cockpit crew was quite busy. Rarely are decompressions deadly.

Descent 52

Descent Tail Air Traffic Control Pilot 52