Hindsight is teaching Brazil some hard lessons. Some uncomfortable things are coming to light, like how the warning signs have been ignored. There’s a long trail of complaints about Brazilian aviation from the people in the system–(air traffic controllers, pilots, airport employees, etc.) that urgent major improvements were needed went ignored.
Airline safety relies on government-provided infrastructure. To put it simply, you can not skimp on airports. Things like long runways, grooved surfaces, overruns, planned SAFE approaches. Brazil dragging its feet is what killed nearly 200 people, no matter what the investigation says.
Airports need standards, and standards need to be enforced. Would the accident have happened on a longer runway that was properly surfaced? The pilots did NOT skid off the end of the runway. When they couldn’t stop, the pilots decided t get airborne again.
The mechanics of landing
When landing, a jet gets the main wheels onto the runway, which takes up 1000 or more feet of runway.
The pilot deploys the speed brake lever, then pulls the throttles into reverse thrust. This takes up runway at the rate of 200 feet per second.
So what happens when the jet brakes and the pilot realises it is too slick to stop? The pilot must get the engines back max power–was there adequate time and space for the Airbus to do this? Obviously not.
Are we following in Brazil’s footsteps?
The FAA is asking Congress to pawn off federal funding responsibilities for a national system through “user fees” (as our current FAA administrator has asked Congress to do).
Our amazing safety record comes from not skimping, not searching for cost-cutting measures. Will we continue to set the world safety standard or not? Only time will tell.
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A Lufthansa flight with 190 passengers on board made an emergency landing Monday in Rhodes after reporting smoke in the cabin, according to the operator of Greek regional airports, Fraport.
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While no one was injured, most of the mishaps required emergency landings or diversions. One safety expert said the incidents were not the result of “systemic problems.”
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In Latham, the governor honored upstate natives Casey Frankoski and John Grassia who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
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A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Dubai has been diverted to Rhodes where it landed just before 6 p.m. Monday.
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Shamiso Mosaka was removed from a flight by police officers after crew said she was being “abusive”.
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Articles and videos about Gila Bend Municipal Airport plane crash kills 1, injures another on FOX 10 Phoenix.
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US-based Deep Sea Vision, which claimed to have found Amelia Earhart’s long lost plane on the Pacific Ocean floor, says it will a use craft called a Hugin 6000 to hunt for the missing MH370 plane
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One person is dead and another is in serious condition following a small plane crash near Gila River Municipal Airport.
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One person died and another was injured following a plane crash Sunday morning at Gila Bend Municipal Airport.
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A DEEP sea exploration company has promised to send a state-of-the-art underwater drone to the bottom of the sea to finally solve the MH370 mystery. Over a decade ago, the Malaysian Airlines flight…
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Reba McEntire remembered her former bandmates and tour manager on the anniversary of the fatal plane crash that took their lives.
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ON March 17, 1957, a presidential plane crash at Mount Manunggal, the highest mountain peak in Cebu, Central Philippines, took the life of 50-year-old President Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay, the seventh president of the Philippines, and 25 others traveling with him.
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Last Wednesday the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was travelling on a Dassault 900LX, RAF aircraft which was attacked by electronic warfare in a jamming
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The plane landed safely, but it was the latest in a string of incidents for both United and the troubled airplane maker Boeing
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Less than a minute into the flight, one engine sputtered and then the next
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Aviation giant Boeing has been unable to stay out of the news for all the wrong reasons.
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