Superb work by the pilots and their air traffic... controllers, dealing with a backfiring engine on takeoff. Heavy plane full of fuel, low cloud thunderstorms, repeated compressor stalls. Calm, competent, professional - well done! Details: Air Canadashow more

JUST IN 🔴 Preliminary findings into last month’s Air... India Flight AI171 crash suggests the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s pilots turned off fuel flow switches, causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff, with no indication of aircraft issues so far, according to WSJ.show more

Bolivian investigators are probing yesterday’s crash of a Cessna... 550 Citation Bravo registered CP-3243. The aircraft lost contact with air traffic control about 30 minutes after takeoff and orbited for 2 hours before crashing. Sadly both pilots were killed.show more

Footage has emerged of a plane colliding with a... fire truck in New York At LaGuardia Airport, an Air Canada passenger aircraft hit a fire truck on the runway during landing. The nose of the plane was severely damaged. Both pilots were killed. Around 40 people, including passengers and crew, were injured, some of them seriously.show more

At a New York airport, an Air Canada plane... collided with a ground vehicle during landing, killing two pilots. The incident happened on the runway as the plane was landing and the vehicle was moving toward another plane. There were 72 passengers and four crew members onboard. 41 people were hospitalized. The airport was temporarily closed.show more

Video shows the moment a Swiss International Air Lines... A330 was forced to abort its takeoff at Boston Logan Airport following an engine failure on Tuesday. Swiss International Airlines confirmed a problem with the right engine during takeoff. It issued a statement apologizing for the incident and says an investigation into the exact nature of the engine problem is underway. The FAA said in a statement, "The crew of SWISS Flight 55 stopped their takeoff at Boston Logan International Airport due to engine issues around 6:25 p.m. local time on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The FAA briefly paused some arrivals to the airport before the plane taxied off the runway. The FAA will investigate." Video: Boston 25 News/loganinflightshow more

NEW: New video footage captures the moment an Air... Canada jet and a fire truck collided at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Here is what we know: - The plane’s two pilots sadly died. - 41 passengers and crew members were taken to the hospital. - Audio from the air traffic tower suggests the controllers may have been distracted by an earlier incident at the airport, according to the New York Times. - Two officers in the fire truck were injured. - This is the first fatal accident at LaGuardia Airport since 1992. - Passenger Jack Cabot says: “The plane landed pretty hard, you heard a loud bang and suddenly everything was out of control. The plane was veering back and forth. No one was driving at that point.”show more

New footage shows the moment a United Airlines plane... collided with a light pole and a truck while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Boeing 767 was traveling at about 160 mph when it made contact. Air traffic controllers say there was a hole in the side of the plane and damage to the tire following the incident. The man driving the truck, Warren Boardley of Baltimore, suffered minor injuries.show more

Two sources confirm to CBS News that one air... traffic control worker was managing the helicopters and planes, a job normally done by two people when an American Airlines plane collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night.show more

Another high-value target destroyed: drone pilots from the 79th... Air Assault Brigade eliminated a Russian BM-21 Grad with a full load of rockets near Malynivka, east of Myrnohrad. Timely intel and precise drone work stopped the strike before it began.show more

Crazy footage shows the moment Pilot Eladio Marquez crashed... his Cessna 335 into a warehouse that was hosting an event for autistic children. Marquez and his passenger lost their lives in the crash as their plane burst into a fiery blaze, forcing children and their mentors to flee the warehouse. The incident occurred in 2018, with the aircraft bound for an airpark in the north Florida town of Hilliard. However, just seconds after takeoff, they reported a fire in the left engine. Despite their attempt to return safely to the grass strip, they were unable to do so. The pilot is reported as telling air traffic control: 'We're losing power in our left engine, we turning right back.'show more

NEW: Air Canada plane executes an emergency landing and... skids off the runway in Halifax during a suspected landing gear issue. The incident came within hours as 179 people were killed when a Boeing 737-800 crashed in South Korea. “The plane started to sit at about a 20-degree angle to the left and, as that happened, we heard a pretty loud, what almost sounded like a crash sound, as the wing of the plane started to skid along the pavement, along with what I presume was the engine,” a passenger told CBC News. The Air Canada flight landed with zero fatalities, only minor injuries. Both incidents had apparent landing gear failure.show more

On this day, at approximately 08:09:05 UTC, Air India... Flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 (VT-ANB) bound for London Gatwick, crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025. The aircraft struck a student hostel just 32 seconds after liftoff. The disaster claimed the lives of 241 of the 242 people onboard, as well as 19 people on the ground, marking the first fatal crash and hull loss of a Boeing 787 in history. According to the preliminary report, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF one second apart. The cockpit voice recorder captured one pilot asking the other why he had cut off the fuel, to which the other pilot replied that he had not done so.show more

The fire on engine #1 was catastrophic.. an uncontained... failure that sent debris flying uncontrollably... but the real killer was the immediate compressor stall on #2, visible right here in the footage as that telltale puff of flame. This almost certainly resulted from Foreign Object Debris (FOD) ingestion, where fragments from #1's explosion were sucked into #2's intake, disrupting airflow and surging the compressor blades. Watch the sudden yaw to the left post-stall: that's the asymmetric thrust kicking in, with only engine #3 (tail-mounted) left producing power. For a fully loaded MD-11 like UPS Flight 2976, heavy with cargo and fuel for its route, climbing out on a single engine was impossible.. performance data shows these birds need at least two for safe ascent under max takeoff weight.Pilots did everything by the book; ATC audio suggests they declared emergency instantly. No procedural tweak could've changed this outcome. RIP to the three lost on board, thoughts with the injured ground personnel.show more

The 14 second ATC communication audio clip shows the... nature of urgency, seconds before the collision between Air Canada/ Jazz Aviation CRJ-900 jet (C-GNJZ) and the Port Authority fire truck on Runway 4/22 at LaGuardia Airport. The Truck had been cleared to cross Runway 4 at Taxiway Delta but was instructed to stop by air traffic control shortly before the collision. The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) has now established an on-site investigation team. The investigation is focusing on communication between air traffic control and ground personnel, as well as safety procedures at the airport. Previous post: #aircraft #airport #accidentshow more

Soldiers of the Air Command West shot down a... Russian Kh-101 cruise missile with an Igla MANPADS on October 5. Precise and steady work by Ukraine’s air defenders = daily protection of our skies. Each downed missile means one less threat to our cities.show more

Looking at this MD-11 UPS crash , this is... some of the most terrifying and sad footages i have seen for a crash especially for a heavy jet , correct me if I’m wrong i believe last time we saw a video recording of a plane crashing right after takeoff with substantial fire on engine or the wing it was the Concorde in Paris in 2000.show more

🧵 1/21 #OTD in 1988: Air France Flight 296,... an A320, crashes in Mulhouse (France), 3 of 136 aboard die. On a low pass demo, jet impacted trees. Inquiry blamed pilot actions, but crash raised issues on how pilots dealt with the (then) new Digital Fly By Wire (FBW) control system.show more

BREAKING: The Israeli Air Force conducted a heavy airstrike... against Mashhad International Airport in northeast Iran. Fuel depots were targeted, along with several aircraft. Among those likely hit are Boeing 777-212ER and Airbus A340-642 aircraft of Mahan Air, which had been used to transport regime officials. Despite previously being allowed to operate, these aircraft now appear to have been targeted as well. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoarshow more

😓 Air India 🇮🇳 Flight AI171 with fully loaded... Boeing 787-7 Dreamliner fatal accident: I‘m an airline pilot with >15‘000h of experience and a physics institute: My brief PRELIMINARY analysis of the visible facts from the video of the takeoff: * The flaps are only slightly extended, presumably to position 1 instead of 5. * The landing gear is still extended, which should have been retracted at this altitude and causes additional drag. * The aircraft is at a high angle of attack, which confirms the insufficient flap setting. * From the video and witness accounts, only low engine noise is audible. * Neither smoke nor fire is visible. * An engine failure is less likely. The most probable cause is presumably a human factor, an incorrectly chosen, insufficient flap setting for takeoff, and consequently an inadequately selected thrust. In this context, the correlated speeds were too low because they were calculated for a larger flap setting or a lighter aircraft. As a result, the aircraft took off with insufficient speed and intentionally but falsely derated thrust, was therefore on the unstable side, and rapidly lost more speed and altitude due to the additional failure to retract the landing gear in a timely manner, leading to a subsequent stall at low altitude and crash. For the experts: the aircraft got onto the wrong side of the speed vs drag curve and maneuvered itself into a corner from where there is no escape. Another possible cause could also have been an incorrect input of a wrong takeoff weight into the Flight Management System, resulting in too low thrust and too low speeds. The pilots got startled after takeoff, couldn’t wrap their head around what went wrong and incorrectly prioritized making an emergency call instead of flying the aircraft first, manually increasing thrust immediately to maximum, and retracting the landing gear. In summary of this very early and preliminary assessment (your confidence level should be as low as mine): The most probable cause is human error 😓 - as most of the time these days. Not because the pilots got worse (although that effect can be observed as well with prioritization of diversity over competence) - but because technology got so much better.show more