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• Trading Timeframe Selection

  
  Currency Forex Trading Blog — Authority: 155
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• An ItAF C-130J crashes in Pisa

  
  David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog — Authority: 419
  On Nov. 23, 2009, around 14.10 LT, a C-130J belonging to the 46^ Brigata Aerea, crashed in Pisa, next to the active runway (more or less here ) causing the death of the 5 POB (People On Board). According to the eye witnesses that saw the aircraft crashing into the ground, the aircraft had just taken off from RWY 22L ...
  4 days ago

• Video - Dangerous Landing at Toncontin

  
  Flightstory.net - Aviation Blog — Authority: 121
  Loyal blog reader “prop-er” sent in this crazy video, showing a very risky landing of a Boeing 737 at Toncontin International Airport (TGU/MHTG), Honduras. I won’t spoil this breathtaking video, you just have to see for yourself! Just for your information: The runway is only 2163m (7096ft) short.
  2 weeks ago

• Kingfisher ATR-72 skidded of runway

  
  Flightstory.net - Aviation Blog — Authority: 121
  Yesterday a Kingfischer Airlines ATR-72-212A (VT-KAC) skidded off the runway on landing at Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM), India. Flight IT4124 was bound from Bhavnagar to Mumbai. Nobody of the 46 people on board was injured. The plane was substantialy damaged. The accident was caused by low ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flight Death Statistics

  
  I Luv SA — Authority: 156
  By: Lavana James South African aviation authorities are bringing new innovative methods to the table in an effort to spare the industry another killer month. The sector got some really bad press in October, with seventeen accidents claiming close on thirty deaths, making it the deadliest month for aviation in South ...
  2 weeks ago

• Video - Beechcraft Bonanza Close Call with Terrain

  
  Flightstory.net - Aviation Blog — Authority: 121
  I just found this video on YouTube. According to the YouTube user, a Beechcraft Bonanza took of June 10th, 2009 to videotape a friend flying an Aero L-39 Albatros. Due to bad weather with low visibility, the Bonanza came very close to terrain. How close it really was, you can see on the damage of the plane in the end ...
  3 weeks ago

• Winner: Most interesting air force press release

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 600
  A thousand bonus points to the South African Air Force for managing to write this news release with an exclamation point and a hint of humor: Astra lands minus passenger By Dean Wingrin In a highly unusual incident, a SAAF Astra training aircraft landed with one person less than which it took off! ...
  3 weeks ago

• Graphic Video Highlights Dangers of Inadvertent VFR into IMC

  
  Max Trescott on General Aviation — Authority: 113
  Today on the Golf Hotel Whiskey blog , I saw one of the mostchilling flying videos I’ve ever viewed. It’s a graphic example of whyinadvertent VFR into IMC is the most dangerous accident type. Statistically, ifa pilot inadvertently flies into a cloud and subsequently has an accident, 90%of the time one or more ...
  4 weeks ago

• Northwest pilots say they were distracted by laptops – washingtonpost.com

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 125
  The Washington Post has this report by Sholnn Freeman on the Northwest Pilots who missed their destination by about 150 miles. The plane was also out of contact (that is, not responding to radio hails for over an hour.  Northwest pilots say they were distracted by laptops . Interestingly, the pilots dont allege ...
  4 weeks ago

• Airspeed Safety Stand-Down: The Kranz Dictum

  
  Airspeed — Authority: 395
  Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your favorite other podcatcher. Its all free! These are the show notes to an audio episode. If you want to listen online, please use the direct link below. http://media.libsyn.com/media/airspeed/AirspeedKranz.mp3 . On Friday, 27 January 1967, a fire destroyed ...
  4 weeks ago

• Compressor stall…in the worst case scenario (part 2)

  
  David Cenciotti's weblog - the most visited Italian Aviation Blog — Authority: 419
  In the previous post “ Compressor stall…in the worst case scenario ” I explained what a compressor stall (or surge) basing on a picture I took aboard USS Nimitz. I uploaded an image within that post that I created by merging two pictures I took one after the other. Since that picture provided a view of the last ...
  4 weeks ago

• 2nd Sikorsky chopper problem flagged

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  The European Aviation Safety Agency issued an emergency airworthiness directive Friday about the Sikorsky S-92 — the type of helicopter used by Newfoundland and Labradors offshore oil industry — saying cracks have been found that could lead to loss of co
  5 weeks ago

• Pilots Forget to Land - Northwest Plane Overshoots Destination

  
  Flightstory.net - Aviation Blog — Authority: 121
  It sounds like a bad joke: Northwest Airlines flight 188 from San Diego (KSAN) to Minneapolis (KMSP) overshot its intended destination by 150 miles on Wednesday evening. What happened in that cockpit? The pilots say they “lost situational awareness” while arguing about airline policy. The immediate suspicion is ...
  5 weeks ago

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