24 January 2015The South Korean Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB) published the final report of their investigation into a tail strike accident involving an Airbus A321 landing at Seoul-Incheon Airport.
24 January 2015The U.S. FAA issued a Safety Alert for Operators (SAFO), recommending U.S. airlines to require passengers to carry e-cigarettes and related devices solely in the aircraft cabin for fire safety reasons.
23 January 2015Dubai Airport was closed for over 40 minutes because an unknown drone was illegally operated in the vicinity of the airport. Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV558, an Airbus A330 from Riyadh, was the last flight to land at Dubai Airport at 14:43 hours local time before traffic was halted because of drone activity near the […]
22 January 2015The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a series of safety recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) calling for improvements in locating downed aircraft and ways to obtain critical flight data faster and without the need for immediate underwater retrieval. The Board also re-emphasized the need for cockpit image recorders on commercial airplanes.
20 January 2015Authorities in Guyana called off the search for a BN-2 Islander plane that went missing on a domestic flight on December 28, 2014.
18 January 2015The German accident investigation authority, BFU, issued a preliminary report on a serious incident involving an engine fire on an ATR-72 shortly after takeoff from Münster-Osnabrück Airport.
14 January 2015The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a Safety Alert for Operators to prevent wrong runway takeoffs.
9 January 2015The recent New Year celebrations in Thailand resulted in reports of dangerous situations for aircraft in Thai airspace.
8 January 2015The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada concluded that damage from a prior incident caused a DHC-3T float plane loss of control accident in the Northwest Territories (NWT).
8 January 2015Eight Turkish airline employees were found guilty in a criminal case involving a 2007 plane crash in Turkey that killed 57 people. On November 30, 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was destroyed in an accident near Isparta Airport in Turkey. All fifty passengers and seven crew members were killed. The airplane was leased by World Focus Airlines and […]