#Aviation safety

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[victusinveritas]

Tragically, Musk is just fine and at least 30 people are dead.

[karaokewolf]

meeee when we have to make an emergency water landing ^_^

[baldwinheights]

AGAIN?!?!?

[billionbrilliantstars]

This is very specific, but I wanted to point this out anyway. Project 2025 wants to get rid of A & P mechanics. That’s airframe and power plant mechanics. That’s all that means and project 2025 explicitly wants to get rid of them. They are the reason it’s safe to get on an airplane. Project 2025 also does not provide an alternative to who they think should be repairing airplanes and doing annual and 100 hour inspections on them.

As a pilot I can also tell you all the aviation weather data we use to determine if a route is safe, is from the National Weather Service. Which Project 2025 would like to eliminate. A Trump presidency quite possibly means safe air travel in America would be a thing of the past.

[odinsblog]

Boeing is having problems™

[bekolxeram]

I'm not American, but I've been following the Southern California wildfires closely. My thoughts go out to all the victims. Check out how you can help here, or how to get help if you're one of those affected here.

But today I want to talk about drone activities in wildfire stricken areas.

I've seen aerial photos depicting the aftermath of the LA wildfires going around online aviation communities. I browsed through the instagram account of the original poster, they are a professional photographer documenting the ongoing disaster to garner attention for the victims and the first responders working 24/7 on the ground. Their drone photos seem to be a misguided attempt at citizen journalism.

But before I could fully react to this piece of information, news came out that a drone collided with a firefighting aircraft.

The aircraft involved is C-GQBE, a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper sent in by the government of Québec to provide aerial firefighting aid. It collided with a civilian drone while on an air attack mission in the afternoon of Jan 9, resulting in a small punctured hole on the leading edge of one of its wings. Luckily, the drone didn't hit any major component crucial to flight safety, it merely damaged the skin, and no life was lost in this incident.

It may seem like easily fixable, but aerial firefighting aircrafts go through unusual stress due to rapid and frequent fluctuation of altitude and weight, any damage to their skin has to be repaired and thoroughly examined before they're allowed to be airborne if you don't want them to fall apart mid-air. That's why C-GQBE has been grounded since the incident on Thursday.

One of the major factors hampering fire containment effort is the strong gust preventing firefighting aircrafts from doing their job safely when the fires first started. Firefighting pilots are now working tirelessly to delay the spread of fire as much as they can before the winds pick back up in a few days. Please do not fly unnecessary aircrafts into the air and make their work more difficult. They're racing against the clock here.

Even if, for some reason, you must deploy drones near the wildfires, please check the FAA Temporary Flight Restriction map beforehand and make sure you never fly into those areas. Otherwise, it would be a federal crime, punishable by up to 12 months in prison and up to $20,000 penalty in civil court.

Firefighting pilots are risking their lives, flying as low as 100 feet above ground to make an effective air drop in hopes of containing the fire. It's not ordinary circumstance.

All the news helicopters congesting the LA airspace have got it. They're livestreaming the whole thing. Your service is not needed in this area.

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[tfemflightinstructor]

Friendly reminder that the faa’s rules on alcohol are 8 hours bottle to throttle (basically your last sip must be at minimum 8 hours before you fly next), under .04 BAC, and Not under the Influence

[tomorrowusa]

Pardon me for not shedding tears over the death of the misogynistic theocratic thug Ebrahim Raisi.

As a strong supporter of Ukraine, I note that Iran under Raisi has supplied Russia with Shahed drones which have murdered or maimed thousands of Ukrainians.

Of course Raisi, first and foremost, has repressed and killed countless Iranians over the span of his brutal career.

Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi — once seen as a potential successor to 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — died after his helicopter crashed into trees in a mountainous northwestern region of the Islamic Republic on Sunday.  The Iranian branch of the Red Crescent humanitarian network said on Monday its search and rescue teams had reached the crash site and “found no signs of the helicopter’s occupants being alive.” The discovery of the burned-out wreckage of Raisi’s helicopter among blackened trees — with seemingly only the tail surviving the crash — followed hours of searches in the fog-bound mountain valleys of Dizmar forest near the border with Azerbaijan.  [ ... ] Raisi, 63, was a conservative cleric and former judiciary chief who was responsible for decades of vicious crackdowns against his own people’s aspirations for greater personal freedoms and democracy, arresting, torturing and executing tens of thousands of the Islamist regime’s opponents.  Educated in the seminary city of Qom and dubbed “the butcher,” he was alleged to have been involved in the execution of thousands of political prisoners in the late 1980s, according to Iran’s opposition. As judiciary chief, he was also directly responsible for the wave of arrests and executions that followed massive anti-regime protests in 2019-2020.  As president, he oversaw the iron-fisted repression of the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Tens of thousands were arrested, and the death toll is estimated at more than 500. 

Raisi was a way bad person – even by the standards of the ruling theocratic mafia in Iran.

As for the helicopter crash that killed Raisi, look to Iran's terrible air safety record.

Iran's poor aviation safety record

The cause of the helicopter crash is not yet known - but Iran has a poor air transport safety record. This is at least partly the result of decades of US sanctions, which have severely weakened its aerial fleet. President Raisi was on board a Bell 212 helicopter, state news agencies said. The model was made in the US and could not have been sold to Iran since the 1979 revolution. Previous ministers of defence and transport, as well as commanders of Iran’s ground and air armed forces, have died in plane or helicopter crashes. When reformers led Iran's government, they aimed to modernise the country's fleet of aircraft by negotiating a deal with the West that would see sanctions lifted in return for limiting Iran's sensitive nuclear activities and allowing in international inspectors However, these efforts stalled when President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal and reimposed sanctions. Reformers were subsequently opposed and mocked by hardliners, who insisted that Iran could rely on its domestic industries and foreign allies to improve aviation safety.

Iran has been devoting more attention to building killer drones than to maintaining its own aircraft. The helicopter crash is poetic justice of sorts.

[fuck-u-maga]

This was made the first time Trump was elected and here we are; planes falling out of the sky

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[petula-xx]

Shackles on a plane

Have just seen the news and found out that Indian immigrants deported from the USA in a military plane spent the whole flight in wrist and ankle shackles.

Just as well that plane didn't need to ditch or crash land anywhere (land or water) en route. Evacuating a burning or sinking plane in shackles would be impossible.

From an international aviation safety perspective how could this possibly be legal?

Maybe someone with industry knowledge in this area could respond here.

[ricisidro]

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On January 31, 2025, a Learjet 55 medical transport crashed in northeast Philadelphia after take off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, killing a pediatric patient, 2 doctors, 2 pilots, and a family member.

This tragic incident occurred just 2 days after, an American Airlines jet collided with a military helicopter near Washington, D.C. where 67 individuals lost their lives on January 29, 2025.

And 24 years after the deadliest US air disaster on November 12, 2001, when an Airbus A300-600 operated by American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens, New York shortly after takeoff from JFK Airport. The crash resulted in the deaths of all 251 passengers and 9 crew members onboard, as well as 5 individuals on the ground.

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Nepal Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission: Yeti Airlines 691 (YT691) ATR72-500 9N-ANC - Final Report

On Mar 28th 2024 Nepal's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission (AAIC) released their final report via the French BEA concluding the probable causes of the crash were:

The most probable cause of the accident is determined to be the inadvertent movement of both condition levers to the feathered position in flight, which resulted in feathering of both propellers and subsequent loss of thrust, leading to an aerodynamic stall and collision with terrain.

The contributing factors to the accident are:

- High workload due to operating into a new airport with surrounding terrain and the crew missing the associated flight deck and engine indications that both propellers had been feathered.

- Human factor issues such as high workload and stress that appears to have resulted in the misidentification and selection of the propellers to the feathered position.

- The proximity of terrain requiring a tight circuit to land on runway

- This tight circuit was not the usual visual circuit pattern and contributed to the high workload. This tight pattern also meant that the approach did not meet the stabilised visual approach criteria.

- Use of visual approach circuit for RWY 12 without any evaluation, validation and resolution of its threats which were highlighted by the SRM team of CAAN and advices proposed in flight procedures design report conducted by the consultant and without the development and approval of the chart by the operator and regulator respectively.

- Lack of appropriate technical and skill based training (including simulator) to the crew and proper classroom briefings (for that flight) for the safe operation of flight at new airport for visual approach to runway 12.

- Non-compliance with SOPs, ineffective CRM and lack of sterile cockpit discipline