A Continental Q400 with registration number: N200WQ, crashed into a house in the buffalo-area last thursday (14/2-2009), just 5 nauticalmiles from it’s destination. 50 people were killed in the crash, which might have been caused by a build-up of ice on the wings. This would have changed the wing profile, and forced the aircraft to […]
UK ‘Pilots Weren’t Trained to Land’
These were the headlines of the European news media yesterday. A plane from Flybe with 62 passengers, flew from Cardiff (GB) to Paris (France). But due to fog, the plane returned to Britain. The captain explained to the passengers that he wasn’t educated to land the aircraft. For many people, this is enough information. But […]
Scandinavian airlines (SAS) lower wages
Accidents, fuel pricing and finacial crisis. These are some of the things whitch have been bad for the airline, and have now forced a company-wide lowering in wages. It has not yet been decidet how much they go down, but the pilots have already agreed to work more, for less. The airline is the […]