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Investigators have disclosed that a TAP Air Portugal Airbus A320 involved in a thrust-reverser incident just before touchdown in Denmark started veering to the left as the crew attempted to abort the ...
Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...
Question: Do they really reverse the engines after landing to slow the aircraft? If so, doesn't this put a huge strain on the engines? — Submitted by reader Andy, Granada Hills, Calif. Answer: Reverse ...
Airlines should be banned from assuming thrust-reverser deployment when calculating runway stopping distances, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). In a letter to the US ...
The company will provide thrust reverser relay control boxes to Boeing for DC-10, MD-10, KC-10 and KDC-10 aircraft. The FAA-mandated boxes, which provide wing engine thrust reverse lock-out, are based ...
May 5 (Reuters) - A component meant to slow an aircraft on landing was inoperative on the Boeing jetliner that slid off a runway into a river at a Florida military base, injuring 22 people, ...
Two engineers have designed a system that covers planes with giant airbags that are deployed by artificial intelligence (AI) ...
“Project REBIRTH is the first AI-powered crash survival system,” reads the description of the pillowy protective measure on ...
A Canadair CRJ similar to the one involved in the 2007 vibration incident. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Eddie Maloney In Part 1, we discussed how vibrations can cause challenges with aircraft ...
When discussing Qantas flight 31, we need more science and less hyperbolic linkbait. Cooler heads should prevail. This week brought us the so-called “engine explosion” and “crash landing” of a ...
"Mayday, mayday, mayday. We have lost both engines due to fuel starvation. We're gliding now," transmitted 28-year-old First Officer Dirk DeJager over the emergency frequency. It was August 24, 2001, ...