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In commercial aviation, the crew responsible for operating and controlling the aircraft are called flight crew.Some flight crew position names are derived from nautical terms and indicate a rank or command structure similar to that on ocean-going vessels, allowing for quick executive decision making during normal operations or emergency situations.
Flight attendants on QantasLink Flight 1737 prevented their plane from being hijacked by a passenger with mental health issues. Two of them were taken to hospital with stab wounds. [110] Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered a decompression which tore an 18 ft (5.5 m) section of fuselage away from the plane. The only fatality was flight attendant ...
Christian Dries, owner of Diamond Aircraft Austria said "Behind the curtain, aircraft manufacturers are working on a single-pilot cockpit where the airplane can be controlled from the ground and only in case of malfunction does the pilot of the plane interfere. Basically the flight will be autonomous and I expect this to happen in the next five ...
Aircraft on the standard approach without an arc (called the CV-1) still have to correct from the marshal radial to the final bearing, and this is done in such case, at 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi). As the ship moves through the water, the aircraft must make continual, minor corrections to the right to stay on the final bearing.
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Douglas Dorsey worked on the shop floor at Boeing as an engineer for over 30 years. He said problems began in the late 1990s during a merger.
A tire on a Delta plane exploded, killing two Delta employees and injuring a third (WSB-TV 2) Two people are dead and one person is injured after a tire on a Delta plane exploded at the Hartsfield ...
A flight engineer (FE), also sometimes called an air engineer, is the member of an aircraft's flight crew who monitors and operates its complex aircraft systems. In the early era of aviation, the position was sometimes referred to as the "air mechanic". Flight engineers can still be found on some larger fixed-wing airplanes and helicopters.