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Do Most Landing Gear Failures Occur at the Nose Landing Gear?
There are those social media arguments that get you hooked at 3 a.m. and keep you scrolling to hear both…
Why are most runways made of asphalt and not concrete?
The construction material choice for runways is mostly decided either by weather conditions and/or the weight of the aircraft that…
Can rain cause a jet engine to flame out?
In Jet engines air is compressed by fan blades and directed to the combustion chamber, where it is mixed with…
How to disable MCAS during flight and manually control the aircraft?
MCAS or Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System is a software method of helping prevent unwanted attitudes in the Boeing 737 Max…
United B752 near Denver on Feb 19th 2024, slat damage in flight
A United Boeing 757-200, registration N57111 performing flight UA-354 from San Francisco,CA to Boston,MA (USA) with 165 people on board,…
TUI UK 787 Involved in Door Mishap at Birmingham Airport
In an avoidable ground incident, TUI Airways Boeing 787-8 aircraft (G-TUIF) is grounded after the left fwd passenger door was…
Air Serbia Embraer received serious damage to its fuselage
Air Serbia Embraer ERJ-195 (OY-GDC, built 2008, leased from Marathon Airlines) received serious damage to its fuselage and left stabilizer…
Why does the Boeing 777 fuselage section start from 41 and not 1?
It’s been a unique Boeing tradition since the late 1950s. Boeing’s first passenger jet, the 707, had its nose section…
Pilatus PC-12 has lost its left wing during crash-landing at Courchevel, France
This Saturday, February 17 at 10:15 a.m., a Pilatus PC-12 missed its landing at the Courchevel altiport. Its wings left…
How does an airplane lose cabin pressure? How is it fixed? Does it happen often?
I was in a 757 a couple of years ago conducting a maintenance test flight on an airplane that not…