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The NTSB on the Hudson River crash
Omnibus news catch-up #1: Hudson River air crash
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Second day reaction on the Hudson River air crash
The aerial collision over the Hudson
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The NTSB on the Hudson River crash
Late last week the National Transportation Safety Board put out a "safety recommendation" letter about preventing accidents in the "VFR Flyway" above the Hudson River. For previous items on the August 8 airplane-helicopter collision...
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1 Sep 2009 10:06
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Omnibus news catch-up #1: Hudson River air crash
Concerning Saturday's front-page story in the NYT about what the Teterboro air traffic controllers were doing just before the airplane-helicopter collision over the Hudson: Obviously this doesn't look good for the controllers (that one of them...
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17 Aug 2009 14:01
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Omnibus news catch-up #1: Hudson River air crash UPDATED
Concerning Saturday's front-page story in the NYT about what the Teterboro air traffic controllers were doing just before the airplane-helicopter collision over the Hudson: Obviously this doesn't look good for the controllers (that one of them...
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17 Aug 2009 14:01
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Second day reaction on the Hudson River air crash
Why this crash happened, in a "who was thinking what" sense, may not be known for a long time if ever. But the mechanical description of the crash sequence now seems clearer. The NYT has another of its useful aviation disaster graphics attached...
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9 Aug 2009 8:31
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The aerial collision over the Hudson
As with any airplane accident or disaster, it can take a while to know what really happened. That is certainly the case with the apparent collision a few hours ago between a small airplane and a helicopter off lower Manhattan. What follows is just some...
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8 Aug 2009 12:50
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If you would like to get REALLY deep into details about AF447
Yesterday I mentioned one informed hypothesis about the accident-chain that brought Air France 447 down into the Atlantic Ocean: pitot-tube trouble, leading to autopilot trouble, leading to manual control of the airplane, leading (perhaps) to overstressing...
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10 Jul 2009 7:55
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Cornucopia of updates #6: a theory on AF 447
This recent post and preceding items mention the still-ambiguous mix of data concerning the crash of Air France 447 into the Atlantic six weeks ago. The plane's presence in a tropical thunderstorm was almost certainly the trigger for the problems...
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9 Jul 2009 13:31
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Cornucopia of updates #3: AF 447
Yesterday I mentioned that (unsurprisingly) there was not yet any definitive word on the cause of the Air France flight 447 crash over the Atlantic off Brazil. It turns out that there has been this recent interim report from the French BEA, Bureau d'Enquetes...
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8 Jul 2009 18:17
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Preventing the next AF 447-style crash
Unless I've missed it in my time away from the internets, no one yet knows exactly what happened to Air France flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean six weeks ago. But whatever went wrong, the problems were almost certainly related to the plane's...
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7 Jul 2009 9:57
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An Airbus captain on getting into bad weather
Regarding one of the puzzles of the Air France 447 crash -- how a professional air crew ended up in the middle of a powerful thunderstorm -- an airline pilot writes: As a point of reference I'm an A-320 Captain for NWA (soon to be Delta but happy...
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9 Jun 2009 7:19
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For more information about Air France 447
I have been preoccupied, or out of range, in the week since this disaster occurred and so hadn't read up on it. But here, for anyone who doesn't know about it, is a source that establishes beyond question one crucial point about the accident,...
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7 Jun 2009 6:27
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Finale on Colgan / Buffalo crash
I recognize that it is both heartbreaking and potentially cruel to keep going into details of what exactly led to the commuter-plane crash in February that killed all 49 people aboard the airplane and one person on the ground. (Previously here .) But...
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17 May 2009 4:11
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Aftermath on Buffalo / Colgan crash
About the public hearings on the terrible crash in Buffalo three months ago, in which 50 people died: - Authoritative wrapup of the situation here by Andy Pasztor of the Wall Street Journal, who has had well-informed stories on this topic from the beginning...
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13 May 2009 22:45
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Montana Tragedy Update
The causes of this crash seem more mysterious with the passage of a day. For the record, the human aspects have been clarified . The airplane was owned by a prominent dentist and businessman from Redlands, California. Nine of the people killed were his...
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23 Mar 2009 19:16
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One more possibility in the Buffalo crash: "tailplane stall"
Let me start with the same caution as in yesterday's item about this sad incident: it can take months or years to get the full explanation of an airplane crash, sometimes the real answer is never known, and any hypotheses now are tentative. So my...
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20 Feb 2009 3:12
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