The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has blasted the Wall Street Journal for its reporting on the crash of China Eastern Airlines’ flight MU5735 in March. From the Global Times: …Chinese civil aviation industry analysts blasted the US media reports as being unprofessional and
In March the world was pretty stunned to learn about a 737-800 series Boeing aircraft went into an almost vertical descent into the mountains in China. This led to some speculation that the issue that has been a huge problem for the 737 Max, may
I saw this over at The Gateway Pundit and I thought it was kind of funny for a couple of reasons. Number one, why would anyone do this, and two, how do you really prosecute this? A Southwest Airlines pilot is being charged with a
The chartered plane for the Utah Jazz’s basketball team apparently hit a flock of birds during takeoff and was forced to make an emergency landing yesterday. They were taking off out of Salt Lake International when it happened. It probably isn’t a big surprise to
This is an interesting article on the effects of “rustiness” on pilots. I agree with the pilot’s claims. Especially when talking about anti-icing procedures. This may be surprising to people, but those procedures don’t get used that often. When flying, pilots normally make a lot