Airline Geeks
• Ryan Ewing
A UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11F has crashed near Louisville, Kentucky, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday evening
Airline Geeks reports: Three crew members were on the aircraft, UPS said.
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Airline Geeks
• Ryan Ewing
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A federal jury has awarded $28 million to the family of Shikha Garg, a UN consultant killed on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019. The case was the first U.S. civil trial linked to the two 737 MAX crashes that together killed 346 people.
The AAIU found an unsecured portable charger jammed the collective control of an Airbus EC155 during a 2022 landing, preventing normal pitch input and contributing to a hard landing. The investigation details how a small foreign object obstructed a primary flight control.
A mobile lounge transporting passengers struck the Concourse D dock at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) Monday afternoon, sending 18 people to nearby hospitals and triggering an emergency response. Airport officials said the incident occurred on the concourse dock; they have not yet released details on the injuries or cause.
A Turkish military C-130 cargo aircraft crashed near the Georgia–Azerbaijan border after departing from Azerbaijan, undergoing a mid-air breakup visible in video footage before impact. Details on casualties, mission and cause are not yet confirmed and Turkish authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.
Pakistan's aviation investigator BASIP found the first officer of Pakistan International Airlines flight PK150 (Dammam–Multan) on 17 January selected the wrong ILS frequency and failed to detect an approach to the wrong runway after diverting to Lahore, resulting in a wrong‑runway landing, BASIP says.
Czech investigators say a Wizz Air UK A321XLR's descent rate increased about 60% in the final seconds before a hard touchdown and subsequent tail‑strike at Prague on 11 September. The aircraft was conducting an ILS approach to runway 24 after a service from London Gatwick.
A long-serving United Airlines flight attendant was found with a blood-alcohol level nearly eleven times the legal limit after drinking on a San Francisco–London flight, was hospitalized during the trip and subsequently resigned from the airline following the incident.
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