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• Matt Thurber
The NTSB has released docket information on the Philadelphia Learjet medevac accident, with investigators focusing on somatogravic illusion and the aircraft’s pitch-trim setting. The materials provide additional detail on the safety investigation’s examination of flight-control and human-factors considerations.
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The NTSB has released docket information on the Philadelphia Learjet medevac accident, with investigators focusing on somatogravic illusion and the aircraft’s pitch-trim setting. The materials provide additional detail on the safety investigation’s examination of flight-control and human-factors considerations.
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A Kenya-registered Eurocopter chartered by anBeyond crashed near Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County, killing all seven people aboard, including the pilot, five U.S. citizens and Ecuador’s intelligence chief. The Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the crash occurred in an inaccessible area during a safari flight.
A helicopter has crashed in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to aviation authorities. The number of passengers aboard and the circumstances of the crash were not immediately known, leaving the scale of the event and any operational or safety implications unresolved.
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15J suffered a main landing-gear collapse while landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, skidding and turning 180 degrees before stopping with its left wing touching the runway. The incident temporarily closed one of the airport’s two commercial runways, while flights continued on the other.
Bodycam footage shows a bloodied Marine pilot walking away after ejecting from an F/A-18 Hornet that struck trees during a low-level training exercise in Washington state in June. The pilot survived the crash but sustained injuries, underscoring the risks of terrain-intensive military flight operations.
Spanish investigators are examining an airprox involving an Airbus A320neo and aircraft supporting a wildfire response near Malaga. The airliner aborted its approach after encountering firefighting traffic; two aircraft involved in the Cadiz wildfire operation were reportedly heading to a heliport to refill.
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A Qantas Airbus A380 flew from Sydney to Dallas Fort Worth and back—carrying nearly 1,000 passengers—after engineers inadvertently left a maintenance floodlight inside the aircraft’s wing. The ATSB report has prompted Qantas to revise tool-control procedures and assess technology for tracking maintenance equipment.
A Cirrus Vision Jet collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Driggs-Reed Memorial Airport in Idaho. At least one passenger was injured and hospitalized, highlighting the operational and safety risks posed by active construction activity around general aviation airports.
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