Tag Archive: Accidents/Incidents

Dive team finds part of Air France Flight 447 recorder; data missing | ATWOnline

French Air Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA) on Wednesday confirmed that investigators searching for wreckage of the Air France A330-200 that crashed in the South Atlantic June 1, 2009 located the aircraft’s flight data recorder. However, BEA subsequently told Bloomberg that the FDR is missing “the memory module that stores its crucial information,” the news agency …

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Incident: American B772 near Tokyo, turbulence injures 4 cabin crew – The Aviation Herald

An American Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration N766AN performing flight AA-170 from Tokyo Narita (Japan) to Los Angeles,CA (USA) with 231 people on board, was climbing through FL240 about 194nm east of Narita Airport over the international waters of the Pacific Ocean when the aircraft experienced severe turbulence causing injuries to 4 flight attendants. The crew …

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Southwest grounds 79 737-300’s after hole prompts emergency landing – CNN.com

(CNN) — Southwest Airlines announced Saturday that it is grounding 79 planes for inspection following an incident in which one of its flights was forced to make an emergency landing after a 3-foot hole tore open in the fuselage of the plane. The plane managed to land safely at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, …

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Airbus Indicted In AF447 Accident | AVIATION WEEK

Even as the French government gets ready to launch another attempt to find the wreckage of Air France flight 447, a French magistrate has moved ahead and issued an indictment against Airbus, maker of the A330-200 involved in the 2009 accident. The move is not unusual for French judicial proceedings in the wake of a …

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