Boeing Company is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets and satellites. It also provides leasing and product support services. Boeing is among the largest global aircraft manufacturers, is the second-largest defense contractor in the world based on 2013 revenue, and is the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value.
The Boeing Company’s corporate headquarters are located in Chicago and recorded $90.78 billion in sales, ranked 27th on the Fortune magazine “Fortune 500” list (2015), ranked 90th on the “Fortune Global 500” list (2015), and ranked 27th on the “World’s Most Admired Companies” list (2015).
Fly-by-wire (FBW) is a flight control system that replaces the mechanical linkages between the pilot's control inputs and the aircraft's control surfaces with electronic signals. In an FBW system, the pilot's control inputs are detected by sensors and transmitted to a...
Electric airplanes are still in their early stages of development, but they have the potential to revolutionize commercial aviation in the coming years. Electric planes offer a number of advantages over traditional fossil fuel-powered planes, including lower operating...
To have a good overview of Aviation statistics year 2022 and understand “how safe (or not) flying is”, we have to look into numbers and graphs. From a first glance, the answer to the above question is not only “yes, flying is safe” (and safer every year) but it’s one...
On 9 January 2021, Sirwijaya Air flight SJ182 took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (WIII), Jakarta with intended destination of Supadio International Airport (WIOO), Pontianak, and operated with a Boeing B737-500 registration PK-CLC. At 0736 UTC (1436...
Atlas Air flight 5Y3591 was operated on February 23, 2019, at 1239 central standard time with a Boeing 767-375BCF registration N1217A. It was destroyed after it rapidly descended from an altitude of about 6,000 ft mean sea level (msl) and crashed into a shallow,...
Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed shortly after takeoff from Ika airport, Iran. The airplane, was arriving from Kyiv Boryspyl INTL airport in Tehran Imam Khomeini INTL, and from there to Ika airport, Iran. After disembarking 58 passengers and...
On 19 December 2021, Emirates flight EK231 operated with a Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) Aircraft, registration A6-EQI, departed from Dubai International Airport (OMDB), the United Arab Emirates, for Washington Dulles International Airport (KIAD), the United...
Northwest Airlines flight NWA434 was a flight bound to Detroit (Michigan US) on Sunday, 28 November 1993, scheduled at 07:00 eastern standard time (EST). The airplane , a Boeing B727-200 (registered N278US) was was parked at gate 33 at the Montreal International...
All Nippon Airways flight NH883 was a flight operated with a Boeing 767-300, registered JA8674, that took off from Tokyo International Airport for Toyama Airport as a scheduled Flight NH883 at 09:08 JST (UTC+9 hours). At 09:19 while flying at an altitude of...
Air Canada flight AC614 was flying on 04 March 2019, operated with a Boeing 767-375 aircraft (registration C-FTCA, serial number 24307) from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport (CYYZ), Ontario, for an instrument flight rules flight to Halifax/Stanfield...
Tigerair Australia flight TT229 was a flight operated with Boeing Company 737-8FE, VH-VUB on 12 July 2018 from Sydney, New South Wales to Melbourne, Victoria. For this flight, a trainee First Officer was the pilot flying (PF) and a training Captain was the pilot...
Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10th 2019, it was operated with a Boeing B737 Max 8. Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 was bound to Nairobi, Kenya Jomo Kenyatta Int. Airport. Shortly after takeoff, the Angle of...
Emirates flight EK521 crashed on 3 August 2016 while operating a scheduled passenger flight UAE521, departed Trivandrum International Airport India, at 0506 UTC for a 3 hour 30 minute flight to Dubai International Airport (OMDB), the United Arab Emirates, with 282...
On 15 Oct 2015, a Boeing 747-300, registered EP-MNE was operating Mahan Air flight IRM1095 from Mehrabad International Airport to Bandar Abbas airport within IR of IRAN territory. Mahan Air flight IRM1095 was carrying 19 flight crew and 422 passengers. The aircraft...
On 12 December 2002, Garuda Airlines flight GA833, a Boeing 737- 300 aircraft bearing registration mark PK-GGG, was on a scheduled passenger flight from Singapore to Jakarta. It was a “turn-around” flight – it had arrived from Jakarta earlier. The aircraft was parked...
The history of the Korean Air flight KAL2711 is summarized as below, based on the data from onboard digital flight data recorder (DFDR), the air traffic control (ATC) communication records and the statements of the pilot in command (PIC), the first officer (FO), two...
The final report about the Fly Dubai flight FZ981 crash was released by the INTERSTATE AVIATION COMMITTEE on November 25th 2019, after three years from the accident, which happened in Rostov on Don airport (Russia) on...
Lion Air flight JT610 crashed on 29 October 2018, at about 0632 Local Time (23:32 UTC 28 October 2018). It was a flight operated by Lion Mentari Airlines (Lion Air) with a Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft registered PK-LQP, and was a scheduled passenger flight from...
The serious accident of Cargo Airline 4X-ICM happened on October 01st 2003. The Boeing B747-271C cargo airplane registered 4X-ICM was operated by Cargo Airline Ltd. After an uneventful flight from Tel Aviv and a normal ILS approach on runway 05R of Liege, the Cargo...
Air Niugini flight PX073 impacted the water of Chuuk Lagoon, about 1,500 ft (460 m) short of the runway 04 threshold on 28 September 2018, at 23:24:19 UTC2 (09:24 local time). It was operated with a Boeing 737-8BK aircraft, registered P2-PXE (PXE), operated by Air...
American Airlines flight AA956 , also known as the Calì accident , was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated with a Boeing 757-223, N651AA, from Miami International Airport (MIA), Florida, U.S.A., to Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport (SKCL), in...
On September 8, 1994, about 1903:23 eastern daylight time, USAIR flight US427, a Boeing 737-3B7 (737-300) registered N513AU, crashed while maneuvering to land at Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USAIR flight US427 was operating under the...
On September 5, 2000, a Boeing B747-300 of Japan Airlines (JAL) registration JA8178 was operating on a scheduled international passenger flight, as Japan Airlines flight JL726. The aircraft, which departed from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta,...
On 27 March 2013 a Boeing 737-500 aircraft registered PK CLJ operated by PT Sriwijaya Air was scheduled on a passenger services as Sriwijaya Air flight SJ021 from Polonia Airport, Medan to Minangkabau International airport (MKB/WIPT) Padang then to Soekarno-Hatta...
On August 10 (Monday), 2009, a Boeing 737-800, registered JA56AN, operated by Air Nippon as All Nippon flight NH298 on a regularly scheduled service under the agreement of joint transportation, made a tail strike with the surface of runway 22, Tokyo International...
Aeroperu flight PL603 was operated by Aeroperu with a Boeing B757-200 (N52AW and took off at 05:42 UTC on 2 October 1996 from Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru bound to Santiago de Chile. When Aeroperu flight PL603 took off and reached speed V2 + 10,...
On the 22nd of January 2002 a Boeing 757-208, TF-FIO, on Iceland Air flight FI315, made an approach to Oslo airport Gardermoen. The descent and approach was made in strong tailwind. The unstabilized final approach was abandoned at low altitude, and during the...
Malaysia Airlines flight MH124 serious incident happened approximately at 1703 Western Standard Time, on 1 August 2005. The flight was operated with a Boeing Company 777-200 aircraft (B777), registered 9M-MRG, on a scheduled international passenger service from Perth,...
Ryanair flight FR4102 accident occurred on 10 November 2008, at 06.56 '(07.56' local), on the Rome Ciampino airport and involved the aircraft type B737-8AS registration marks EI-DYG.On 10 November 2008, at 05.30', the aircraft Boeing 737-8AS EI-DYG took off from...
ASL Hungary flight FAH7332 was a scheduled cargo flight from in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport (LFPG) to Bergamo Orio al Serio (LIME) and operated on behalf of DHL. ASL Hungary flight FAH7332 departed at 00.54’ UTC...
Tatarstan Airlines flight TAK363 was a commercial flight operated on November 17, 2013 from Moscow (Domodedovo, UUDD) to Kazan (UWKD) on the Boeing 737-500 VQ-BBN aircraft. At 10:10 all the crew members passed medical examination at Kazan airport medical post and the...
American Airlines flight AA383 , from Chicago O'Hare to Miami, FL , operated with a Boeing B767-300 (N-345AN) stopped on the runway during takeoff roll, caught fire and evacuated the passengers. American Airlines flight AA383 had 161 passengers and 9 crew on board,...
Thai Airways flight TG114 exploded about 14:48 while parked at gate 62 of the Bangkok International Airport, Thailand. Daylight visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time. Thai Airways flight TG114 was to be a domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to...
Korean Air flight KAL769 was operated by Korean Air Lines co Ltd and took off from Incheon International Airport (Seoul, the Republic of Korea) on January 6, 2007 (Saturday), and made an approach to Runway 10 of Akita Airport (Akita Japan), its destination, but landed...
On January 7, 2013, about 1021 eastern standard time, smoke was discovered by cleaning personnel in the aft cabin of a Japan Airlines Boeing B787 registered JA829J , which was parked at a gate at General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport (BOS), Boston,...
Sky Airlines flight MHS520 was operated with a Boeing B737-800 on 23 April 2005 with 189 passengers and seven crew members on board from Hurghada, Egypt, and should have arrived initially in Stuttgart, via Düsseldorf. According to a short term plan modification, Sky...
On 11 February 2006, Adam Air flight DHI782 , a Boeing B737-329 registered PK-KKE, operated by Adam Sky Connection Airlines (AdamAir) as flight number DHI 782, was scheduled to depart Soekarno Hatta Airport, Jakarta at 06.00 LT (22.00 UTC) for Hasanuddin Airport –...
Malaysia flight MH370 will be for long one of the biggest mystery in aviation industry and collective immagination. After four years the final investigation about the Malaysia flight MH370 has been released with an enormous effort by the Malaysia's Ministry of...
On 21 February 2007 at 1525 local time (0825 UTC), Adam Air flight KI172 , registered PK-KKV, was being operated by PT. Adam Sky Connection Airlines (Adam Air) on a scheduled passenger flight from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta to Juanda Airport, Surabaya, East...
On Saturday, March 31, 2012, a Boeing 777-200, registered JA701J , operated by Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. as Japan Airlines flight JL874 , took off from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and approached Runway 34L of Tokyo International Airport. At around 16:08...
Sirwijaya Air flight SJ230 , a Boeing 737-300 registered PK-CKM, was being operated by PT. Sriwijaya Air on On 20 December 2011 from Soekarno Hatta International Airport (WIII) Jakarta to Adisutjipto International Airport (WARJ), Yogyakarta. There were 141 persons on...
On 24 March 2010, at 0120 Atlantic Daylight Time, a Boeing 727-225 , Cargojet Airways flight CJT620 , departed Hamilton/John Munro International Airport, Ontario, on a scheduled cargo flight to the Greater Moncton International Airport, New Brunswick, with 3 crew...
The British Airways flight BA034 , a Boeing B747-400 with registration G-BNLL , was going to embark on a commercial international air transportation long haul flight from FAOR to EGLL. ATC gave British Airways flight BA034 instructions to push back, start and face...
About 0901 central day light time on August 31, 1988, Delta Airlines flight DL1141 crashed shortly after lifting off from runway 18L at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Texas. The airplane, a Boeing 727 -232 , U. S. Registry N473DA, was a regularly...
The incident took place in LKPR, between a LUFTHANSA flight DLH5NC and SUN EXPRESS flight SXS5663. Operation took place in the morning rush hours. The Lufthansa flight DLH5NC , an Airbus A321-131 , began taxiing at 08:26:21 from the stand 17 on TWYs H, F, E following...
On February 9, 1998, about 0954 central standard time (CST), a Boeing 727-223 (727), N845AA, operated by American Airlines as American Airlines flight AA1340 , impacted the ground short of the runway 14R threshold at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) while...
On January 12th 2003, Transavia Airlines flight HV1277 , a passenger aircraft was scheduled for a three leg charter flight from Rotterdam Airport (EHRD) via Maastricht-Aachen Airport (EHBK) and Arrecife, Lanzarote Airport (GCRR) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (EHAM)....
The Ryanair flight FR772 made a normal landing on Runway 31 at Prestwick Airport. As the turnoff at the end of the runway approached, the brakes were applied, with no apparent effect, and Ryanair flight FR772 slid off the end of the runway onto the grass. There was no...
Ethiopian Airlines flight ET710 , a Boeing B787 , landed at London Heathrow Airport at 0527 hrs on 12 July 2013 after an uneventful fight from Addis Ababa and arrived on Stand 326 at about 0540 hrs. The fight crew did not report or record any. After passenger and...
On March 3, 1991, United Airlines flight UA585 was on a scheduled passenger flight from Denver, Colorado, to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time, and the flight was on an instrument flight rules flight plan. Numerous...
At about 1645 hours on 19 December 2013 , Singapore Airlines flight SQ421 , a Boeing B777-200 aircraft ingested an empty cargo container into its left engine while docking at Bay F37 at Changi Airport after arrival from Mumbai. The left engine of Singapore Airlines...
On 14 February 2011, a Lion Air flight LNI392 aircraft registration PK-LFI operated by PT. Lion Mentari Airlines departed from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta (CGK / WIII) to Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport, Pekanbaru (PKU / WIBB). The aircraft taxi out from...
The Thomas Cook Airlines flight TCX1638 was on a scheduled fight from London Gatwick Airport to Hurghada Airport, Egypt. During the takeoff run, at a reported 70 kt, the right wing slide advisory message appeared on the Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System...
On Monday, 21 April, 2008 at 15:05 UTC a serious aircraft incident took place in Riga FIR, in the vicinity of Liepaja (N56:31:07; E021:05:31) : Air Baltic flight BT165T - Virgin Atlantic flight VIR301 airprox. Virgin Atlantic flight VIR301 Airbus A340 was en route...
LOT Polish Airlines flight LOT2 , a Boeing 767-300 (registration SP-LPA, serial number 24865) departed from Chicago, O’Hare International Airport and was destined for Warsaw, Poland. At 2203 Eastern daylight time, while the aircraft was in level cruise flight in the...
Singapore Airlines flight SQ368 was operated with a Boeing 777-300ER registered 9V-SWB that departed from Singapore Changi Airport at 0224 hrs for Milan Malpensa on 27 June 2016. The aircraft carried two sets of operating crew, i.e. four pilots in total. As Singapore...
On 6 August 2013 , Lion Air flight LNI892 , aircraft registered PK-LKH , departed from Sultan Hasanuddin Airport (WAAA) Makassar, at 1203 UTC to Djalaluddin Airport (WAMG) Gorontalo. This previous flights were Soekarno Hatta Airport of Jakarta to Sultan Hasanudin...
On the 1st October, 2008 in night time, during landing at aerodrome Kaliningrad (Khrabrovo) , JSC KD Avia flight KNI794 was involved in an accident: The flight was operated with a Boeing B-737-300 registered EI-DON operated by JSC KD AVIA airline of North-Western Air...
On Monday, August 5, 2013, a Boeing 737-900, registered HL7599, operated as Korean Air flight KAL763 , was unable to stop within the runway 10 in Niigata Airport after landing, and came to rest with the nose gear trespassing into the grass area of the easterly end of...
At 8 h 48 Air France flight AF22 took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport for New York J.F. Kennedy one and a half hours late. About 30 minutes later he was cleared to follow a route in oceanic airspace, which he estimated entering at 10 h 27. At about 10 h 00,...
On 24 December 2011, a Boeing 737-200 aircraft, registered PK-CJD, was being operated by PT Sriwijaya Air on a schedule passenger SIRWIJAYA AIR flight SJ041 from Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport (WIBB) Pekanbaru to Soekarno Hatta Airport (WIII), Jakarta. There were 134...
On January 1st 2017 the crew of a cargo Boeing 747-412F a/c registration TC-MCL operated by ACT Airlines including Captain, FO, loadmaster and a/c...
On June 28, 2008, about 2215 Pacific daylight time, an Boeing 767-200, registered N799AX, operating as ABX AIR flight ABX1611 from San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, experienced a ground fire before engine startup. The captain and the...
On 30 October 2009, Garuda Indonesia flight GA142, operated with a Boeing B737-300 registered PK-GGQ, was being flown on a scheduled passenger service from Soekarno–Hatta Airport, Jakarta to Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport, Banda Aceh, via Polonia Airport, Medan. There...
On the morning of 23rd June 1985 , Air India flight AI182 , a Boeing 747 aircraft VT-EFO (Kanishka) was on a scheduled passenger flight from Montreal and was proceeding to London enroute to Delhi and Bombay. It was being monitored at Shannon on the Radar Scope. At...
The occurrence of Vietnam Airlines flight HVN950 covered by this report falls under the category of “Flames in the designated fire zone of an engine” as prescribed in Clause 10, Article 166-4 of the Civil Aeronautics Regulations of Japan, and is classified as a...
Itek Air flight IRC6895 was a flight from Bishkek to Teheran, flown on 24 August, 2008 with a Boeing 737-200 aircraft registered ЕХ-009 . Souls onboard where the PIC plus co-pilot, cabin crew (3 persons) as well as 85 passengers including two service passengers: a...
On 21 December 2007 the crew of Ryanair flight FR6876 (Boeing 737, registration marks: EI-DHS) was performing a flight from Bergamo (LIME) to Kraków - Balice (EPKK). Meteorological conditions, according to the report received by the crew prior to the flight, allowed...
On 7 March 2007, Garuda Indonesia flight GA200, a Boeing B737-497 registered PK-GZC , was being operated by Garuda Indonesia on an instrument flight rules (IFR), scheduled passenger service, from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta to Adi Sucipto Airport, Yogyakarta....
The history of the Japan Airlines flight JAL93 is summarized below, based on the statements of the Pilot-In-Command (PIC), First Officer (FO), Cabin Attendants (CAs) and interpreters, and records of the flight recorder and Air Traffic Control (ATC) communication. On...
On 15 February 2011, a Lion Air flight LNI295 Registration PK-LHH was operated by PT Lion Mentari Airline as passenger service flight from Polonia International Airport, Medan (MES/ WIMM) to Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport, Pekanbaru (PKU / WIBB) . The aircraft...
Lufthansa flight LH4019 was a flight from Turin, Italy, to Frankfurt/Main, Germany operated with a Boeing 737-300 , registration marks D-ABEA. Five crew members and ninety passengers were on board. At 0735 hrs1 during approach to runway 25L in Frankfurt , Lufthansa...
On July 29, 2011, a Boeing 777-200, Egyptian registration SU-GBP, operated by EgyptAir, arrived from Madina, Saudi Arabia (Flight No 678) and stopped at Gate F7, terminal 3, Cairo international airport almost at 0500 UTC time. Necessary maintenance actions (After...
Ryanair flight RY1116 originally took-off from Dublin at 09.50 hrs on the 8 November 2004 and landed without incident at Reus in Spain at 12.16 hrs. Earlier that morning the Captain of EI-CJC had completed a company revenue return flight from Dublin to East Midlands...
On December 1st , 1985, at 21:30 UTC, Air France Boeing B-747-228-B-Combi, F-GCBC took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport - Paris, as flight AF091, with stops in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The Air France Flight AF091 crew, composed of a Captain, two copilots and...
British Airways flight BA2156 was operating a scheduled service from VC Bird International Airport, Antigua (ANU), West Indies to Robert L Bradshaw International Airport, St Kitts (SKB), West Indies and return. The sector from ANU to SKB was uneventful. On arrival at...
On February 10 (Sunday) 2008, a Boeing 737-300, registered B2906, operated by Air China flight CA161, took off from Beijing Capital International Airport (People’s Republic of China) bound for Kansai International Airport (Japan) on a scheduled Flight CA161 of the...
On 3 July 2014 at 1815 hours (local time), a Singapore Airlines flight SQ61 aircraft departed Houston in Texas, USA via the INDIE ONE Standard Instrument Departure (SID). The INDIE ONE required the aircraft to maintain 4,000ft or other altitudes as assigned by ATC....
Japan Airlines Flight JAL123 , during a flight from Tokyo to Osaka scheduled as flight JAL123 on August 12, 1985, experienced an emergency at approximately 18:25 hours when approaching east coast of Southern Izu Peninsula, and after a continued flight of about 30...
At 0922 local time (0122 UTC ) on 25 July 2008, a Boeing 747-438 QANTAS flight QF30, departed Hong Kong International Airport on a scheduled passenger transport service to Melbourne, Australia. On board the aircraft (operating as flight number QF30) were 350...
The aircraft was scheduled to fly on sector Dubai – Pune with Air India Charters flight IX212. The departure from Dubai was at 16:30 Z. The aircraft was cruising at FL 370, with Auto Pilot CMD ‘A’ and Auto Throttle engaged. At 17:53 Z after aircraft crossing PARAR and...
On 9 May 2008, a Boeing Company 737-8CX aircraft, registered PK-GEF, was being operated on a scheduled passenger service between Denpasar, Republic of Indonesia and Perth, WA, as Garuda Indonesia flight GA728. At about 1140 Western Standard Time1 , the flight crew...
On 18 January 2001, Qantas flight VH-TJX, a Boeing 737-476 aircraft, encountered microburst windshear at 0729 EST while conducting a go-around from runway 19 at Brisbane aerodrome during an intense thunderstorm. The aircraft was operating a scheduled fare-paying...
Jet Airways flight IX374 was operated on 17/08/2015 with a Boeing B737-800 aircraft registration VT-JFA. The flight was a Doha-Cochin sector . Both the operating crew were duly qualified on type B737 aircraft to operate the flight. There were 142 passengers and 08...
British Airways flight BA16 was operated with a Boeing B777-236 in service from Singapore International Airport to London on June 14th 2010. On departure from Singapore International Airport a number of EICAS (Engine Indicating and Crew Alerting System) messages were...
The fight crew of JET 2 flight G-CELC were carrying out an ILS approach to Chambery Airport, in IMC, with the autopilot engaged and the LOC (localiser) and VS (vertical speed) modes selected. The crew reported that they had observed some anomalies with the ILS and DME...
The Boeing B737 registered G-OBMP and operated by BMIBaby departed from Runway (RWY) 09 at EIKN at 14.20 hrs on a scheduled passenger flight to Manchester, U.K. (EGCC). The First Officer was the Pilot Flying. The Commander, who was the Pilot Monitoring, reported to...
On December 30th, 2007 the TAROM flight ROT3107, registered YR-BGC was scheduled for the flight ROT 3107 Bucharest – Sharm el Sheik. At 09:27 UTC, during the take-off procedure from runway 08R at “Henri Coandă” International Airport Bucharest, the aircraft collided...
The occurrence covered by this report falls under the category of “Attempted landing on a closed runway” as stipulated in Clause 2, Article 166-4 of the Civil Aeronautics Regulations of Japan, and is classified as a serious incident. On August 30 (Monday), 2010, a...
On November 27th 1987 at 14:23, SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS flight SA295, a Boeing 747-244B Combi of South African Airways, departed from Taipei's Chiang Kai Shek Airport for Mauritius' Plaisance Airport with 159 persons on board. In the main deck cargo hold 6 pallets of...
On 21 September 2004, at time 1302, a B747-400F operated by Korean Air was taking off from Oslo Airport Gardermoen for a KOREAN AIR flight KAL520 to Incheon International Airport, Seoul, Republic of Korea. During take-off run, the aircraft started to autorotate at...
On 29 December 2007, a Boeing Company 737-229 aircraft, registered OZJET AIRLINES flight VH-OBN, was being operated on a scheduled passenger service from Brisbane, Qld to Norfolk Island. At 0352 Coordinated Universal Time1, the flight crew briefed the cabin crew that...
On February 3, 2005. a Boeing 737-242 aircraft with Kyrgyz Republic registration EX·037 . operated by Phoenix Aviation , was conducting Kam Air flight RQ904 from Herat to Kabul. There were a total of 105 occupants on board the Aircraft , including eight crew members...
Singapore Airlines flight SIA236 was a scheduled service from Brisbane, Australia to Singapore operated with a Boeing B777-200. The flight was normal until the landing at 2035 hours at the Singapore Changi Airport. The first officer (FO) was the pilot flying (PF) the...
On 13 October 2010, a Boeing 717-200 (717) aircraft, registered VH-NXD (NXD), was being operated by Cobham Aviation Services Australia on a scheduled passenger flight from Perth to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Cobham Aviation B717 VH-NXD was due to depart at 1150...
On 17 January 2006 at 2315 hours local time, an Austrian Airlines Boeing 777-200 landed at Singapore Changi Airport from Melbourne, Australia. While parking at gate F58 , Austrian Airlines Boeing B777 OE-LPC taxied beyond the designated stop line and its left hand...
KLM flight KL1369 , operated with a Boeing B737 (registration PH-BDP), took off at 20.30 hours in the evening of 10 February 2010. It was dark at the time, with occasional light snowfall. KLM flight KL1369 was flown by a pilot in command and a first officer. Prior to...
Air India Express flight IX812 was a scheduled Quick Turn Around (QTA) daily flight , on sector Mangalore-Dubai-Mangalore. On 21st / 22nd May 2010, a similar flight was operated by the same cockpit crew , along with 4 Cabin crew. As per the schedule, the crew had been...
On January 16, 2002, at approximately 09:24 UTC, Garuda Indonesia flight GA421 , a Boeing 737-300, PK-GWA, ditched into the waters of the Bengawan Solo River, Central Java during a forced landing, following loss of power on both engines as the aircraft was descending...
China Airlines flight CAL604 was a flight from Taiwan to Hong Kong international airport operated with a Boeing B747-409B (B-165) operated on 04th November 1993. On the day of the China Airlines flight CAL605 accident, Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) was...
The aircraft was operating as British Airways flight BA888 (British Airways Overseas Division - BAOD) scheduled passenger service BA888 from London to Melbourne via Bahrain, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. The flight crew, consisting of the commander, co-pilot and flight...
The occurrence of Air Nippon flight ANA325 covered by this report falls under the category of “A case where aircraft crew executed an emergency maneuver during navigation in order to avoid a contact with the ground” as stipulated in Clause 5, Article 166-4 of the...
On May 25, 2002, China Airlines flight CI611 , a Boeing 747-200, Republic of China (ROC) registration B-18255, was a regularly scheduled flight from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport (CKS), Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC to Chek Lap Kok International Airport, Hong Kong....
On January 3, 2004, about 02:45:06 UTC, 04:45:06 Local time, Flash Airlines flight FSH604 , a Boeing 737-300, Egyptian registration SU-ZCF, crashed into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport (SSH) in South Sinai, Egypt. The...
During approach to Kittilä (EFKT) in Finland on 26 December 2012, LN-DYM, a Boeing 737-800 NG on Norwegian Air Shuttle flight NAX5630 from Helsinki airport (EFHK), came close to stalling. The outcome of a stall would most likely have been catastrophic, primarily...
On April 15, 2002, about 11:21:17 (02:21:17 UTC), Air China flight CCA129, a Boeing 767-200ER, Chinese registration B2552, operated by Air China, en route from Beijing, China to Busan, Korea, crashed on Mt. Dotdae, located 4.6 km north of runway 18R threshold at...
On April 29, 2013, about 1527 local time, a Boeing 747-400BCF, N-949CA, operated by National Air Cargo, Inc., dba National Airlines flight ISAF95AQ , crashed shortly after takeoff from Bagram Air Base, Bagram, Afghanistan. All seven crewmembers of National Airlines...
On 1 November 2007, a Boeing Company B737-200 aircraft, registered PK-RIL, operated by Mandala Airlines flight MDL260 , was on a scheduled passenger flight from Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, to Abdurrachman Saleh Airport, Malang, East Java....
The Air Malta flight AMC144 incident was notified to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) at 2105 hrs on 20 October 1993 and an investigation began the next day. The AAIB team comprised Mr R StJ Whidborne (Investigator in Charge), Mr A W Skinner (Operations)...
During the night of 04th May 2007, the B737-800, registration 5Y-KYA, operating as Kenya Airways flight KQA507 from Abidjan international airport (Cote d'Ivoire), to the Jorno Kenyatta airport Nairobi (Kenya), made a scheduled stop-over at the Douala international...
Air Berlin flight AB6777 was a Boeing 737-800 (B738) scheduled for a flight from Nürnberg (EDDN) to Düsseldorf (EDDL); departure time 2030 hrs. On board were six crew members and 125 passengers. Take-off run occurred with one hour delay at which the airplane veered to...
Air Florida flight QH90 was a scheduled flight on January 13, 1982 to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. There were 74 passengers, including 3 infants, and 5 crewmembers on board. The flight’s scheduled departure time was...
Ryanair flight FR058 departed London Stansted , the aircraft climbed to its allotted cruising level, with the Captain as the Pilot Flying (PF) and the First Officer as the Pilot Not Flying (PNF). This was the PF’s last day of duty for the Operator. He would be...
On October 31, 2000, at 2317 Taipei local time3 (1517 UTC), Singapore Airlines flight SQ006, a Boeing 747-400 aircraft, bearing Singapore registration 9V-SPK, struck barriers and construction equipment during takeoff on Runway 05R, a portion of which had been closed...
On 22 July 2011, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft registered PK-GGO was being operated by Garuda Indonesia flight GA292 , from Soekarno - Hatta International Airport (WIII) Jakarta to Abdul Rahman Saleh Airport (WARA) Malang. The flight crew member was three pilots which...
UTA Union des Transports Africains flight GIH141 was a weekly scheduled flight between Conakry (Guinea), Cotonou (Benin), Beirut (Lebanon) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates). A stopover at Kufra (Libya) was planned between Cotonou and Beirut. Having departed from...
Lauda Air flight NG004 was a scheduled passenger flight from Hong Kong to Vienna, Austria with an en route stop in Bangkok, Thailand. The flight departed Bangkok at 1602 hours on May 26, 1991 for the final flight sector to Vienna Austria. All pre-flight, ground, and...
Bhoja Air flight BHO213 , a Boeing B737-236A was scheduled to fly a domestic flight on 20th April, 2012 from Jinnah International Airport (JIAP) Karachi to Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIAP) Islamabad. The aircraft had 127 souls onboard including 06 flight...
On August 20, 2007, a Boeing 737-800, registered B18616, operated by China Airlines flight CI120 took off from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on a regularly scheduled Flight 120 of the company, and landed at Naha Airport. At about 10:33, immediately after the...
Pan American World Airways flight PA812 , a Boeing 707-321B aircraft, registered N892PA, was scheduled to operate a regular public transport flight direct from Sydney, Australia, to Honolulu, U.S.A. The flight is conducted by Pan American World Airways Inc. under the...
On Tuesday, 7 August 2012, a Boeing 757-21B aircraft, registration G-LSAH, was on JET 2 flight LS224 en route to the Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) in the United Kingdom from the Tenerife South Airport (TFS). It had previously made the flight in the opposite direction,...
Aloha Airlines flight AQ243 : on April 28, 1988, an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737, N73711, based at the Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, was scheduled for a series of interisland flights to be conducted under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 121. A...
The copilot of Singapore Airlines flight SQ327 was initially Pilot Flying (PF) during the flight Manchester - Munich. When it became apparent that the weather in Munich would be below the values under which the copilot was allowed to perform the landing, the Pilot in...
Asiana Cargo flight OZ991 (a Boeing 747-400F, HL7604), was a scheduled cargo flight from Incheon International Airport, Incheon, Republic of Korea, to Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Shanghai, China, that crashed into the international waters about 130 km west...
Air Canada flight ACA878 departed Toronto/Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Ontario (CYYZ), on 13 January 2011 at 2138 1 with 95 passengers, 6 flight attendants and 2 flight crew. The planned routing was north of the North Atlantic Organized Track System (OTS)...
Enerjet flight ENJ401 was operated with a Boeing B737-700 (registration C-GDEJ, serial number 32427) from Fort St. John to Fort Nelson, British Columbia. At 1117 Mountain Standard Time, during the landing rollout on Runway 03, Enerjet flight ENJ401 overran the runway...
Ryanair flight FR3531 departed from from Palma Mallorca (Spain) to Eindhoven (Netherlands) with 126 passengers and 6 crew. During the approach to Eindhoven Airport (the Netherlands) on 31 May 2013, Ryanair flight FR3531 a Boeing 737-800 was radar vectored towards...
During the takeoff of a KLM flight KL1673 from Amsterdam to Barcelona, the aircraft suffered a bird strike in the area of the nose landing gear during rotation. The flight crew informed the ATC and the flight continued without any abnormal indication in the cockpit....
On July 26, 2002, about 0537 eastern daylight time, Federal Express flight FX1478, a Boeing 727-232F (727), N497FE, struck trees on short final approach and crashed short of runway 9 at the Tallahassee Regional Airport (TLH), Tallahassee, Florida. Federal Express...
Ryanair flight FR1216 was coming from Belgium, was supposed to stop for 25 minutes at Limoges-Bellegarde aerodrome , without refuelling, then return to Belgium with more passengers. The copilot was PF on the leg. The ATIS information at 14 h 01, heard by the crew,...
The crew took off from Atlanta Hartsfield on a flight bound for Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. In cruise at FL 380, a cabin crew member noticed a smell chracteristic of an electrical fire at the level of seat 4F in Business Class. He turned off electrical power to...
On 23 January 2005 the cargo aircraft Boeing 747-212B took off from Dubai Airport at 2234 UTC for a flight to Düsseldorf. The Pilot in Command (PIC), the co-pilot and a flight engineer were aboard. After more than six hours of flight time the aircraft was the first...
On 30thJuly, 2011 Caribbean Airlines Flight BW523, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with 157 passengers and a crew of six, departed Piarco International Airport, (TTPP), Port of Spain Trinidad at 04:36hrs Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) on an instrument flight rules (IFR)...
The following elements are based on recorded data (QAR, FDR) and accounts from the flight crew. The CVR, which was safeguarded by the crew, was erased by mistake before it could be read out by the BEA. The crew reported that the flight was proceeding with no...
Boeing 747 , N739PA, arrived at London Heathrow Airport from San Francisco and parked on stand Kilo 14, to the south-east of Terminal 3. Many of the passengers for this aircraft had arrived at Heathrow from Frankfurt, West Germany on a Boeing 727, which was positioned...
The aircraft was scheduled to fly on sector DUBAI – PUNE with flight IX212, the aircraft was flying on route N571. The departure from Dubai was at 16:30 Z. The aircraft was cruising at FL 370, with Auto Pilot CMD ‘A’ and Auto Throttle engaged. At 17:53 Z after...
British Airways G-CPER incident, a Boeing B757-236 aircraft occurred on the first flight following a 26-day major maintenance check. Shortly after takeoff on a scheduled passenger flight from London Heathrow to Paris, a hot oil smell, that had been present in the...
On 13 April 2013, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft registered PK-LKS was being operated by PT Lion Mentari Airlines (Lion Air) on a scheduled passenger flight as LNI 904. The aircraft departed from Husein Sastranegara International Airport (WICC) Bandung at 0545 UTC to...
One of the pilots of a Shaheen flight NL142 was under the influence of alcohol, a medical report has revealed. On November 03rd 2015, a Shaheen Boeing 737-400 (reg. AP-BJO) flight NL142 was landing in Lahore (Pakistan ) for runway 36L with 112 passengers and 7 crew....
On 19 April 2014, during the descent of Flydubai Boeing 737-800, registration A6-FEK, to Kiev Boryspil International Airport, Ukraine, at approximately 15,000 feet altitude, the visual display unit (VDU) of the In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system at seat 9A started...
Asiana flight OZ214 : on July 6, 2013, about 1128 Pacific daylight time, a Boeing 777-200ER, Korean registration HL7742, operating as Asiana Airlines flight 214, was on approach to runway 28L when it struck a seawall at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), San...
ANA All Nippon Airways flight NH692 : on January 16, 2013, a Boeing 787-8, operated by All Nippon Airways Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “ANA”), registered JA804A, took off from Yamaguchi-Ube Airport for Tokyo International Airport at 08:11 as its scheduled...
Jet2 Holidays flight LS177 was a Boeing B737-804 (G-GDFJ) : as soon as the aircraft commenced its takeoff roll, both pilots commented on a strange smell. A few seconds later, due to what appeared to be smoke in the cabin, the Cabin Service Director (CSD) alerted the...
Air Nippon (now ANA) flight NH140 : on September 6 (Tuesday) 2011, a Boeing 737-700, registered JA16AN, operated by Air Nippon Co., Ltd., nosedived after having an unusual attitude (upset) at around 22:49 Japan Standard Time (JST: UTC+9hr, unless otherwise stated all...
Bradley First Air flight FAB6560 , Boeing 737-210C combi 2 aircraft departed Yellowknife (CYZF), Northwest Territories, at 1440 as First Air flight 6560 (FAB6560) on a charter flight to Resolute Bay (CYRB), Nunavut, with 11 passengers, 4 crew members, and freight on...
Southwest flight WN812 : on April 1, 2011, about 1558 mountain standard time (MST),1 a Boeing 737-3H4, N632SW, operating as Southwest Airlines flight 812 experienced a rapid decompression while climbing through flight level 340. The flight crew conducted an emergency...
American Airlines flight AA2253 : this report discusses the December 29, 2010, incident involving American Airlines flight 2253, a Boeing 757-200, N668AA, which ran off the departure end of runway 19 and came to a stop in deep snow after landing at Jackson Hole...
Tailwind Airlines flight TU750 was on approach to Lyon Saint-Exupéry, the crew made a non-precision localizer/DME approach to runway 36R. The cloud ceiling was close to the MDA. The final descent began before the final approach point published for the altitude of the...
Air France flight AF855 was the Lagos-Paris Charles de Gaulle flight , the final leg in the Paris - Lagos - Port Harcourt - Lagos – Paris rotation. The rotation began in Paris on January 9, and the Port Harcourt - Lagos flight was made on the day of the incident. The...
American Airlines Flight AA331, a Boeing 737-823 in United States registration N977AN, carrying 148 passengers, including three infants, and a crew of six, was being operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 121. The aircraft departed...
UPS flight UPS6 , a Boeing 747-44AF departed Dubai International Airport [DXB] on September 03rd 2010 on a scheduled international cargo flight [SCAT-IC] to Cologne [CGN], Germany. Twenty two minutes into the flight, at approximately 32,000 feet, the crew advised...
Europe Airpost flight FPO227 : the history of the flight is based on testimony from the pilots and analysis of the FDR parameters. The absence of the CVR recording (communications and aural warnings in the flight deck, in particular) and data from ATC (transcript of...
Turkish Airlines flight TK1951 was a Boeing 737-800 (flight TK1951) operated by Turkish Airlines , flying from Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Turkey to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, on 25 February 2009. As this was a ‘Line Flight Under Supervision’, there were three crew...
Continental Airlines flight CO1404 : on December 20, 2008, about 18:18 mountain standard time, Continental Airlines flight 1404, a Boeing 737-500, N18611, departed the left side of runway 34R during takeoff from Denver International Airport (DEN), Denver, Colorado. A...
Air Europa flight UX196 departed from Glasgow at 03:15 for Lanzarote with 74 passengers onboard. The flight was scheduled to last 4 hours and 19 minutes. The copilot (FO) was the pilot flying (PF). The climb and cruise flight phases at Flight Level (FL) 390 transpired...
On September 13, 2008 an Aeroflot–Nord flight crew (Captain and Co-pilot), were conducting a scheduled domestic passenger flight No. AFL 821 on a B-737-505 aircraft, registration VP-BKO, from Moscow (Sheremetyevo, UUEE) to Perm (Bolshoye Savino, USPP). Apart from the...
The Boeing 737-86N, registered SU-BPZ from Marsa Alam (Egypt), arrived at 21 h 25 at its parking space at area Q at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport three hours late. During taxiing, the Captain asked the police to intervene to question a passenger who had smoked in...
On May 25, 2008, at 11:31(UTC), a Kalitta Air B747-200 overran runway 20 of the Brussels Airport, Belgium after a Rejected Take-Off. The aircraft came to a stop 300m after the end of runway 20, above the railroad embankment. The aircraft was severely damaged; it broke...
Air Canada flight AC848 was a line flight from Toronto Pearson to London Heathrow on 28-01-2008, a Boeing B767-333 (C-FMXC). During the pre-flight preparations there was a potential for the flight to depart behind schedule. When the First Officer reported for duty he...
British Airways flight BA38 was on approach to London (Heathrow) from Beijing, China, at 720 feet agl, the right engine of G-YMMM ceased responding to autothrottle commands for increased power and instead the power reduced to 1.03 Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR). Seven...
Thomsonfly flight BY3894 , a Boeing 737-300 was on approach to Bournemouth Airport following a routine passenger flight from Faro, Portugal. Early in the ILS approach the auto-throttle disengaged with the thrust levers in the idle thrust position. The disengagement...
The event covered by this report falls under the category of “an aborted takeoff from a runway used by another aircraft” as stipulated in Clause 1, Article 166-4 of the Civil Aeronautics Regulations of Japan, and is classified as an aircraft serious incident. On June...
United Airlines flight UA955 : the accident occurred during engine start after pushback from the stand. After the right generator came online an electrical failure occurred in the right main bus. The failure resulted in severe internal arcing and short circuits inside...
Gol - Excel Air Services flight GLO1907 collided over Brasil on 29 September 2006. The regular air transport airplane was a Boeing 737-8EH, manufactured in the United States and registered in Brazil as PR-GTD, operated by the Brazilian airline company “Gol Transportes...
TNT Airways flight TAY325N was a scheduled cargo flight from Liège Airport to London Stansted Airport the crew diverted to Nottingham East Midlands Airport due to unexpectedly poor weather conditions at Stansted. The weather conditions at EMA required a CAT IIIA...
Ryanair flight RYR9853 was carrying out a routine scheduled passenger flight between London Gatwick Airport (LGW) and Ireland West Airport (EIKN), Knock, Co. Mayo. The major part of the flight was operationally uneventful until the approach phase to Ireland West was...
Ryanair flight RYR9672 was a Boeing B737-800 (EI-DAV) on approach to Rome on 07/09/2005. The event in question was determined by a series of interconnected circumstances, which finally led to the missed approach maneuver at Fiumicino airport in unsafe separation with...
Helios Airways flight HCY522 : on 14 August 2005, a Boeing 737-300 aircraft, registration number 5B-DBY, operated by Helios Airways, departed Larnaca, Cyprus at 06:07 h for Prague, Czech Republic, via Athens, Hellas. The aircraft was cleared to climb to FL340 and to...
Air Nippon flight EH2142 : on July 5 (Wednesday), 2006 at 07:24 JST, a Boeing 737-500 airplane, JA8419, operated by Air Nippon Co., Ltd. took off Fukuoka Airport as All Nippon Airways scheduled flight 2142. At about 08:10, while flying at approximately 37,000 ft...
Singapore Airlines flight SQ286 accident took place on takeoff from Auckland airport on March 12, 2003. [...] the captain taxied 9V-SMT to the end of runway 23 Left to use the full runway length for take-off. The pilots had set the flap at Flap 20 and the STAB TRIM at...
On Thursday 6 March 2003, the Boeing 737 registered 7T-VEZ, operated by Air Algérie, was taking off from Tamanrasset to undertake, with a three-hour delay, scheduled flight DAH 6289 to Ghardaïa and Algiers. Six crew members (two flight crew and four cabin crew) and 97...
On Sunday 5 November 2000, the Boeing 747-200 registered TJ-CAB operated by Cameroon Airlines was carrying out the scheduled service between Douala and Paris Charles de Gaulle under the operational call sign UYC070. Take-off from Douala took place at 14 h 25 about...
Soutwesth Airlines flight WN1455 : on March 5, 2000, about 1811 Pacific standard time (PST), Southwest Airlines Inc., flight WN1455, a Boeing 737-300 (737), N668SW, overran the departure end of runway 08 after landing at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (BUR),...
Korean Air Cargo flight KAL8509 arrived at Stansted Airport after a flight from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Prior to leaving the aircraft, the flight engineer made an entry in the Technical Log to the effect that the captain's Attitude Director Indicator (ADI) was...
EGYPTAIR flight MS990 : at 0148:03, the command captain stated, "Excuse me, [nickname for relief first officer], while I take a quick trip to the toilet before it gets crowded. While they are eating, and I’ll be back to you." While the command captain was speaking,...
On 23 September 1999, at about 2247 local time, a Qantas Boeing 747-438 aircraft registered VH-OJH (callsign Qantas One) overran runway 21 Left (21L) while landing at Bangkok International Airport, Thailand. The overrun occurred after the aircraft landed long and...
United Airlines flight UA965 was in cruising flight near Paris during an ETOPS flight from Zurich to Washington, DC, abnormal warnings appeared on the flight deck instrumentation and circuit breakers began tripping. The commander, in consultation with the operator's...
Silkair flight MI185 took off at 08:37:13 (15:37:13 local time) from Runway 25R with the Captain as the handling pilot. The flight received clearance to climb to 35,000 feet (Flight Level 350) and to head directly to Palembang. At 08:47:23 the aircraft passed FL245....
Korean Air flight KL801, a Boeing 747-3B5B (747-300), Korean registration HL7468, operated by Korean Air Company, Ltd., crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam on August 6, 1997, about 0142:26 Guam local time. Flight 801 departed from Kimpo International Airport, Seoul, Korea,...
TWA Trans World Airlines flight TWA800 , a Boeing 747-131, N93119, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York on July 17, 1996, about 2031 eastern daylight time. TWA Trans World Airlines flight TWA800 was operating under the provisions of 14 Code of...
Tower Air flight TOW41 : on December 20, 1995, at 1136, Tower Air flight 41, a Boeing B-747, veered off the left side of runway 4L during an attempted takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Jamaica, New York. The flight was a regularly scheduled...
British Midland flight BMA92 left Heathrow Airport for Belfast at 1952 hrs with 8 crew and 118 passengers (including 1 infant) on board . As the aircraft was climbing through 28,300 feet the outer panel of one blade in the fan of the No 1 (left) engine detached. This...
Dan Air Services B707 G-BEBP was engaged on a non-scheduled international cargo night on behalf of International Aviation Services for Zambian Airlines. It was carrying a through load of palletised freight from London Heathrow to Lusaka International Airport, with...
KLM - PAN AM flights KL4805 - PAA1736 (the "Tenerife's accident") the highest death toll accident in aviation history. The KLM Boeing 747, registration PH-BUF, took off from Schipol Airport (Amsterdam) at 0900 hours on 27 March 1977, en route to Las Palmas de Gran...
An aviation accident is an incident in which an aircraft is damaged or destroyed as a result of a collision, fire, structural failure, or other event. Aviation accidents can be caused by a variety of factors, including mechanical failure, pilot error, adverse weather conditions, and sabotage. Aviation accidents can result in fatalities, injuries, and damage to property.
An aviation incident is an occurrence, other than an accident, that affects or could affect the safety of aircraft operations. Examples of aviation incidents include near collisions, runway incursions, and unruly passenger incidents.
A serious incident in aviation refers to an event that could have resulted in an accident or that had the potential to cause serious injury or death. Some examples of serious incidents in aviation include engine failure, in-flight fires, and loss of control of the aircraft.