Cruise is the level portion of aircraft travel where flight is most fuel efficient. It occurs between ascent and descent phases and is usually the majority of a journey. Technically, cruising consists of heading (direction of flight) changes only at a constant airspeed and altitude. It ends as the aircraft approaches the destination where the descent phase of flight commences in preparation for landing.
For most commercial passenger aircraft, the cruise phase of flight consumes the majority of fuel. As this lightens the aircraft considerably, higher altitudes are more efficient for additional fuel economy. However, for operational and air traffic control reasons it is necessary to stay at the cleared flight level. On long haul flights, the pilot may climb from one flight level to a higher one as clearance is requested and given from air traffic control. This maneuver is called a step climb.
LAM Mozambique Airlines flight TM470 departed on the 29th November 2013 at 09:26 from Maputo International Airport on a scheduled flight to Luanda, Angola, and was operated with an Embraer ERJ 190-100 aircraft with registration number C9-EMC . On board the aircraft...
Malaysia Airlines flight MH122 was a flight operated on 18 January 2018 with an Airbus A330-323 aircraft registered 9M-MTM as a scheduled passenger flight from Sydney, New South Wales, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. On board Malaysia Airlines flight MH122 were two flight...
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 an occurrence had taken place, crew member incapacitation involving Air Baltic flight BTI416 operated with a Bombardier DHC-8-403, registration YL-BAJ. The aircraft was operating a scheduled passenger service from Riga (EVRA) to...
West Air Sweden flight SWN294 crashed on 8 January 2016 during a commercial cargo flight from Oslo/Gardermoen Airport (ENGM) to Tromsø/Langnes Airport (ENTC) and involved an aeroplane of the model CL-600-2B19, manufactured by Bombardier Inc. The aeroplane was operated...
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...
Singapore Airlines flight SQ446 was operated with an Airbus A330 aircraft (registration 9V-STO) at 18:58 (Singapore time) on 22 April 2013 from Singapore Changi Airport bound for Dhaka, Bangladesh. Eighty-four minutes into the flight, while cruising at 36,000 feet...
The occurrence covered by this report falls under the category of “Abnormal decompression inside an aircraft” as stipulated in Clause 11, Article 166-4 of the Ordinance for Enforcement of the Civil Aeronautics Act of Japan, and is classified as a serious incident. On...
31 minutes after taking off from Taiwan's CKS International Airport at 0746 local time on May 8, 2000, and during cruising level flight and heading for Ho-chiming City, Vietnam, the first officer of China Airlines flight CI681, an Airbus A300-600R with registered...
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....
A line flight from Charled De Gaulle Paris airport (CDG) and Cairo international airport has been reported missing this early morning on the Mediterranean sea, next to waypoint KUMBI. The flight was an Egyptair flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo that disappeared from...
The aircraft was operating scheduled Air Canada Flight AC866 from Montreal Mirabel to London Heathrow. At approximately 0625 hrs, as the aircraft was approaching the area of Manchester at FL 370, the second officer made a public address (PA) broadcast to the...
On December 21, 2002, at 0152 Taipei local time, TransAsia Airways flight GE791 cargo, aircraft type ATR72-200, registration B-22708, encountered a severe icing during its flight and crashed into the sea 17 kilometers southwest of Makung city, Penghu Islands. Both...
Air France flight AF3575 took off from Antananarivo airport (Madagascar) at 22 h 45 bound for Paris Charles de Gaulle. At 23 h 10, they received an ACARS message describing the 22 h 30 satellite images. They concluded that they would encounter highly convective zones...
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...
On the 29th November 2013 at 09:26 UTC, an Embraer ERJ-190 with registration number C9-EMC operated by LAM - Mozambique Airlines flight TM470 departed Maputo International Airport on a scheduled flight to Luanda, Angola. The flight operations were normal and the...
Blu Line flight BLE914P was a positioning flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Kuwait. The co-pilot was the PF. During the flight preparations, the PF input the information into the PMS: when inputting the aircraft weight, he mistakenly entered the aircraft’s zero...
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...
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)...
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...
Atlantic Southwest Airlines flight EV529 : on August 21, 1995, about 1253 eastern daylight time, an Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S. A. (Embraer) EMB-120RT, N256AS, airplane operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines Inc., (ASA) as ASE flight 529, experienced the...
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...
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...
During cruise at FL250, approximately 130NM from Riga near to FIR BDRY (IGORO, 562136N; 0281200E) the Captain said to First Officer that his stomach is not feeling well and went to lavatory. On the way to the lavatory he fell on the floor and fainted. Cabin crew No1...
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...
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...
The Air France flight AF471 took off from Caracas-Maiquetía Simón Bolívar airport at 23 h 38 for Paris Charles de Gaulle. The captain was PF. At 23 h 52, climbing through FL180, the PF and the PNF both set the range of their Navigation Display (ND) to 320 NM. Between...
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...
Finnair flight AY831 : on 5 March 2011 at approximately 06:50 a pressurisation failure led to a serious incident on Finnair flight AY831. An Airbus A320-214 airliner, registration OH-LXL with call sign FIN831L, was on a scheduled flight from Helsinki to London. The...
Qantas flight QF32 departed Changi Airport, Singapore on a scheduled passenger flight to Sydney, Australia. About 4 minutes after take-off, while the aircraft was climbing through about 7,000 ft, the flight crew heard two ‘bangs’ and a number of warnings and cautions...
CATHAY flight CPA780 declared “MAYDAY” when approaching Hong Kong International Airport (VHHH) with control problem on both engines. The aircraft landed at a groundspeed of 231 knots, with No. 1 engine stuck at about 70 % N1 and No. 2 stuck at about 17 % N1. Five main...
XL Airways Germany flight GXL888T from Perpignan – Rivesaltes aerodrome was undertaken in the context of the end of a leasing agreement, before the return of D-AXLA to its owner. The programme of planned checks could not be performed in general air traffic, so the...
Qantas flight QF72 : at 0132 Universal Time Coordinated (0932 local time) on 7 October 2008, an Airbus A330-303 aircraft, registered VH-QPA and operated as Qantas flight 72, departed Singapore on a scheduled passenger transport service to Perth, Western Australia. At...
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...
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...
Easy Jet flight EZY6074 serious incident occurred to an Airbus A319-111 aircraft operating a scheduled passenger flight between Alicante, Spain and Bristol, UK. The aircraft had experienced a fault affecting the No 1 (left) electrical generator on the previous flight...
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...
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...
Tuninter flight TUI1153 took place on August 6th, 2005, at 13.39 UTC (15.39 local time) and involved an ATR 72-202 aircraft, registration marks TS-LBB, operating the flight TUI 1153 from Bari to Djerba (Tunisia). The aircraft had ditched into the sea off the coast of...
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...
Pinnacle Airlines flight 9E3701 : on October 14, 2004, about 2215:06 central daylight time, Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701 (doing business as Northwest Airlink), a Bombardier CL-600-2B19, N8396A, crashed into a residential area about 2.5 miles south of Jefferson City...
On August 24, 2001, Air Transat Flight TSC236, an Airbus 330-243 aircraft, was on a scheduled flight from Toronto Lester B Pearson Airport, Ontario (CYYZ), Canada to Lisbon Airport (LPPT), Portugal with 13 crew and 293 passengers on board. The Captain was carrying out...
Northern Executive Aviation flight NEX4B , a Learjet 35A registered G-MURI took off from Manchester UK on 2 May 2000 at 9 h 35, for a positioning flight to Farnborough. The flight took forty minutes. At 11 h 22, it left Farnborough bound for Nice as flight number...
Olympic Airways flight OAL3838 , performed with a Falcon 900B (SX-ECH) from Athens to Bucharest was as a government flight. During climb after flap and slats were retracted, the flight crew noticed, on the warning panel, the "PITCH FEEL" light came on. The "PITCH...
Swissair flight SR111 crashed near Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada on September 02nd 1998. At 0018 UTC (2018 eastern daylight savings time) on 2 September 1998, the McDonnell Douglas2 (MD) MD-11, operating as SR 111, departed John F. Kennedy (JFK) International...
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....
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...
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.