On March 5, 2015, at 1102 eastern standard time, Delta Airlines flight DL1086 , a Boeing MD-88, N909DL, was landing on runway 13 at LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York, New York, when it departed the left side of the runway, contacted the airport perimeter fence, and...
Turkish Airlines flight TK981 after a stop at Orly and a delay to its schedule because of the last minute embarkation of numerous passengers, TC-JAV took off for London at 1132 hrs. Shortly after 1140 hrs, when the Turkish Airlines flight TK981 had reached 12,000 feet...
The accident aircraft, Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter flight KFA300 was under charter to Purolator Courier Ltd. (Purolator). Since April 1998, the aircraft had been dedicated to transporting cargo on a route between Vancouver and Nanaimo, British Columbia. On...
Airport with the first officer in the right cockpit seat as ‘Pilot Flying’ (PF). The commander, as ‘Pilot Non-Flying’ (PNF) was in the left cockpit seat and another first officer qualified pilot was seated on the ‘Jump Seat’. The Centurion Air Cargo MD11 N701GC flight...
The Spanair flight JK3203 accident was notified to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) Watch Manager at Liverpool Airport. The investigation was conducted by: Mr D King (Investigator-in-Charge), Miss G M Dean (Operations), Mr...
The evolution of the Aom Minerve flight IW68 was analyzed on the basis of flight documents, recorded data and witness statements. On Sunday 23 November 1997, the crew flew the Toulon-Orly-Marseille route stages : on the previous day, they had flown the...
The SCANDINAVIAN SAS flight OY-KHP crew took off from Copenhagen airport at 16 h 34 for Grenoble. At approximately 17 h 53, the crew began the descent for an ILS approach on runway 09. The meteorological conditions on arrival were VFR conditions, at night with an...
On 24 July 2014, the MD-83 registered EC-LTV was programmed to operate scheduled SWIFTAIR flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou and bound for Algiers. One hundred and ten passengers and six crew members were on board. The SWIFTAIR flight AH5017 plan filed planned a departure...
On February 7, 2006, about 2359 eastern standard time, UPS flight UPS1307 (United Parcel Service) , a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71F (N-748UP) landed at its destination airport, Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a cargo smoke...
In preparation for Air New Zealand flight TE901 (also known as the Mt.Erebus crash) two of the pilots attended a route qualification briefing. This briefing consisted of an audio visual presentation, a review of a printed briefing sheet and a subsequent 45 minute...
Delta Airlines flight DL129 was on a scheduled public transport flight from Atlanta Georgia (ATL) in the USA, to Dublin Airport (EIDW), with a planned transit to Shannon Airport (EINN) and return to ATL. A total of 3 flight crew, including a Relief First Officer...
On 27 July 2010, Lufthansa Cargo flight GEC8460 was scheduled to depart from the Frankfurt International Airport, Germany at 01h00 UTC for a cargo flight to the King Khalid International Airport – Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The departure was delayed by...
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...
American Airlines flight AA1572 : on November 12, 1995, at 0055 eastern standard time a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, N566AA, owned by American Airlines and operated as flight AA1572, was substantially damaged when it impacted trees in East Granby, Connecticut, while on...
Spanair flight JKK5022 was an MD82 (EC-HFP) that crashed in Madrid (Spain) on Aug. 20th 2008 : the aircraft stalled after liftoff and crashed : 17 passengers + 1 crew member survived the crash. The crew lost control of the airplane as a consequence of entering a stall...
Onur Air flight OHY2263 was a MD-88 (Boeing McDonnel Douglas) that took off at the Groningen Airport Eelde. On June 17th, 2003 the crew rejected the take-off at a late stage, as a result of which the aircraft overran the runway ending. The aircraft and part of the...
SAS flight SK686 accident took place on the 8th of October 2001, at 06.10 UTC, a Boeing MD-87, registration marks SE-DMA operated by SAS, while on takeoff run on runway 36R of Milano Linate airport, collided with a Cessna 525-A, registration marks D-IEVX which taxied...
Air Liberté Streamline Aviation flights IJ8807 SSW200 : the MD 83...
Alaska Airlines flight AS261 crashed on January 31, 2000, about 1621 Pacific standard time, Alaska Airlines, Inc., flight AS261, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, N963AS : it crashed into the Pacific Ocean about 2.7 miles north of Anacapa Island, California. The 2 pilots, 3...
American Airlines flight AA1420 : on June 1, 1999, at 2350:44 central daylight time, American Airlines flight AA1420, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82), N215AA, crashed after it overran the end of runway 4R during landing at Little Rock National Airport in Little...
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...
Federal Express flight FX14 : on July 31, 1997, about 0132 eastern daylight time, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, N611FE, operated by Federal Express, Inc., (FedEx) as flight 14, crashed while landing on runway 22R at Newark International Airport, Newark, New Jersey (EWR)....
Scandinavian SAS flight SAS751 took off on 27 December 1991 at 0847 hrs from Stockholm/Arlanda airport. It had landed at Stockholm/Arlanda at approx 2210 hrs the previous day and had been parked outdoors overnight. Prior to takeoff the aircraft was de-iced. The...
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.