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An Air Malta crewman performing a pre-flight inspection of an Airbus A320.. Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation.This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure.
This year hasn’t started well for aviation safety, with a runway collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport and a door plug blowing out mid-air from an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 in January, and with ...
In just the first two weeks of January, we saw two major incidents: a Japan Airlines jet that struck a Japanese Coast Guard plane on the runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, and an explosive ...
Plane accidents such as the collision above Reagan National Airport can trigger aerophobia, the fear of flying. ... and that the incident was an incredibly rare one and that millions of safe ...
Blériot XI, civil registration G-AANG.Built in 1909 and operated by the Shuttleworth Collection in the United Kingdom, this is the world's oldest airworthy aircraft. In aviation, airworthiness is the measure of an aircraft's suitability for safe flight.
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
Taking first place, Air New Zealand was named this year’s safest company for full-service air travel. Qantas ranked second, while Cathay Pacific, Qatar Airways, and Emirates scored joint third ...
Pilots landing a Boeing 777. In aviation, the sterile flight deck rule or sterile cockpit rule is a procedural requirement that during critical phases of flight (normally below 10,000 ft or 3,000 m), only activities required for the safe operation of the aircraft may be carried out by the flight crew, and all non-essential activities in the cockpit are forbidden.