aircraft accident Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/aircraft-accident/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:12:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://aviospace.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/463575282_2477404082464408_3209599391009761950_n-150x150.jpg aircraft accident Archives - aviospace.org https://aviospace.org/tag/aircraft-accident/ 32 32 How Common and Dangerous Are Bird Strikes in Pakistani Aviation? https://aviospace.org/how-common-and-dangerous-are-bird-strikes-in-pakistani-aviation/ https://aviospace.org/how-common-and-dangerous-are-bird-strikes-in-pakistani-aviation/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:11:57 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=17021 Pakistan sits on the Central Asian Flyway, the migratory corridor that funnels birds between Siberia and South Asia, and that geography collides directly with the country’s busiest runways. Between 2018 and 2022 alone, Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) recorded 622 bird strike incidents nationwide, an average of well over one every three days, according to […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/how-common-and-dangerous-are-bird-strikes-in-pakistani-aviation/feed/ 0 Nearly 100 Aircraft Lost: How Common & Dangerous Are Bird Strikes in Nepalese Aviation? https://aviospace.org/nearly-100-aircraft-lost-how-common-dangerous-are-bird-strikes-in-nepalese-aviation/ https://aviospace.org/nearly-100-aircraft-lost-how-common-dangerous-are-bird-strikes-in-nepalese-aviation/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:57:21 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=14670 Nepal is home to 871 of the world’s roughly 10,000 bird species, and that extraordinary biodiversity collides with the nation’s demanding aviation environments. Between 1990 and 2023, Nepal lost at least 92 airplanes and helicopters and 817 people in civil aviation accidents attributable to causes including engine failure, weather constraints, and bird strikes, according to […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/nearly-100-aircraft-lost-how-common-dangerous-are-bird-strikes-in-nepalese-aviation/feed/ 0 3 Levels, 12 Human-Factor Risks and 1 Critical Skill: Understanding Situational Awareness in Aviation https://aviospace.org/workplace-situational-awareness/ https://aviospace.org/workplace-situational-awareness/#respond Tue, 26 May 2026 17:52:37 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=14519 ICAO attributes approximately 75 percent of all aircraft accidents to lapses in human performance, and within that category, the loss of situational awareness ranks among the most frequently cited contributing factors in accident investigations across the world. The term entered formal aviation parlance in the late 1980s, when psychologist Mica Endsley — who would later […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/workplace-situational-awareness/feed/ 0 Sioux City Plane Crash: How 4 Pilots Landed a DC-10 With Zero Hydraulic Control https://aviospace.org/sioux-city-plane-crash-united-flight-232/ https://aviospace.org/sioux-city-plane-crash-united-flight-232/#respond Wed, 20 May 2026 17:52:13 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=14402 On 19 July 1989, United Airlines (UA) Flight 232, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the Denver–Chicago–Philadelphia corridor, suffered a catastrophic uncontained failure of its tail-mounted No. 2 engine at 37,000 feet above northern Iowa, severing all three of its independent hydraulic systems simultaneously. Of the 296 people on board — 285 passengers and 11 crew […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/sioux-city-plane-crash-united-flight-232/feed/ 0 How does an elevator work in an aircraft? https://aviospace.org/how-does-an-elevator-work-in-an-aircraft/ https://aviospace.org/how-does-an-elevator-work-in-an-aircraft/#respond Tue, 19 May 2026 17:29:43 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=14366 The aircraft elevator is one of the three primary flight control surfaces that govern fixed-wing flight, alongside the ailerons and the rudder. Situated at the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer in the tail section (a region aeronautical engineers call the empennage), the elevator controls the aircraft’s pitch: the rotation of the nose up or […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/how-does-an-elevator-work-in-an-aircraft/feed/ 0 In-flight Medical Emergencies: The Role of Cabin Crew https://aviospace.org/inflight-medical-emergencies-cabin-crew/ https://aviospace.org/inflight-medical-emergencies-cabin-crew/#respond Sat, 16 May 2026 17:16:14 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=14242 A landmark 2025 Duke Health study, published in JAMA Network Open and described by its lead researcher as “the largest and most comprehensive study of in-flight medical emergencies ever conducted,” analyzed more than 77,000 medical events across 84 airlines covering over 3.1 billion passenger boardings between 2022 and 2023, and found that one in every […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/inflight-medical-emergencies-cabin-crew/feed/ 0 Nepal’s Deadliest Air Crashes: Inside the Country’s Troubled Aviation History https://aviospace.org/major-plane-crashes-nepal/ https://aviospace.org/major-plane-crashes-nepal/#respond Wed, 13 May 2026 13:33:07 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=14155 Nepal occupies a paradox in global aviation. It is a country of extraordinary natural allure, especially with regards to the Everest region where thousands of trekkers and mountaineers come. But the very terrain that draws millions to Everest has also contributed to crashes in Lukla Airport, which is, albeit falsely, considered to be the most […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/major-plane-crashes-nepal/feed/ 0 What Caused the 9N-AMS Crash? Nepal’s Final Report on Altitude Air’s AS350B3e Accident Explained https://aviospace.org/altitude-air-as350b3e-lobuche-crash-report-whiteout-nepal/ https://aviospace.org/altitude-air-as350b3e-lobuche-crash-report-whiteout-nepal/#respond Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:45:39 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=13763 The final investigation report into the crash of an Altitude Air’s Airbus AS350B3e registered 9N-AMS that met an accident on October 29, 2025, to operational shortcomings rather than mechanical failure. The helicopter lost control during landing after encountering whiteout conditions on a snow-covered helipad. The rescue charter flight originated from Tenzing-Hillary Airport (LUA), with the […]

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]]> https://aviospace.org/altitude-air-as350b3e-lobuche-crash-report-whiteout-nepal/feed/ 0 Ajit Pawar Plane Crash: What Happened, Where It Happened, and What We Know So Far https://aviospace.org/ajit-pawar-plane-crash-explained/ https://aviospace.org/ajit-pawar-plane-crash-explained/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:23:17 +0000 https://aviospace.org/?p=12261 At a time when India is reeling with the investigation of AI 171, and only a day after there was excitement about a $5.4 billion Vadhavan airport being built, Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was killed when the Learjet 45XR business aircraft he was aboard crash-landed near Baramati Airport, Pune district. The […]

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