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Tales from the Flight Deck Podcast: Qantas QF30 and the Mysterious Explosion from 2021-08-03T13:57:41
Captain John Bartels and crew were flying in a Boeing 747 in perfect conditions when a sudden explosion caught their attention, made the ...
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Tales from the Flight Deck, Episode 29: Landing Fast with Stuck Throttles in an Airbus A330 from 2021-03-15T20:54:05
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Week ending May 8, 2020: Bizav Flights Rising, Bombardier Q1, NBAA and Gulfstream Layoffs, JetSuite Bankrupt, Daher Intros 2020 TBM 940 from 2020-05-08T14:25:06
In this week’s episode, AIN London-based editor Charles Alcock gives an overview of the latest WingX data, which indicates that business aviation flight activity is awakening from its Covid-19-i...
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The Atlas Air Flight 3591 accident; what went so wrong? from 2020-02-10T14:07:59
A routine air cargo run from Miami to Houston meets a tragic end, and information released by investigators paints the picture of a confused flight crew fighting desperately to regain control, a...
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Re-Post Flight-By-Wire Failure (Full Episode) from 2019-12-17T14:15:40
When Pilots Break the Rules from 2019-11-20T15:09:41
It's an all-too human tendency, borne from our natural desire to find quicker solutions not only on the flight deck - but also in our daily lives. It's also something a...
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Airmanship Saves Southwest Flight from 2019-10-25T18:16:45
A Southwest Airlines flight crew finds themselves in a situation they'd never experienced before when their Boeing 737 suffers an uncontained engine failure on a flight...
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Avoiding King Air Rollover Tragedies from 2019-09-18T13:36:14
Over the past five years, one of the world’s most popular, dependable aircraft has been involved in a series of accidents—all of them fatal, all of them on takeoff. In ...
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Grappling with Grief from 2019-08-15T18:42:41
DEF Contamination from 2019-07-12T19:00:22
Mistaking diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) additive for fuel system icing inhibitor PRIST on the flight line is a growing problem on ramps all over the world. This can be dis...
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Otto's Pilots Part 2 from 2019-06-17T15:13:08
Unable to discern the fate of the small American delegation trying to win the freedom of an injured American college student from North Korea, a Phoenix Air flight crew decides to launch on its ...
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Otto’s Pilots Part 1 from 2019-05-17T14:30:14
A call for help from Washington, DC to Phoenix Air, based at a tiny airport in Cartersville, Georgia: Can you fly a medivac mission right away? The destination: North Korea. This is the first of...
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Connecting Planes in Trouble with Ships at Sea from 2019-04-17T20:36:35
A World War II era bomber pressed into transoceanic service as a freighter is lost. It’s night. The water below is frigid. Whether the crew survives depends on how clos...
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Episode 19: Flight Deck Automation after Indonesia and Ethiopia from 2019-03-26T14:27:38
After the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, the question is whether cockpit automation is working for pilots or pilots are working for the automation....
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Flight Deck Extra - Do You See What I See from 2019-03-18T17:46:42
Listen as these aviation professionals discuss how critical it is to not just understand weather but to understand how to know the limits of weather depiction. As you will hear, that can vary d...
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Into the Storm from 2019-03-15T19:06:27
What makes an otherwise safe pilot believe he or she can pick through the cells of a thunderstorm? In this episode, Wilson Khors and his copilot become so transfixed on...
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Emergency Response from 2019-02-19T14:20:41
When an aircraft emergency situation strikes, as a pilot, how prepared will you be to deal with it? For both an experienced aviator with thousands of hours of stick time and a novice on the firs...
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When it all Goes Sideways from 2019-01-15T22:34
Having reached their 43,000-foot cruise altitude, the crew of a corporate Citation XLS had their world almost literally turned upside down. Like a rogue wave far out at sea, clear air turbulence...
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Familiar Departure, Busted Altitude from 2018-12-18T16:58:50
After an unanticipated en route stop-over throws a curve to an experienced crew, they fall victim to an error of omission that could have been disastrous. Leaving Denver International Airport fo...
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One Turn of the Wrench Exposes SMS Flaws from 2018-11-15T15:39:31
While safety management systems (SMS) are powerful tools that are now seeing widespread adoption throughout the aviation industry, if not fully utilized and embraced from the top to bottom of an...
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Familiarity Breeds Complacency from 2018-10-15T08:00
Pilot complacency during preflight inspection nearly led to disaster on a brisk October day in 2008. As an experienced flight crew readying for a short repositioning hop on that crystal clear mo...
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Takeoff and Landing Assessments, Part 2 from 2018-05-11T17:51:52
On January 19, 2011, a Citation X flying from Providence, Rhode Island, to Waukegan National Airport in Illinois slid off the runway. This was six years before TALPA, the Takeoff and Landing Per...
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Flight Deck Extra: Top-of-Descent Landing Assessment from 2018-03-20T20:00:43
Listen to a two-member flight crew make a top-of-decent assessment in this bonus episode of AIN’s Tales from the Flight Deck.
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Takeoff And Landing Assessments, Part 1 from 2018-02-26T12:30:22
On Dec. 8, 2005, Southwest Airlines 1248 was completing its trip from Baltimore when it plowed through a runway barrier and skidded onto the streets of Chicago. The Boeing 737 collided with two ...
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Flying Under The Influence, Part 2 from 2018-01-12T15:12:39
The second installment of AIN’s The Human Factor, Flying Under the Influence, continues the discussion about pilots who suffer from drug and alcohol addiction. Dr. Quay C. Snyder, the president,...
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Flying Under The Influence, Part 1 from 2017-12-15T15:23:49
Passengers put their lives in the hands of their flight crews when they step onto an airplane. But what if pilots violate the trust passengers bestow? In 1990, Lyle Prouse was the first pilot ar...
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Fly - By - Wire Failure, Part 2 from 2017-11-20T18:13:10
While flying an Airbus A330 at FL370 over the Indian Ocean from Singapore to Perth in 2008, pilot Kevin Sullivan found himself dealing with malfunctioning primary flight control computers. The a...
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Fly - By - Wire Failure, Part 1 from 2017-11-07T19:50:40
On Oct. 7, 2008, Qantas Flight 72 was flying over the Indian Ocean from Singapore to Perth, Australia. Kevin Sullivan, pilot-in-command of the Airbus A330, was flying on autopilot at 37,000 feet...
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The Perils Of Hypoxia from 2017-10-23T15:05:59
Pilot George Braly recalls a flight in which his portable oxygen line becomes kinked and he ultimately loses conciousness. George is awakened by ATC and is able to increase the oxygen flow and s...
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Engine Fire Forces Water Landing, Part 2 from 2017-10-04T19:43:51
After Dennis Murphy delivered five charter passengers to Havana, Cuba, on February 20, 2003, during the return trip one of the engines on his Cessna 402B burst into flames while he was flying ov...
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Engine Fire Forces Water Landing, Part 1 from 2017-09-19T13:38:08
After dropping five charter passengers in Havana, Cuba, on February 20, 2003, one of the engines on Dennis Murphy's Cessna 402B developed a catastrophic engine fire over the Straights of Florida...
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Fuel Emergency—Flying on Empty from 2017-09-01T13:26:28
How could an instrument-rating student and a flight instructor run out of fuel on a training flight? High-time flight instructor Brian Lloyd recalls his instrument training and an incident that ...
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Flying into a Thunderstorm, Part 2 from 2017-08-15T18:47:28
In the second episode of AIN's The Human Factor, we pick up with Tim Valentine just after flying his SR22 into the back of a thunderstorm. This is part 2 of Tim's story. If you have not yet list...
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Flying into a Thunderstorm, Part 1 from 2017-07-25T15:10:40
In the inaugural episode of AIN's The Human Factor, we explore the factors that led up-to Tim Valentine flying his Cirrus SR22 into a thunderstorm. On May 16th, 2013 Tim Valentine departed from ...
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