Lessons from MH17
UPDATED: 25 July 2014 at 16:41 GMT The loss of flight MH17 is not about Malaysia Airlines. It’s a particularly cruel irony that this carrier has lost a second Boeing 777 with everybody on board –...
View ArticleHoliday flight guide to hijacks, intercepts and bomb threats
Qatar Airways flight QR23 from Doha to Manchester, UK was just an ordinary flight until it was quite close to its destination. At that point the window passengers in the Airbus A330 noticed that the...
View ArticleMH17 – the unveiling begins
Flight MH17 was brought down by an external explosion which precipitated the structural break-up of the Boeing 777-200, according to the preliminary report of the accident investigator. The fuselage,...
View ArticleThe 2014 myth
2014 wasn’t a bad year for airline safety, even if it felt like one. In fact the reverse is true: it was the safest year in the history of airline safety – if only marginally. The fatal accident rate...
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