Er… stockholm, 751, we`re going to hit the ground

It was supposed to be a routine morning flight from Stockholm to Copenhagen. The captain and his first officer was flying their first leg this morning on a state-of-the-art aircraft delivered April 10th, 1991.
On the morning on the December 27th (1991), SK751 was cleared for takeoff on runway 08 at Stockholm Arlanda airport. Right after [...]

AF447 – six months after

This is still a mysterious crash – and causes are still being debated on the Internet and on aviation forums on what happened that night when the Airbus 330 hit that bad weather.
And today it is six month since the first message went out about the airplane that went missing somewhere over the Atlantic, 06.01.2009.
And [...]

Too high, too wide and not at all handsome

Toncontin international airport is situated in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The airport is operated by the military and the largest aircrafts which frequents it is Boeing 757`s. Toncontin is famous for its “dangerous” approach, where planes on arrival have to fly in from a 45 degree angle and correct the plane to the runway heading just before touchdown. [...]

How long?

How long does it take to fall from 35 000 feet for an airliner? Well, it all depends on how that airliner falls down. If it goes nose down immidiately, it could take around 50-60 seconds. From what investigators and Airbus has learned from flight 447 the plane sent out messages for four minutes before [...]

Update on flight 447

They have yet to find the wreckage, and I guess today it is not doubt that the plane has gone down pretty rapid in the atlantic ocean. Second day after the tragic incident of flight 447 from Air France.
Due to the first lightning strike in the Airbus A330 the one that likely caused the electrical [...]

Air France jet vanished at sea

Today we learned that Air France lost contact with an Airbus A330-200 on a non-stop fllight between Rio De Janeiro (SBGL) to Paris (LFPG). I am sure you are on it as well.
So far they have not found the plane or the wreckage, but some are hoping for a miracle landing in the ocean with [...]

Kalitta bites the dust… again!

It is sad to watch the latest news about a Kalitta Air 747 that went down right after take-off in Bogota. Reports say that all crew survived the horrific accident, but two people on the ground died. It is said that the 747 crashed down on a farm near the airport after having reported an [...]

Dane Cook and the day

Dane Cook is a crazy m***** f*****, I say and smile. Today we trained on instrument approaches on the 737 on Flight Simulator 2004. And I must correct something about my post on the Kalitta 747 incident.

747 down at Brussels

A 747-200 cargo from Kalitta Air crashed at the end of a runway and split in two while trying to take off Sunday at Brussels airport. Four of the five crew members on board the Boeing 747 were slightly injured and were hospitalized according to CNN.