... mechanical flaw in a life-critical system. Although we have dealt with individual air accidents in this blog from time to time, before last Saturday I had never come across a book that takes a thoughtful, ... the rate of serious accidents has fallen off in the last decade or two, largely because jet aviation is now a mature technology. Many of the major ways aircraft and air transportation systems ...

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... incident. According to the BBC a report is being conducted by the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (or AAIB) in to the accident but it has yet to be finalised. However, in the interim ... final report of the AAIB. If they, in their independent capacity, feel that the manufacturers of the aircraft have fallen below the standards of safety required of them then Boeing may be very vulnerable ...

... . Investigators blamed distorted data in the flight control computers caused by moisture in the system. This resulted in the aircraft making a sudden nose-up move which made the B-2 stall and crash. This ... in today’s dollars. $500 million was spent on the investigation, making it the costliest aircraft accident investigation in history. The search and recovery of debris cost $300 million. In ...

... released interim updates on the investigations of two separate accidents involving aircraft operated by Qantas. QF 30 depressurization ... the depressurization of a Qantas Boeing 747-400 aircraft, registration VH-OJK, on July 25, ... VH-QPA, on October 7, 2008. The aircraft, operating as Qantas Flight QF 72, ... attempt to discover what caused anomalous behavior of the aircraft's No. 1 Air Data Inertial ...

... everything we use have been invented with a purpose in mind: to solve a problem. Sometimes, however, accidents are the inspiration for some neat inventions that end up being fundamental in our everyday lives. Some ... the 50’s some scientists were working with a substance called fluorochemicals used in aircraft. Some drops of this substance were spilled on one of the scientists shoes and later she ...