Posts Tagged Airport

BOEING 767 BELLY-LANDING in Warsaw

Nov 1

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in American, B-767, Firefighting, Flight SAFETY, Land., LISTEN, PLS 3 / SLP 3, Poland | No Comments

November 1, 2011 – A commercial aircraft performed an emergency landing onto Frederic Chopin International Airport two hours ago. The LOT Polish Airlines B-767 that had taken off from Newark had then been circling over Poland’s capital for an hour as a landing gear failure had been reported. The belly-landing unfolded perfectly, and the firefighters responded immediately. No casualties have been reported among the crew members and the 230 passengers.

Tags: Airport, American, B-767, B767, Belly, Boeing, Boeing 767, Emergency landing, Firefighters, Frederic Chopin, Landing, Landing gear, LISTEN, LOT, Main landing gear, Newark, NEWS, PLS 3333, Poland, Video, Warsaw

Russian hockey team perish in plane crash

Sep 8

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in Accidents, Flight SAFETY, Kerosene, Passengers, PLS 2 / SLP 2, READ, RUSSIA, Yak-42 | No Comments

Yak-42 plane crash. The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder of the ill-fated plane are yet to be recovered.

Poor quality fuel possible cause of Yak-42 crash – aviation source

02:15 08/09/2011 Poor quality of aviation fuel could be one of possible reasons for why the Yak-42 plane crashed in Central Russia on Wednesday, killing more than 40 people.>>

Other news of the day

Tags: Accident, Accidents, Air Disaster, AIRCRAFT, Airport, Casualties, Crash, Crashes, Death toll, Flight SAFETY, Fuel, Hockey, Moscow, NEWS, Passengers, Plane crash, PLS 2222, READ, RUSSIA, Russian, Team, Volga, Yak-42, Yakovlev, Yaroslav

BOEING 787 Dreamliner maiden flight to JAPAN

Aug 2

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in American, Aviation, B-7E7 / B-787, Cockpit, Flight Engineer, Japan, LISTEN, Pilots, PLS 3 / SLP 3, USA | No Comments

It was the first time a Boeing B-787 Dreamliner had taken off for Japan. The Japanese ANA – All Nippon Airways – has ordered 40 Boeing B-787-8; and 15 B-787-9. This video was shot a month ago as the wide-body jet airliner departed from Seattle on July 3, 2011:

Tags: AIRCRAFT, Airline, Airport, American, ANA, Analyst, Aviation, B-787, B-787-8, B-787-9, B-7E7 / B-787, Boeing, Boeing-787, Cabin, Captain, Chief pilot, Dreamliner, Evaluation, Flight, Flight deck, Flight engineer, Haneda, Hiroshima, JAPAN, Japanese, LISTEN, Maiden, NEWS, Nippon, Osaka, Pilots, PLS 3333, Seattle, Software, Systems, Technical pilot, Tests, Tokyo, USA, Validation, Video

Extraordinary video at JFK airport – AirFranceA380…jostles…Bombardier CRJ700 while taxiing !

Apr 12

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in A380, American, ATC, B2, Controllers, CRJ700 / CRJ900 / CRJ1000, FCL 1.028, FCL 1.200, Hum. Fact., ICAO levels, LISTEN, Misc., Pilots, PLS 3 / SLP 3, Tail, USA, Wings | 1 Comment

This video has become a buzz since yesterday night. The Airbus A380 super-heavy jumbo jet wingtip would have clipped the tail of the CRJ700 according to some reports. The passengers were violently shaken in the cabin of the smaller plane as the Bombadier airplane was instantly pivoted around its yaw axis while… taxiing!!!

Here is the ATC voice communication when the Airbus A380 took out the CRJ700:

… and here is an – outdated – aeronautical chart to understand what happened and where on JFK International’s tarmac:

New York JFK INTL airport diagram - aeronautical chart

Special thanks to Lady E and Xavier for passing the news on

Tags: A380, Aeronautical, Aeroplane, AF007, Air France, Airbus, AIRCRAFT, Airliner, Airlines, Airplane, Airport, Amazing, American, ATC, Audio, Bombardier, Boston, Buzz, Carriers, Charles de Gaulle, Chart, Clip, Collision, Comair, Controller, CRJ700, Delta, Diagram, DL6293, Emergency, Empennage, Engine, Evacuate, Extraordinary, Fin, Flight SAFETY, French, Hit, ICAO LEVELS - Niveaux OACI, Jet, JFK, Jumbo, LISTEN, Map, New-York, NEWS, Paris, Passengers, Pilots, Plane, PLS 3333, Radiotelephony, RTF, Shaken, Super heavy, Tail, Taxiing, Taxiway, USA, Video, Voice communications, Wingtip, Yaw

HUMAN FACTORS – Situation awareness and confusion

Mar 11

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in Air traffic, AIRCREW, American, ATC, B2, CAEA et BIA, CIVILIAN, Controllers, FCL 1.028, FCL 1.200, Frost, Hum. Fact., ICAO levels, Misc., Near misses, NTSB, PLS 3 / SLP 3, SCRIPTS, USA | No Comments

Here is an example of perception confronted with reality at night, in conditions of fog and poor visibility. What happened at Theodore Francis Green Airport, in Warwick, Rhode Island, could have turned into a major disaster. Listen and watch the video:

Tags: Air Traffic Control, Airport, American, ATC, ATPL, AUDIO and SCRIPT, CIVILIAN, Confusion, CPL, FAA, FCL 1.028, FCL 1.200, Flight SAFETY, Human factor, Incursion, LISTEN, Near misses, NTSB, PLS 3333, PPL, Providence, Radiotelephony, Rhode Island, RT, RTF, Runway, SA, Situational awareness, Taxiway, Video, Voice communications, Warwick

Air Traffic Control – Interesting voice communications with scripts

Feb 6

Posted by Recce 233 Savoie in Air traffic, American, ATC, B-747, B-767, B1, Civilians, Controllers, FCL 1.028, FCL 1.200, ICAO levels, Jamaica, Jamaican, Near misses, Passengers, Pilots, PLS 3 / SLP 3, SCRIPTS, USA | No Comments

Caution: As far as this video is concerned, it would be well advised not to use some of the phrases heard on its soundtrack during an FCL 1.200/1.028 speaking examination…

Tags: 610, Air Jamaica, AIRCREW, Airport, Airprox, Alitalia, ATC, AUDIO and SCRIPT, B-767, BOS, Boston, Civilians, Controllers, Crowbar, Divert, Door, Dunk, Electrical, En route, ERJ, Eva Airways, Failure, FCO, Final approach, Fiumicino, Fuel, Gear, Glitch, Go ahead, Heavy, Italy, JFK, Leonardo da Vinci, lever, LISTEN, Logan, Map, Miami, Missed approach, Near misses, New-York, Passengers, Phrases, Pilots, PLS 3333, Radiotelephony, Roma, Rome, RT, RTF, Say again, Slam-dunk, Souls, Stuck, Traffic control, Video, Voice communications

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