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Rebecca Lougheed

Rebecca is a First Officer based in Gatwick on the Boeing 787. Before that she flew the A340, A380 and briefly the A330, and before that the Avro RJ85. She misses having 4 engines, but likes Airbus and Boeing equally. She hopes to share her love of the adventures, connections and challenges aviation brings to the world by writing articles on everything and anything aviation related.

Latest articles by Rebecca Lougheed

Aviation safety

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Threats and intercepts: what happens when a flight faces security concerns?

An American Airlines flight from New York to Delhi received a bomb threat and was diverted to Rome with a fighter jet escort. He’s…

Aviation explainer series

De-sprucing the North Atlantic: changes coming to the NAT HLA

Changes are coming to how some aircraft can travel across the Atlantic, finally removing a vestige of World War II-era logistics. The Blue Spruce…

Aviation business

Bragging rights: United puts its 1000th mainline aircraft into service

United Airlines recently put its 1,000th mainline aircraft into service, the first airline to reach that milestone. We take a look at the feat…

Aviation safety

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Drones versus airplanes

On 9 January, at the height of the Palisades fire in Los Angeles, one of the firefighting aircraft, a Canadair CL-415 ‘Super Scooper’, was…

Aviation explainer series

What does an aircraft need to land?

A pilot’s perspective — what does an aircraft to successfully land and what are the backups in place for when these systems fail? …

Aviation safety

Disruptive passengers: what’s the price?

In the USA alone last year (2023) there were 2,075 cases of disruptive passengers. That led to 512 investigations and 402 enforcement actions. That…

Aviation safety

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Pilot automation: how much auto should be in the pilot?

Pilots get very upset if you suggest all they do is sit back, drink coffee, and watch the world fly by while the autopilot…

Aviation explainer series

What’s stopping you? Runway excursions and how to prevent them

Nearly every year, we see numerous news reports of airplane runway overruns. From the major DHL 757 overrun in Costa Rica in 2022, to…

Aviation explainer series

Conflict avoidance: how airlines steer clear of danger

If you are a regular Flightradar24 aircraft tracker, then you might have noticed various regions of the world which fewer aircraft traverse. Aside from…