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Just weeks after we chronicled its delivery from Toulouse and took a behind the scenes look at Condor’s first blue A330neo, D-ANRB was damaged in Frankfurt by a cargo loader. The repairs will be significant as the load gashed the aircraft directly on the static ports.
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A Ural Airlines A320 operating from Sochi to Omsk suffered a failure of its green hydraulic system on approach to Omsk. The crew elected to divert to Novosibirsk to take advantage of the longer runway there. The aircraft, however, ran out of fuel roughly 175 kilometers west of the airport and was forced to land in a field.
NATS, the UK’s air navigation service provider, has released a preliminary report explaining why it suffered a computer outage at the end August, affecting all flights in and out of the UK. Coincidentally same-named waypoints thousands of miles apart from each other caused the NATS system to fail. We pick apart the report on this week’s AvTalk.
A Legacy 600 reportedly carrying Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed northwest of Moscow en route to St Petersburg earlier this week. We break down how we tracked the flight, the additional non-position data we received from the aircraft, and what the data tells us so far.
A Legacy 600 reportedly carrying Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin crashed northwest of Moscow en route to St Petersburg earlier this week. We break down how we tracked the flight, the additional non-position data we received from the aircraft, and what the data tells us so far.
An Allegiant Air A320 was turned onto an intersecting path with a Gulfstream G-IV off the coast of Florida on Sunday. Both flights were at 23,000 feet before a TCAS resolution alerted the pilots to adjust course.
The FAA is investigating how an off-wing escape slide from a United 767 deployed and detached from the aircraft as it was on final approach to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Fortunately no one on the ground was injured when the slide fell onto a home just east of the airport.
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