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When do you use an aircraft maintenance engineers’ logbook?
Jun 19 2016 | Comments (38)
The aircraft maintenance engineers’ logbook has been around for years, but in what ways do the engineers’ use their logboo...
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Air Vallee gear-up landing traced to incorrect maintenance
Apr 04 2017 | Comments (20)
Italian investigators have disclosed that incorrect maintenance was conducted on an Air Vallee Fokker 50’s nosegear the da...
Distractions
Apr 30 2017 | Comments (13098)
Submitted by Gordon Dupont With permission from D.O.M. Director of Maintenance magazine Distractions are an everyd...
Explore the Plane Graveyard Where Crash Investigators Train
May 14 2017 | Comments (0)
It Doesn’t even look like a plane. The Mitsubishi MU-2 is in about a hundred pieces, spread over the floor of a warehouse....
Stockport air disaster: The holiday flight that ended in catastrophe
Jun 11 2017 | Comments (4)
Fifty years ago a plane returning from Majorca plunged to the ground in Stockport, Greater Manchester, killing 72 people. ...
The 4 Most Common Reason Why Airplanes Crash
Nov 26 2017 | Comments (21)
Airplanes revolutionized our modern-day world, making previously-unknown intercontinental travel possible. Thanks, Wright ...
Aviation industry mechanics retiring faster than they are being replaced, report says
Mar 03 2018 | Comments (1)
A new report finds that while 30 percent of the aviation mechanics workforce is at or near retirement age, new entrants in...
Just Culture Stories: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
May 18 2018 | Comments (2)
BY DR. BILL JOHNSON The author tells three stories about voluntary reporting and just culture. Fitting for this month’s...
Accidents that changed aviation: Improving cockpit communication
May 22 2018 | Comments (2)
Aviation’s worst disaster occurred on March 27, 1977, when two 747s collided on a runway in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Five...
