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Valuable Air Safety Lessons from a JOBY eVTOL accident
- Sandy Murdock
- 27 March 2024
Joby Aviation was completing a flight test of its JAS4-2 under Part 91on February 16, 2022, and the EXPERIMENTAL uncrewed eVTOL vehicle suffered a separation of one of its propellors which cascaded into another propellor separating multiple propulsion motor/propeller assemblies
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Justice and Jail for Boeing vs. NTSB probable cause?
- Sandy Murdock
- 26 March 2024
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced that it had initiated a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION “WHETHER THE [Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max] PANEL BLOWOUT VIOLATED TERMS OF A 2021 SETTLEMENT that let Boeing avoid prosecution for allegedly misleading regulators who certified
Scholl interview: a blueprint for innovative TC applicants
- Sandy Murdock
- 25 March 2024
Advanced civil drones (UASs), green aircraft, air taxis, other eVTOL applications and a whole host of aerospace innovations are being created by this industry. Contemporaneously, a number of traditional type and production certificates are showing some cracks in their performance.
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Does United need to do an external audit?
- Sandy Murdock
- 24 March 2024
Below are three articles which report the incidents and regulatory consequences of incidents which United recently experienced. The first explains what restrictions the FAA has imposed in response. Number two story recites the opinions of the UA CEO and three
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What REALLY is SAFETY CULTURE?
- Sandy Murdock
- 20 March 2024
FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION’S DR. SHAHIDI reviewed the safety data for Year 2023, commends the industry for a year without fatalities in international commercial aviation; HOWEVER, he warns: . “COMPLACENCY is a stealthy threat that can erode safety and quality unless
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Media proffers a Travel Editor as THE expert on regulatory surveillance of aircraft certification.
- Sandy Murdock
- 19 March 2024
This post will not follow the ordinary format. Today, it begins with an opinion expressed by the Travel Detective. In response to the recent spate of FAA and industry awful incidents, he was asked to express his opinions on the
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