AT&T and Verizon, two of the largest cell phone providers in the country, have delayed implementing some 5G wireless towers due to potential interference with certain airplane instruments. Although they were cleared by regulators to begin full 5G implementation starting on January 19, they voluntarily delayed the process around airports to prevent potential issues. It [...]
According to a preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), one person has died and another was injured in a helicopter crash in Sevier County on December 29. The crash occurred in the middle of the afternoon, at around 2:21 PM, during a flight from Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Airport in Sevierville, TN. The current cause [...]
The pilot and two passengers were killed in a Cessna plane crash a little after 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 21, 2021, near the Chadron Municipal Airport in Northwest Nebraska. The crash involved a Cessna 310 aircraft that had just taken off from Runway 30 at the airport. All three persons on board the aircraft [...]
It’s not a great time for either airlines or air plane manufacturers in the shadow of Covid, but this week, things got demonstrably worse for embattled U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing when one of its 777 planes was forced to make an emergency landing in Denver Airport, Colorado after flight 328 from Denver to Honolulu was [...]
When a commercial airplane crashes, it makes instant headline news. The cause of the crash is investigated carefully and each new discovery eagerly reported by the media. However, the reality is that commercial airline crashes are statistically rare. Traveling by plane, as long as it is by a recognized air carrier, is far safer than [...]
Thousands of travelers fly on Boeing jets everyday throughout the country. Most believe that Boeing jets are safe and well maintained by airlines despite the recent prolonged design fault issue with Boeing’s Max 8s. However, there are times when accidents do happen and people die or are seriously injured. If it is found that the [...]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finally cleared Boeing’s 737 Max 8 aircraft to fly again after an order to ground all planes in March 2019. Boeing’s reputation has been tarnished by the two avoidable crashes that took place in Indonesia and Ethiopia and the revelation that Boeing’s corporate culture allowed the faulty planes to [...]
It has been confirmed that the three people in the Piper PA-28 airplane that crashed in a field near Warren County Memorial Airport in Minniville Tennessee, north east of Nashville, were all Air National Guard members. Little is known at this stage about the cause of the crash, but observers seem to think the light [...]
A Eurocopter EC-130 helicopter with four persons on board crashed into the Tennessee River on Monday evening at around 7.40 p.m. Three people were rescued by a nearby pontoon boat as they were attempting to swim to shore, but the fourth person died in the crash. His body was retrieved by police divers. The accident [...]
Occasionally, large commercial airplanes do crash. It makes big, worldwide headlines and there are reviews and investigations that try and figure out the answers for how and why they happen. In some cases, e.g. the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which probably crashed somewhere in the Indian Ocean, there are still no clear answers to those [...]
