In comments that could fuel Latin American criticism of the USA's safety assessment programme, Renato Costa Pereira, ICAO secretary general, claims the FAA's recent downgrade of Argentina to category II was due only to a "technical" issue involving budgets, and that Argentina meets ICAO safety standards. Latin critics have long accused the FAA of enforcing different standards than the ICAO ones it purports to apply.
Source: Airline Business
Lithuanian investigators have commenced analysis of flight-recorder information following the Swiftair Boeing 737 freighter crash outside Vilnius on 25 November. German authorities extracted the data from the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders, according to the Lithuanian prosecutor general’s office. The office is leading a pre-trial investigation – conducted by the criminal ...
Failure to remove a pitot probe cover and a cascade of resulting pilot missteps caused a 2023 inflight upset near Hartford that involved a Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet and killed one passenger.
French investigators believe a Cessna 208 pilot, under psychological pressure, deliberately flew the aircraft into a mountain ridge while returning to Gap-Tallard airport after a parachute drop. The pilot, the only occupant, did not survive the October 2023 collision with the ridge, which rises to some 1,400m in the French ...
