L'équipage d'un Embraer 120 de la compagnie américaine Sky West opérant le vol 6552 entre Palm Springs et Los Angeles avec 14 passagers à bord s'est ...

Obsessif Mag vous invite dans le cockpit de d’un Boeing 747 afin de vivre un atterrissage d’un point de vue inédit et de découvrir toutes les étapes qui précèdent et suivent cette périlleuse manoeuvre.

Obsessif Mag vous invite dans le cockpit de d’un Boeing 747 afin de vivre un atterrissage d’un point de vue inédit et de découvrir toutes les étapes qui précèdent et suivent cette périlleuse manoeuvre.

Quelle magie ces visioconférences en direct du large au niveau des 40èmes! Cet après-midi, Thomas nous a transporté à bord de son Maxi Trimaran Sodeb’O. Il nous a fait surfer une vague à 33 nœuds, marcher en équilibre sur le trampoline au-dessus de la mer et papoter avec lui dans le cockpit pendant qu’il pilotait son bolide.

Government-issued holsters used by thousands of armed airline pilots increase the chance that guns will be accidentally discharged in the cockpit, according to federal investigators.

"When is a helicopter like a Patsy Cline song? When it falls to pieces." That's the darkly comedic subhed in a new Air Space Magazine about ground resonance, a condition when a sitting helicopter's rotors become imbalanced while spinning. If the frequency of the now-vibrating rotor is close to the body of the chopper's normal vibration frequency, the oscillations increase. In seconds, the whole helicopter can just fall apart. (Ground resonance tore the helicopter above apart in just four seconds.) From Air Space: “I was standing right next to it,” says Frank Robinson, founder of the world’s leading helicopter company, describing a close call he had during a 1961 test of a gyroplane. “I had to grab hold of it and hang on and ride the damn thing down. You don’t want to be standing out there when it starts to jump around — it can jump on you. And there’s not a good way to get out of it. Just cut everything, hang on and hope..." The destruction is wrought by the considerable energy stored in the rotor blades. The shaking rapidly grows in violence, exceeding the strength of the mast, transmission mounts, and landing gear. The cyclic control in the cockpit flails about so violently that the pilot cannot hold it, the rotor blades strike the tail boom or the cockpit, parts begin falling off, and moments later the helicopter may be a heap of scrap. How Things Work: Ground Resonance...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=dbd8786a1d569448f2adeaca1c716ceaamp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=dbd8786a1d569448f2adeaca1c716ceaamp;p=1" border="0" //a

An Air New Zealand Airbus A320 a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1objectid=10546224"crashed in the Meditarreanean last week/a while on an acceptance testing flight at the end of a lease. The tragedy occurred on the 29th anniversary of the airline's worst disaster, a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4398336a6479.html"the crash of sightseeing flight TE901 in the Antarctic/a. Beginning in 1977, the a href="http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/history/anzbrochure.html"popular one-day flights/a took passengers on low level flights over the Ross Dependency, with experienced guides providing commentary. a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901"TE 901/a flew on beautiful, clear day, and yet the DC-10 collided with the side of a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=222036t=kom=1"Mt Erebus/a, killing all 257 on board. The original accident report cited pilot error, but that was only the beginning. br / With no mechanical reason for the crash, and the a href="http://www.airdisaster.com/cvr/anz901tr.shtml"cockpit voice recorder showing no emergency in the cockpit/a, The report blamed pilot a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/mt-erebus-crash/news/article.cfm?c_id=1500932objectid=6500438"Jim Collins/a for descending below a minimum safe altitude of 16,000ft. A subsequent Royal Commission of Inquiry was launched, and after 75 days of evidence, Justice Peter Mahon concluded that a href="http://www.investigatemagazine.com/archives/2006/03/investigate_nov_4.html"quot;I am forced reluctantly to say that I had to listen to an orchestrated litany of lies.quot;/a Exonerating the pilots, Justice Mahon found a href="http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/erebus/docs/AntarcticReport.pdf"the computer navigation track of TE901 had been altered just before the flight/a, shifting the flightpath from the safe, flat expanse of McMurdo Sound to a collision course with Mt Erebus, without the pilots being told of the change. The pilots had fallen victim to a phenomenon known as a href="http://www.tc.gc.ca/CivilAviation/SystemSafety/Newsletters/tp185/4-02/427.htm"sector whiteout/a rendering the mountain indistinguishable from the cloud cover. Air New Zealand appealed the decision, and political establishment turned on Mahon, resulting in his eventual resignation. He was posthumously awarded for a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4778562a11.html" changing the way air accidents are investigated worldwide/a.br / br / His findings a href="http://www.pprune.org/d-g-reporting-points/152934-erebus-25-years-6.html"remain controversial/a decades later, with a href="http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1121530.php"claims that Air New Zealand employees have attempted to sanitise the Wikipedia entry on the crash/a, the a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/mt-erebus-crash/news/article.cfm?c_id=1500932objectid=9002310"original cockpit voice recorder tape missing/a (leaving inconsistent transcripts), and the Prime Minister at the time a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/mt-erebus-crash/news/article.cfm?c_id=1500932objectid=3612368"working to counter Mahon's findings/a before they were ever released. The wreckage a href="http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/chch/images/pc-erebus-crashsiteside.jpg"remains on the ice/a. During warm seasons, it can still be seen from the air.