AIN's Tales from the Flight Deck

Tales from the Flight Deck Podcast: Qantas QF30 and the Mysterious Explosion

Captain John Bartels and crew were flying in a Boeing 747 in perfect conditions when a sudden explosion caught their attention, made the wings rock, and destroyed some es

Tales from the Flight Deck, Episode 29: Landing Fast with Stuck Throttles in an Airbus A330

An Airbus A330 crew experienced something they'd never trained for: too much power to land and no way to pull the throttles back to reduce power. Cathay Pacific Flight 78

Week ending May 8, 2020: Bizav Flights Rising, Bombardier Q1, NBAA and Gulfstream Layoffs, JetSuite Bankrupt, Daher Intros 2020 TBM 940

In this week's episode, AIN London-based editor Charles Alcock gives an overview of the latest WingX data, which indicates that business aviation flight activity is awake

The Atlas Air Flight 3591 accident; what went so wrong?

A routine air cargo run from Miami to Houston meets a tragic end, and information released by investigators paints the picture of a confused flight crew fighting desperat

Re-Post Flight-By-Wire Failure (Full Episode)

On Oct. 7, 2008, Qantas Flight 72 was flying over the Indian Ocean from Singapore to Perth, Australia. Kevin Sullivan, pilot-in-command of the Airbus A330, was flying on 

When Pilots Break the Rules

It's an all-too human tendency, borne from our natural desire to find quicker solutions not only on the flight deck - but also in our daily lives. It's also something all

Airmanship Saves Southwest Flight

A Southwest Airlines flight crew finds themselves in a situation they'd never experienced before when their Boeing 737 suffers an uncontained engine failure on a flight f

Avoiding King Air Rollover Tragedies

Over the past five years, one of the world's most popular, dependable aircraft has been involved in a series of accidents—all of them fatal, all of them on takeoff. In ea

Grappling with Grief

Pilots are keenly aware about physical issues that might ground them from flying, including vision problems, cancer, and heart trouble. But mental and emotional issues ca

DEF Contamination

Mistaking diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) additive for fuel system icing inhibitor PRIST on the flight line is a growing problem on ramps all over the world. This can be disas

Otto's Pilots Part 2

Unable to discern the fate of the small American delegation trying to win the freedom of an injured American college student from North Korea, a Phoenix Air flight crew d

Otto's Pilots Part 1

A call for help from Washington, DC to Phoenix Air, based at a tiny airport in Cartersville, Georgia: Can you fly a medivac mission right away? The destination: North Kor

Connecting Planes in Trouble with Ships at Sea

A World War II era bomber pressed into transoceanic service as a freighter is lost. It's night. The water below is frigid. Whether the crew survives depends on how close

Episode 19: Flight Deck Automation after Indonesia and Ethiopia

After the Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, the question is whether cockpit automation is working for pilots or pilots are working for the automation. W

Flight Deck Extra - Do You See What I See

Listen as these aviation professionals discuss how critical it is to not just understand weather but to understand how to know the limits of weather depiction.  As you wi

Into the Storm

What makes an otherwise safe pilot believe he or she can pick through the cells of a thunderstorm? In this episode, Wilson Khors and his copilot become so transfixed on m

Emergency Response

When an aircraft emergency situation strikes, as a pilot, how prepared will you be to deal with it? For both an experienced aviator with thousands of hours of stick time

When it all Goes Sideways

Having reached their 43,000-foot cruise altitude, the crew of a corporate Citation XLS had their world almost literally turned upside down. Like a rogue wave far out at s

Familiar Departure, Busted Altitude

After an unanticipated en route stop-over throws a curve to an experienced crew, they fall victim to an error of omission that could have been disastrous. Leaving Denver

One Turn of the Wrench Exposes SMS Flaws

While safety management systems (SMS) are powerful tools that are now seeing widespread adoption throughout the aviation industry, if not fully utilized and embraced from