Inside a U.S. Air Force special-mission fatal accident.
January 2021
The fatal crash of a U.S. Air Force special-mission Bombardier Global Express on Jan. 27, 2020, was caused by the flight crew’s error in determining which Rolls-Royce BR710 engine had catastrophically failed and subsequently shutting down the working, right-hand-side powerplant, according to a recently released USAF Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AIB) report. Contributing factors were the crew’s failure to airstart the right-hand-side engine and their decision to “recover the aircraft to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.”
Designated as E-11A by the USAF, the aircraft suffered an in-flight failure of the left engine one hour and 45 minutes after takeoff. A fan blade broke free from the left engine, causing the left engine to shut down. “Approximately 24 seconds after the initial incident, the crew shut down the right, and only operable, engine, resulting in a dual-engine-out emergency,” the US
Engine Failure, Aircrew Error Led to Fatal E-11A Crash in Afghanistan, Air Force Says
An E-11A outfitted with a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node sits on the runway at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, Nov. 16, 2018. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Kaylee Dubois)
21 Jan 2021
As an Air Force E-11A battlefield communications aircraft conducted missions over Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 27, 2020, a fan blade broke inside the left engine. Efforts to address the problem led to a series of missteps that caused the aircraft to crash, killing the two pilots, according to a new Accident Investigation Board report.
The report, released Thursday by Air Combat Command, concluded that the broken blade caused the left engine to shut down automatically. But the pilots improperly assessed that the right engine had failed or been damaged and initiated right engine shutdown procedures, it adds.
Loud bang heard across Kent caused by sonic boom from RAF typhoon jet which flew over county and caught on Ring doorbell
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Updated: 16:38, 12 January 2021
This is the moment a military jet caused a huge bang which shook homes across Kent.
The loud explosion was caused by a sonic boom from an RAF Typhoon which flew over the county today - and the moment was caught on a video door bell.
Thousands of people took to social media to ask others what the noise was.
People reported hearing it in Borstal, Rochester, Gillingham, Gravesend, Greenhithe and Meopham and even Swale.
The aircraft is thought to have been scrambled to escort a Bombardier Global Express business jet into Stansted.
How Carlos Ghosn escaped Japan on New Year s eve by Autocar UK 31 Dec 2020
Global tycoons are rarely strangers to risk, but no chief executive has made a bet as epic as the one Carlos Ghosn made last December (2019). The former boss of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance did something that he knew would mean he would either live the rest of his life as a free man or die in prison. Despite being under house arrest on financial misconduct charges involving nearly GBP 80 million (nearly Rs 800 crore), he fled Japan as a stowaway on a midnight private jet. “It was a huge risk,” he says with surprising dispassion.