Thanks largely to stringent regulations, accidents are rare. You could help make them even rarer.
February 2021
If you charter aircraft, you may be wondering about the safety of your flights. The good news is that charter represents one of the safest forms of non-airline flying. That’s because charter operators employ professional and experienced crews, and because the Federal Aviation Administration has always overseen passenger-paying flights more strictly than private operations.
In the U.S., the FAA’s federal aviation regulations (FARs) mandate safety rules for all aircraft. Part 91 is the least demanding of the FARs, providing great flexibility in operational requirements, training, and maintenance. Companies that fly aircraft in which the passengers own fractional portions are regulated under Part 91K, a subsection of Part 91 but with tighter requirements. On-demand air charter (aka air taxi) operators fall under the stricter Part 135, the regulation that also applies to
When Flight MH370 disappeared, conspiracy theories quickly emerged
Credit: AP Images
Nobody disputes the initial facts – not even Florence de Changy, a French journalist whose new book on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to revive the greatest mystery in aviation history.
At 00:42 on 8 March 2014, MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport bound for Beijing. On board the Boeing 777 were two pilots, 10 flight attendants and 227 passengers of 14 different nationalities. They included Chinese labourers and package- holiday tourists going home, a group of calligraphers, a stuntman who was working on a new Netflix series, and 20 employees of a US electronics company. Five were children.
Singapore Aviation Safety Seminars (SASS) 2021
The 6th annual Singapore Aviation Safety Seminar, jointly organized by Flight Safety Foundation and the Singapore Aviation Academy will take place virtually on 23 to 25 March 2021. This year’s event, consisting of pre-recorded and live sessions, will bring together aviation professionals from regulators, manufacturers, airlines and associations to share the latest safety challenges, issues, developments and initiatives to raise the safety standards in the Asia Pacific region. The program focuses on topics relating to Safety Leadership, Automation in the Flight Deck, Aviation Mental Health and Human Factors, Data Analytics, Safeguarding Public Health and Restarting Aviation. The Seminar will review the current situation, future approaches to manage aviation safety and facilitate cooperation so as to build consensus and formulate recommendations for the effective progress of key aviation safety activities during COVID-19 pandemic and be
Indonesian Plane Went From No Flights to 132 in Less Than a Month
The mothballing adds another possible factor in the crash of the 26-year-old Boeing 737-500, which killed 62 people on Sriwijaya Air Flight 182.
Search and rescue personnel carrying a bag containing wreckage from Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 at a port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday.Credit.Ulet Ifansasti for The New York Times
By Austin Ramzy and Dera Menra Sijabat
Published Jan. 13, 2021Updated Jan. 19, 2021
The aging plane flew during a heavy storm in a country with a long history of flight disasters. It had also been out of service for nine months.