What is In-flight Pilot Incapacitation and Why it’s Rising?

Should there be a concern about the rising trend of Pilot Incapacitation? The Emergency On 14 August 2012, a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787-9, Flight No LA-505 was flying from Miami, FL (USA) to Santiago de Chile (Chile). While en route at FL370 and about 120nm north of Panama City (Panama) after spending almost three hours

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Airbus A310 in a Zero-G Flight

About the Zero-G Flight An Airbus A310 is in use by Novespace, a subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES). The organization was established in 1986 for gravitational studies. Earlier, it used to be the Airbus A300. But, now Airbus A310 is in use for zero gravity or zero-g flights. German and French research agencies

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Crash of Singapore Airlines Flight SQ006

Brief Description of the Occurrence On the night of 31 October 2000, a Boeing 747-400 of Singapore Airlines Flight SQ006 was scheduled from Singapore Changi Airport to Los Angeles International Airport via Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport). The flight was uneventful from Singapore to Taiwan. However, the weather in Taipei was windy and rainy. The met department had

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Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 – Into The Terrain

Brief Description of the Occurrence Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 (Airbus A330-200) was a scheduled international flight on 12 May 2010 from Johannesburg, South Africa, to Tripoli, Libya. While making a nonprecision approach on Runway 09L of the Tripoli Airport, the aircrew initiated a ‘Go Around’ after failing to get a visual reference. The aircraft later crashed outside

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Boeing Capital Corporation

Under the leadership of President Tim Myers, Boeing operates one of its successful subsidiaries, known as Boeing Capital Corporation. Boeing Capital Corporation aims to provide the most feasible financing solutions to its customers. The primary focus of this division revolves around facilitating other business domains of Boeing. It fulfills this mission by ensuring that its

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Shaheen Air A330

Rise and Demise of Shaheen Air

Shaheen Air, a name that a long associated history stretched over 20 years of aviation business in Pakistan Aviation. The Shaheen Foundation founded shaheen Air. A trust organization created for the welfare of Pakistan Airforce retired officers and their family members. Shaheen Airline remained under the foundation till the late 90s. Later the airline was

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Boeing’s Asset – Boeing Global Services

Boeing Global Services designs and offers services and solutions to both commercial and defense and space customers. These services are completely cost-competitive and reliable from each angle which increases their dependability. Moreover, BGS provides solutions to its customers without considering the origin of the equipment in use. This all-rounded division of Boeing runs with the

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Boeing Defense, Space & Security Division

One of the three business units of Boeing is its dynamic division of Boeing Defense, Space, and Security, known as BDS. This unit of Boeing is one of the world’s hugest defense contractors, which is further segregated into six key departments. These diversified markets are classified as Commercial Derivative Aircraft, Military Rotorcraft, Human Space Exploration,

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes – the Stalwart Division of Boeing

Boeing Commercial Airplanes is the foremost division of Boeing that aims to act as the leading supplier of commercial aircraft. Boeing strives to achieve its aim via providing worthier designs, efficient models, and extreme value to its customers. All of these parameters collectively deliver a sufficiently amazing flying experience to the end-users of Boeing. That’s

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Boeing and its Role as Enabler of Modern Aviation

The American aerospace mighty, i.e., Boeing, started providing its services from scratch by taking inspiration from the Wright Flyers. It enjoys a standardized status due to continuous struggle in the field of creativity and innovation for more than a century in the field of Aviation This consistent hard work and adaptive nature of Boeing have

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