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AIN's Tales from the Flight Deck
Furthering aviation safety awareness by exploring first-person experiences.
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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, a...
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. Cath...
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 flig...
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 cr...
Re-Post Flight-By-Wire Failure (Full Episode)
In this episode, Sullivan recounts how he was able to identify the issues affecting the A330's fly-by-wire flight controls and minimize damage while p...
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'...
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 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 th...
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 worl...
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 Phoen...
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 de...
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 d...
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 f...
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 d...
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 becom...
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...
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 rog...
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 disastr...
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 utiliz...
Familiarity Breeds Complacency
Pilot complacency during preflight inspection nearly led to disaster on a brisk October day in 2008. As an experienced flight crew readying for a shor...
Takeoff and Landing Assessments, Part 2
On January 19, 2011, a Citation X flying from Providence, Rhode Island, to Waukegan National Airport in Illinois slid off the runway. This was six yea...
Flight Deck Extra: Top-of-Descent Landing Assessment
Listen to a two-member flight crew make a top-of-decent assessment in this bonus episode of AIN’s Tales from the Flight Deck.
Takeoff And Landing Assessments, Part 1
On Dec. 8, 2005, Southwest Airlines 1248 was completing its trip from Baltimore when it plowed through a runway barrier and skidded onto the streets o...
Flying Under The Influence, Part 2
The second installment of AIN’s The Human Factor, Flying Under the Influence, continues the discussion about pilots who suffer from drug and alcohol a...
Flying Under The Influence, Part 1
Passengers put their lives in the hands of their flight crews when they step onto an airplane. But what if pilots violate the trust passengers bestow?...
Fly - By - Wire Failure, Part 2
While flying an Airbus A330 at FL370 over the Indian Ocean from Singapore to Perth in 2008, pilot Kevin Sullivan found himself dealing with malfunctio...
Fly - By - Wire Failure, Part 1
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...
The Perils Of Hypoxia
Pilot George Braly recalls a flight in which his portable oxygen line becomes kinked and he ultimately loses conciousness. George is awakened by ATC a...
Engine Fire Forces Water Landing, Part 2
After Dennis Murphy delivered five charter passengers to Havana, Cuba, on February 20, 2003, during the return trip one of the engines on his Cessna 4...
Engine Fire Forces Water Landing, Part 1
After dropping five charter passengers in Havana, Cuba, on February 20, 2003, one of the engines on Dennis Murphy's Cessna 402B developed a catastroph...
Fuel Emergency—Flying on Empty
How could an instrument-rating student and a flight instructor run out of fuel on a training flight? High-time flight instructor Brian Lloyd recalls h...
Flying into a Thunderstorm, Part 2
In the second episode of AIN's The Human Factor, we pick up with Tim Valentine just after flying his SR22 into the back of a thunderstorm. This is par...
Flying into a Thunderstorm, Part 1
In the inaugural episode of AIN's The Human Factor, we explore the factors that led up-to Tim Valentine flying his Cirrus SR22 into a thunderstorm. On...