Dauphin Helicopter was involved in an accident while operating a night training flight on 4th November 2015 from WIS platform to a rig.
The flight was a training flight with an examiner occupying the left hand side seat and the trainee (pilot under check) was occupying the right hand side seat. Continue reading Analysis of Helicopter Accident Offshore-04 Nov 15.
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The Angle of Attack is the angle at which relative wind meets an Aerofoil. It is the angle formed by the Chord of the aerofoil and the direction of the relative wind or the vector representing the relative motion between the aircraft and the atmosphere.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi-Jeddah IndiGo flight had to return to Delhi Airport on Tuesday, 18 Feb 2020 night after taxiing for take off when two passengers created a scene inside the aircraft as two of their co-passengers were off-loaded from the flight due to losing their boarding card. Continue reading Indigo flight returns to terminal after two passengers try to open aircraft door while taxiing
Boeing Co found debris that could pose potential safety risks in the fuel tanks of several 737 MAX aircraft that are in storage and waiting to be delivered to airlines, according to an internal memo on Tuesday. Continue reading Boeing finds debris in fuel tanks of undelivered 737 MAX jetliners
NEW DELHI: Aircraft stuck on runways will not be able to hold up and delay traffic by September, with major airports set to install six Disabled Aircraft Recovery Kit (DARK) systems. Continue reading Soon, kits to get stuck planes off runway at six airports
Bengaluru-bound GoAir flight’s engine caught fire on at Ahmedabad airport Tuesday morning. The fire has been, however, doused and all passengers are safe.
In a statement on Tuesday, GoAir said that the right engine of the Ahmedabad-Bengaluru flight suffered damage, which resulted in a small fire.
The airlines added that no emergency evacuation was deemed necessary and that the passengers will be deplaned after the aircraft is towed off the runway.
TIRUPATI: A four-seater chartered aircraft on its way to Bengaluru from Bellary made an emergency landing in Anantapur district on Monday morning. Continue reading Andhra Pradesh: Bengaluru-bound chartered plane makes emergency landing in Anantapur
New Delhi: The domestic air passenger traffic in January increased by 2.2 per cent to 1.27 crore compared to the same month in 2019, according to data released by aviation regulator DGCA on Monday.
Continue reading Domestic air passenger traffic increased by 2.2% in January: DGCA
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Aircraft and engine ice protection systems are generally of two designs: either they remove ice after it has formed, or they prevent it from forming. The former type of system is referred to as a de-icing system and the latter as an anti-icing system. Continue reading Aircraft Ice Protection Systems
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday appointed senior IAS officer Rajiv Bansal as the chairman and managing director of Air India (AI). Bansal, currently additional secretary in petroleum ministry, had held additional charge of AI chief in August 2017 for about four months when the then chairman Ashwani Lohani was moved to Railway Board.
After retiring from Railway, Lohani was made AI CMD last February for a year and has completed his second term.
Rajiv Bansal, an IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, is a civil engineer from IIT Delhi. In his long career, he has served as secretary, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission; joint secretary in the department of heavy industries and and director in aviation ministry. He has earlier been on the boards of BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited), National Aviation Company of India Ltd — the short-lived name of Air India and Indian Airlines after the two were merged in 2007 — and Alliance Air, among other organisations.
