In a recent one-year period, go-arounds resulted in 127 accidents. Almost all of these involved a combination of an unstabilized approach, poor aim point and touchdown control, a delayed decision to ...
A damaged contact in the No 1 flap retract relay of a Challenger 604 meant that it failed to arrest an uncommanded flap movement. © UK AAIB ...
On 30 August, ZK-NBS, the first Boeing B747-400 aircraft acquired by Air New Zealand, had a failure in the right hand, trailing edge, inboard fore-flap. The failure was not immediately noticed by the ...
UK investigators have disagreed with Bombardier over the cause of a Challenger 604’s uncommanded – and unarrested – full flap extension at high speed, during a climb out of Farnborough. Bombardier had ...