The pilot’s failure to check the fuel selector position before takeoff and his improper fuel management, which resulted in fuel starvation and a total loss of engine power. Also causal was the pilot’s loss of airplane control which resulted in an aerodynamic stall. ...
Icing is one of the primary meteorological factors the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) considers when investigating a weather-related aviation accident. Since the late 1960s, the Safety Board has maintained a database that includes aviation accidents in which icing is noted as a cause ...
"The manufacturing/human performance group has done a complete records review from the time the event airplane left the Boeing factory to the time of the accident and found no evidence that the left MED (mid-exit door) plug was opened after leaving Boeing’s facility,...
Excluding NTSB Final Aircraft Accident Reports and FAA Airworthiness Directives at Trialabout what did or did not occur, orabout the likelihood of a particular sce-nario before a crash, should be recog-nized as a tactic to end-run the inad-missi...