In the Airline business it’s referred to as going west, the following has been disseminated by FEDEX.
Fallen Pilots
As all of you know, one of the fallen pilots was based on San Antonio. First Officer Tony Pino is a retired Air Force officer and has been flying with FedEx for a little over 3 years. [...]

The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) has confirmed that ice was not the cause of the Colgan Air Q-400 accident in Buffalo. It appears the accident followed the timeline published in a previous article on this site. In summary the aircraft slowed to a dangerous speed activating the stick pusher. The Captain miss-diagnosed [...]

Another special thank you to my readers in the United Kingdom as my book continues to rise on the Amazon UK best seller lists for books on the War in the Pacific and Burma Theater. I hope that 7A can reach the same success in the USA.

An Emirates’ A-340 ran off the end of the runway and struck its tail attempting to take off in Melbourne Australia. It dumped fuel and then returned landing long and hard. A center of gravity or over weight situation seems to be the most likely scenario due to obvious difficulty in taking off [...]

Thank you to my United Kingdom readers! 7 Alpha has hit (as of this writing) number 13 on the Burma Theater list and number 17 on the War in the Pacific best selling list. Both categories have 100 books on each list. Again; to my readers thank you very much. I [...]

Pilots cannot and will not be replaced by technology. For those of you who are impressed by technology and point to the unmanned aerial vehicles circling over Pakistan, sorry, on the other end of a very long data link sits a very unhappy fighter pilot. Just because no pilot sits in it, doesn’t [...]

Boeing Aircraft Corporation issued a cautionary memo after the failure of one of the five altimeters (one of two radio altimeters) on board the Turkish Air 737-800 failed. As reported in an earlier article the known failure caused the automated systems to malfunction.

Four Senior USMC Officers have been relieved of command and nine more have received punitive letters of reprimand. This is tantamount to an admission of major judgmental errors. The actual technical term is, relieved for cause. In the Naval Service (including the Marine Corps) when there is a major lapse of [...]

Apparently, for the second time in a matter of weeks, a crew let an autopilot stall an aircraft causing a fatal accident. In my last article I stated that the aircraft stalled and that this week we would learn how/why it stalled. I was shocked to realize it was an autopilot induced stall, [...]