The Jetstar A320 and Qatar 777 on the taxiway at Sydney Aiport Over the course of just a few weeks recently, two serious safety events occurred on the ground at Sydney Airport. In one, a Jetstar Airbus A320 and a Qatar Airways Boeing 777 came into close proximity on a taxiway. In another, a Qantas aircraft was reportedly cleared to cross an active runway while another Qantas aircraft was still completing its landing roll. Fortunately, neither event resulted in a collision. With the exception...

Ai generated image depicting the Space Shuttle and a hidden iceberg On the morning of 28 January 1986, millions of people around the world sat in front of their televisions waiting to watch history unfold. The Space Shuttle Challenger stood on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, ready to begin what was expected to be another routine mission. Schools across the United States had wheeled televisions into classrooms because one of the seven crew members was Christa McAuliffe, a schoolteacher...

The side of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 showing the missing door On 5 January 2024, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 departed Portland, Oregon, on what should have been an entirely routine flight to California. The Boeing 737 MAX 9 had climbed to around 16,000 feet when passengers heard a loud bang followed by an explosive rush of air as a section of the fuselage tore away from the aircraft. As you'd expect, oxygen masks deployed and loose objects were pulled from the cabin. The flight crew...