Archive for Category: "Plane Crashes"
Lion Air’s Hard Landing & When You Can Survive a Plane Crash
On Saturday, a Lion Air 737 missed the runway and crash-landed into the water. All 108 passengers and crew survived the hard landing. This incident is the sixth accident for the airline since 2002. It is also the third crash-landing for a 737 since 2009. Heavy rains and winds are looking to be the main [...]
Flight Safety Training in Action
Part of being the Travel Detective is training six times a year in cockpit simulators as well as cabin simulators. On a recent trip to London, British Airways presented the ABC’s of aircraft safety – including emergency evacuation down the slides. Follow along as Peter and Travel Correspondent Alyssa Caverley take on the British Airways [...]
Behind the Concorde Ruling: A CBS This Morning Report
There’s no disputing that a Continental plane left debris on the runway the day the Air France Concorde crashed. But there were many other factors involved: an overweight, overfueled plane, flawed tires, shifting winds, and maintenance issues. Peter appeared on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell to report on why the French courts [...]
Concorde Crash Update: French Court Overturns Manslaughter Conviction
Today, a French appeals court overturned a manslaughter conviction against Continental Airlines, Inc., for the 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde that killed 113 people. For 12 years, Peter investigated the crash, talking to numerous credible eyewitnesses, reading the French accident report, and studying everything about the Concorde’s design, piecing together the series of [...]
U.S. Aviation Reaches Safety Record But Travel Mishaps Abound
We just hit a record for aviation safety, but the headlines are still full of airline missteps. Peter and Ask the Pilot’s Patrick Smith rehash some of the latest and the greatest travel mishaps. Patrick Smith: Something serious happened recently that went unnoticed in the press: November 12 was the 10th anniversary of the crash [...]
Fatal Air Race Crash Raises Questions of Pilot’s Bravado and Event Safety
A crash over the weekend at a Reno, Nevada, air race has left organizers and officials questioning if a pilot’s bravado is to blame and if air shows are as safe as perceived. On Friday, September 16, 74-year-old pilot Jimmy Leeward lost control of his World War II era vintage P-51 Mustang plane and crashed [...]
Passengers & Crew Safe Following Guyana Crash
All 157 passengers and six crew members are safe following a plane crash that split the fuselage in two on Caribbean Airlines Flight BW523 early in the morning on July 30. The accident occurred at 1:23a.m. at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Georgetown, Guyana on a Boeing 757 that had originated in New York’s JFK [...]
Vote For The Icarus Award: Flying High & Falling Low
Welcome to the first Peter Greenberg Icarus Awards. Every week we’ll give out our Icarus Award to honor the travel entity that best embodies the enthusiastic, but questionably intelligent, spirit of the ancient, mythical Greek traveler who fell to his death by flying too close to the sun. Check out this week’s nominees: Carry-on C4 [...]
