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NTSB provides factual update on Boeing 787 engine failure in South Carolina
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board continues its investigation of the July 28, 2012 contained engine failure that occurred on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner (for Air India) during a pre-delivery taxi test in Charleston, South Carolina. A contained engine failure… Continue reading
Russian spacecraft turned space junk to crash soon
A Russian spacecraft designed to burnish the nation’s faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars’ moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of… Continue reading
Soyuz launch failed
Today a Soyuz-2 vehicle failed to put a communications satellite into orbit after lifting away from the country’s Plesetsk spaceport.
Debris is said to have re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere near the western Siberian town of Tobolsk.
In August, a Soyuz… Continue reading
Boeing 787 lands safely after landing gear trouble
Boeing’s new 787 wide-body plane, which just started carrying paying passengers, ran into its first technical glitch Sunday when the landing gear failed to deploy.
The pilots of Japan’s All Nippon Airways used “an alternate procedure that worked,” according to… Continue reading
Plane lands on its belly in Poland
Boeing 767′s landing gear fails to open as it reaches Warsaw airport carrying 231 people from Newark in the US
A Boeing airliner carrying 231 people from the US landed on its belly in Warsaw on Tuesday after its landing… Continue reading