Helicopter Safety Features Avoided By FAA Loopholes – Kobe Bryant Tragedy January 26, 2020 | Kendall Creighton Re-post following the Kobe Bryant tragedy. In 2018 we called on the FAA to step up and regulate helicopters after delaying for two years to study the issue. Safety features are avoided by loopholes in regulations, including structural elements, impact-resistant seating, and systems to prevent fuel from igniting on impact. Bryant’s helicopter was a Sikorsky… Read More
FAA “Lowered The Bar” In Approving SWA Hawaii Flights January 26, 2020 | Kendall Creighton After months of bad 737 MAX revelations, now this. The U.S. government’s Office of the Special Counsel announced last week they are investigating the Federal Aviation Administration on how it handled the approval process to let Southwest Airlines fly between California and Hawaii, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Special Counsel’s office that found… Read More
FAA Hid Boeing’s Role in 2009 Turkish Airlines Crash January 22, 2020 | Kendall Creighton An expert study that was never made public found that Boeing bore significant responsibility for a deadly 737 crash in 2009. The New York Times reviewed evidence that revealed strong parallels with recent 737 Max crashes. In the 2009 crash and in more recent crashes that killed 346 people, an automated command was triggered by… Read More
Boeing Stock Price Finally Catches Up With Reality January 21, 2020 | Andrew Appelbaum MEDIA ALERT Washington, DC- 1/21/2020 4:00 pm Boeing stock will continue to be under great pressure due to serious safety problems with the 737 MAX, the 777X, the 787, and even older 737 jetliners, predicts Paul Hudson, President of the largest airliner passenger organization and long time member of the FAA Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee… Read More
Fuel Dumping B777 – Unsolved Mystery January 17, 2020 | Kendall Creighton The mystery of the Fuel Dumping B777 continues. A week later, we’re are still wondering why the pilots of a Boeing 777 didn’t notify air-traffic control before dumping fuel over densely populated Los Angeles. If the pilots thought it was an emergency, then undoubtedly the crew will claim it was in the interest of safety.… Read More
‘Financialization’ of Boeing January 15, 2020 | Kendall Creighton History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme. Curtiss-Wright was a huge airframe, engine and propeller manufacturer. that made a PILE of money from WW II. After the war, they had about a hundred million dollars in cash in the bank that they didn’t know what to do with. The engineering management of the company was… Read More
“This airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys” – said Boeing employees January 11, 2020 | Kendall Creighton Embarrassing communications were sent to investigators last week, which included a comment that “this airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys.” Internal emails and texts show Boeing employees were well aware of problems with the 737 MAX before the two deadly crashes, and that the company emphasized speed over safety… Read More
Ukraine International Airlines Crashes Minutes After Takeoff in Tehran January 9, 2020 | Kendall Creighton While five security sources – three Americans, one European and one Canadian – initial assessment is that UIA flight PS752 suffered a technical malfunction and had not been brought down by a missile, it hasn’t stopped many from speculating on what else could have caused the older model Boeing 737-800 NG to fall from… Read More
Another Boeing Blunder – 777x January 4, 2020 | Kendall Creighton . We are worried the Boeing 777X could prove just as problematic as the MAX – because the MAX issues are now publicly well-known, whereas the 777x are hidden. There’s not much info about the 777x and what’s online is being distorted by Boeing in yet another coverup. The 777x could be worse than the… Read More