Machiko Taniguchi, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, spoke directly to young JAL employees involved in flight safety in her first such opportunity since the tragedy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/widow-40-years-jal-flight-safety/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #aviation #mountosutaka #gunma #airaccidents #flightjal123
A Jeju Air plane that crashed in December after a bird strike could have kept flying on one damaged engine that was still working, according to South Korean investigators. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/asia-pacific/jeju-air-jet-engine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #jejuair #airaccidents #southkorea #boeing
A Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 170 in the country's deadliest aviation accident in decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/asia-pacific/bangladesh-jet-crash-school/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #bangladesh #airaccidents
Last month's deadly Air India crash and a recently released Australian report on the midair breakup of a helicopter in 2023 have renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over use of cockpit video cameras. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/society/air-india-cockpit-video-recorders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #airindia #airlines #aviation #airaccidents #india
India ordered its airlines to examine fuel switches on several Boeing models, while South Korea said it would order a similar measure, as scrutiny intensifies of fuel switch locks after a deadly Air India crash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/15/airlines-boeing-fuel-switches-air-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #boeing #airlines #aviation #airindia #airaccidents #india #southkorea
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have privately issued notifications that the fuel switch locks on Boeing planes are safe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/world/air-india-probe-us-faa-boeing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #airindia #us #faa #boeing #aviation #airlines #airaccidents
The Air India jetliner that crashed on June 12 was doomed almost immediately upon taking off, after both engines lost fuel supply and the pilots ran out of time to regain control and avert catastrophe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/13/world/air-india-crash-cockpit-fuel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #india #airindia #airaccidents #boeing
A new report depicted confusion in the cockpit before an Air India jetliner crashed, killing 260 last month, after the plane's engine fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped, starving the engines of fuel. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/asia-pacific/air-india-crash-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #airaccidents #airindia #india
A month after the worst aviation accident in India in decades, authorities are poised to release a preliminary report into the catastrophe, offering the first official clues to what caused the aircraft to crash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/11/asia-pacific/air-india-crash-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #airindia #aviation #airaccidents #boeing #india
A preliminary report into the deadly crash of an Air India jetliner in June is expected to be released by Friday, with the probe said to have narrowed its focus to the movement of the plane's fuel control switches. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/09/companies/air-india-jet-fuel-crash-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airindia #airlines #airaccidents #boeing
Investigators and Air India are studying possible dual engine failure as a scenario that prevented a Boeing 787 jet from staying airborne. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/asia-pacific/air-india-simulation-technical-flaw/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #airindia #india #aviation #airlines #airaccidents