Ceiling Descent Tail 
Flying Magazine
MAY 9, 2025
Several witnesses reported hearing several loud “bangs,” and then saw the aircraft’s tail boom and main rotor system separate from the fuselage. The main rotor and tail boom sections were found north of the fuselage in 30 feet of water. The wreckage was strewn about a wide area. ADS-B contact was lost at 3:14:54.5
Flying Magazine
JULY 22, 2025
The deicing boots seem to mate so smoothly with the wings and tail that the only way to tell where that happens is that they are different colors. We experimented with varying descents from an emergency descent profile—from coming down at nearly 10,000 fpm to seeing if we could cure being high and fast on an arrival procedure.
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Fear of Landing
JUNE 27, 2025
The report cites the excessive descent rate as a critical factor, as the Bombardier CRJ 900 was descending at 1,110 feet per minute on touchdown, almost double the landing gear’s design limit of 720 feet per minute. The weather was poor with a 200-foot cloud ceiling and visibility of half a mile/one kilometre.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Around this time, the USAAF was also developing its first jet fighters, but knew that all-jet aircraft at this time were short-ranged and burned fuel quicker than propeller-driven aircraft, and so the optimal design was to feature a propeller-driven engine in the front for long range performance and a jet engine in the tail for high speed in combat.
One Mile at a Time
JUNE 11, 2025
Specifically, I was flying on F-GZNQ, Air France’s first jet with the new first class cabin ( and a tip-to-tail makeover , for that matter). While other airlines have doors in first class, Air France instead has floor-to-ceiling curtains. Air France Boeing 777-300ER Paris Talk about a seamless ground experience.
Aerotime
MARCH 21, 2025
While the report draws no conclusions as to the cause of the crash, investigators set out a detailed timeline which focuses heavily on the Mitsubishi CRJ900s descent. TSB At a height of 50 feet the rate of descent had increased to 1114 feet per minute (fpm) from 672 fpm around 14 seconds before. to the right, the TSB said.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
In order to shorten development time and save costs, the aircraft featured components of two closely related aircraft of the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas: the wings, ailerons, and landing gear of aBeech Bonanza general aviation aircraft and the tail assemblyof a Beech T-34 Mentor military trainer.
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