Aerotime

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Fragments of the windscreen entered the cockpit, causing minor injuries to the captain in the left-hand flight deck seat. RELATED “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday” – AeroTime’s guide to aviation emergency communications The post Captain of Flair Airlines 737 injured as birdstrike shatters cockpit window appeared first on AeroTime.

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Cockpit Airlines Airline Flight Deck 286

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

At the forefront of this technological push is European aerospace conglomerate Airbus, whose efforts to develop AI-driven cockpit technology have sparked intense opposition from pilot associations worldwide. And bear in mind, if you go to a one-man cockpit, you might as well go to a zero-man cockpit.” The debate: Safety vs.

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Pilot Flight Deck Cockpit Air Traffic Control 278

Simple Flying

APRIL 26, 2025

The incident occurred yesterday, April 25, 2025, when pilots reported smoke and a concerning smell in the cockpit, according to The Aviation Herald. The aircraft landed safely and passengers were reaccommodated to get to their destination.

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Cockpit Airlines Airline Pilot 94

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the event in a statement, saying: “While taxiing for takeoff at Dallas Love Field Airport, Southwest Airlines Flight 2494 was reportedly struck by gunfire near the cockpit around 8:30 p.m. local time on Friday, Nov. The Boeing 737-800 returned to the gate, where passengers deplaned.

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Airlines Airline Cockpit Runway 283

Aerotime

APRIL 3, 2025

Even the most automated aircraft, such as the Airbus A350, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and the F-35 military jet, come with such instruments fitted as standard should an electrical failure affect the more modern cockpit display screens. These three levels of control are ascending in their level of aircraft control and capability.

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Weight-Shift-Control Cockpit Pilot Stability 303

Simple Flying

JUNE 9, 2025

As first reported by News4Jax , the Boeing 757-200 was flying from Atlanta to Orlando when smoke began pouring into the cockpit. Pilots aboard Delta flight DL1576 experienced a serious scare on June 9, 2025.

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Cockpit Pilot Airlines Airline 97

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

On February 14, 2025, Homendy said that 17 seconds before impact a message from ATC directing the Black Hawk crew to pass behind the PSA Airlines operated Bombardier CRJ700 was audible on both aircrafts Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR).

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Air Traffic Control Altimeter Cockpit Pilot 279

Aerotime

JANUARY 12, 2025

According to the Yonhap News Agency , the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Jeju Air Boeing 737 only captured data up until around four minutes before the plane collided with an airport embankment.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Cockpit 286

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 30, 2025

Mayday, mayday, mayday, American 2332, declaring an emergency, we got smoke in the cockpit, well be returning to Dallas. Smoke in the cockpit can potentially represent a serious risk, so its something thats taken very seriously. What do you make of this American A320 cockpit smoke incident?

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Cockpit Air Traffic Control Pilot Jet 77

Aerotime

MARCH 10, 2025

The R88 will become the largest aircraft Robinson has designed to date, with a capacity for eight main cabin seats, two cockpit seats, and a payload capacity of up to 1,800 lbs (816kg) with full fuel. In the cockpit, the R88 will feature a Garmin avionics suite, including large G500H TXi displays touchscreen controls.

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Payload Cockpit Cargo Clearance 258

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The aircraft has a roomy cockpit, its easy to fly and the avionics are user friendly. Were proud to be the first SkyCourier customer in Canada, and this aircraft is a perfect fit for supporting the cargo side of our business, said Rick Horwath, President and CEO, Air Bravo. We look forward to putting it to use.

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Payload Cargo Cockpit Jet 286

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The mechanical issue, which concerned the cockpit windshield, occurred about 90 minutes after takeoff from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, AP News reported. This evening, en route from Washington to Munich, the plane on which Secretary Rubio is flying experienced a mechanical issue, the spokesperson said.

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Cockpit 255

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The glass cockpit will help prepare them for their future careers flying large commercial jets, said Jane Wang, Director of Sales, Marketing, and Flight Ops at Diamond Aircraft Austria, in a press release. It has a jet-fuel powerplant which the manufacturer claims can save up to 50% on fuel, as compared to similar aircraft powered by AVGAS.

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Cockpit Jet Pilot Airlines 261

Aerotime

JANUARY 17, 2025

” The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Jeju Air crash only captured data up until around four minutes before the aircraft collided with an airport embankment. . “We found some feathers in the process of digging out the soil that entered the engine.

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Runway Cockpit 321

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This milestone marked the first time that such a feat has been achieved in a fully conforming, triply-redundant production aircraft without any backup conventional controls in the cockpit. With this latest development, the aircraft can now take off and land simply through the use of the SkyOS software installed in the cockpit.

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Cockpit Pilot Lift Aviation Technology 238

Aerotime

MAY 7, 2025

The aircraft, which is owned by Toulouse Air and Space Academy (AAE), an association founded by the first Concorde pilot Andr Turcat, has retained all its equipment and testing devices, its cockpit, and its engineer’s station. Cet avion a incarn la force industrielle et la capacit dinnovation de la France sur le plan aronautique.

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Cockpit Runway Pilot 306

Aerotime

MARCH 28, 2025

The two thumps that signalled the beginning of the end of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 At 16:08, the cockpit voice recorder heard Captain Thompson saying, “I’m going to click it off. No emergency had been declared, so Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was being treated as a regular incoming flight. You got it?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airlines Airline 278

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Meanwhile, air traffic controllers reported seeing fire emanating from the aircraft, resulting in the crew evacuating the aircraft via ropes from the cockpit windows. Total Linhas Aereas 737-400 freighter destroyed by a cargo hold fire after making an emergency landing at Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport in Brazil.

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Air Traffic Control Cargo Runway Transponder 294

Flight Training Central

MAY 14, 2025

The flight deck of every airplane includes a collection of flight instruments that display important information, like airspeed, altitude, heading and turn information. In this video we’ll go over the standard 6 instruments you’ll find in a Cessna 172 and how to interpret their indications.

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Airplanes Cockpit Flight Deck 87

Aerotime

MARCH 26, 2025

On December 20, 2024, the Transport Accident and Incident Investigation Division completed the primary analysis of its safety investigation into the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder of the DHL cargo aircraft. As such, previous theories of terrorism or sabotage being behind the crash are no longer being considered.

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Descent Cargo Cockpit Pilot 252

Aerotime

JANUARY 27, 2025

The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) failed to capture the final moments of the flight, stopping at 08:58:50 local time. Both engines were buried in the embankment’s soil mound, and the fore fuselage scattered up to 30-200 meters from the embankment, the report read.

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Runway Knot Cockpit Approach 289

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

According to the UKs Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), a damp lease is defined as a wet-leased aircraft that includes a cockpit crew but not cabin attendants. To support its long-haul expansion IndiGo has placed a firm order for 30 Airbus A350-900s, with an option for an additional 70 aircraft. Deliveries are expected to commence in 2027.

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Cockpit Airlines Airline 253

Simple Flying

JUNE 2, 2025

If youve ever looked into the cockpit of a Boeing or Airbus aircraft, one major difference immediately stands out: Boeing jets use a traditional control yoke, while Airbus aircraft feature a side stick mounted to the left or right of the pilots seat.

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Cockpit Jet Pilot 108

Aerotime

APRIL 4, 2025

The exact cause of the disappearance has never been established, with theories ranging from mechanical failure to a hijacking attempt, or a deliberate intervention by those in the cockpit.

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Weather Air Traffic Control Cockpit Airlines 215

Aerotime

JANUARY 13, 2025

Both the aircrafts flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR)only captured data up until around four minutes before the plane collided with an airport embankment.

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Cockpit Runway Jet Airlines 294

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

While the cause of the disappearance has never been confirmed, theories have included mechanical failure, a hijacking attempt, or a deliberate intervention by those in the cockpit, causing the total loss of the aircraft. Questions remain unanswered as to why the aircraft steered off course and across the Indian Ocean.

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Airlines Airline Cockpit 228

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Officials from the National Transport Safety Bureau (NTSB) hope the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will shed light on what caused the tragedy on January 31, 2025. The black box belonging to a Learjet 55 ambulance aircraft that crashed in Philadelphia has been found by investigators at a depth of eight feet.

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Descent Knot Jet Cockpit 273

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

After landing the crew advised they no longer had a live smoke condition on board, and that there had not been any smoke indication warning in the aircraft cockpit. The aircraft touched down back on runway 25R at Los Angeles at 21:32, just 28 minutes after its original departure.

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Cabin Crew Runway Cockpit Approach 266

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

automating various manual processes, and allowing airlines to take advantage of investments made in cockpit digital communications. The FAA adds that the ATOP system is responsible for: fully integrating the flight and radar data processing detecting conflicts between aircraft.

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Air Traffic Control Cockpit Airlines Airline 281

Simple Flying

MAY 18, 2025

This occurred shortly after the captain had temporarily left the cockpit. A Lufthansa Airbus A321-200 aircraft en route to Seville, Spain, flew without a pilot for approximately ten minutes after the first officer suffered a seizure.

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Pilot Cockpit Airlines Airline 115

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 2, 2025

Progress has been particularly visible in the cockpit section, where major components such as seats, flight controls, and instrument panel structures are being refitted. The forward fuselage of Lacey Lady as seen in May 2025, showing significant progress between Stations 3 and 4, which house the cockpit and top turret.

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Cockpit Firewall Hangar Tail 124

Simple Flying

MAY 26, 2025

Air New Zealand has flown one of its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft back from Australia after the aircraft suffered a collision with a jetbridge, resulting in a small hole just below the cockpit windows earlier in May.

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Cockpit Airlines Airline 108

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This aircraft features an advanced digital cockpit, reinforced airframe, enhanced fuel tanks, and other improvements allowing increased performance and commonality with the expanding global fleet of updated Chinooks, Boeing said in a statement.

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Lift Stability Cockpit Cargo 210

Simple Flying

MAY 18, 2025

Indeed, this is probably the most comprehensive update to an airliner that we've seen in recent decades, with a brand new wing, redesigned cabin, new cockpit displays, and a fuselage stretch.

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Cockpit Airlines Airline 116

Aerotime

MAY 9, 2025

The Anthem flight deck combines cockpit displays, software, controls and connectivity into one digital platform, designed to be intuitive and highly automated. These include the aircraft management system which operates the Honeywell Anthem Flight deck , plus the flight controls system which uses Honeywells compact fly-by-wire system.

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Flight Deck Stability Cockpit Pilot 236

Aerotime

JANUARY 6, 2025

The 757 provided an advanced, two-man cockpit with high-technology digital displays. The Boeing 757 was designed to operate medium-range, transcontinental flights and to offer airlines operational efficiency, versatility, and performance which surpassed that offered by the types it replaced.

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Cargo Cockpit Weather Runway 269

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Flightradar24 Due to its steep approach, London-City Airport places high demands on both the aircraft and the specially trained cockpit crews, said Tobias Pogorevc, CEO of Helvetic Airways, following the aircrafts safe arrival in London.

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Jet Approach Cockpit Runway 291