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Accident Briefs—July 2025

Plane and Pilot

The student turned early onto the base leg of the airport traffic pattern, then turned onto final approach, resulting in the airplane being high and fast. The postaccident examination revealed a fuel leak in a fitting where the fuel line passes through the firewall to the engine.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) differentiates an accident from an incident by imposing a threshold of aircraft damage set at $1 million. During the landing, following an excessive pitch-up movement by the aircraft, its aft fuselage contacted the runway approximately 326 meters (1,070ft) beyond the runway threshold.