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

Aerotime

Post-accident assessment of the aircraft revealed substantial damage to the auxiliary power unit (APU) firewall bulkhead, resulting from the aircrafts aft fuselages contact with the runway surface. Inflight icing was heavily suspected as the cause of the accident, causing a loss of lift and a stall-induced spin. No hay heridos.

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Albatross of a Task

Plane and Pilot

The Albatross, firewall forward, is set up as a “quick engine change” package, which means that the entire assembly comes off as a unit—engine, accessories, and its mount disconnect from the firewall and can be exchanged as a unit. The first day I was tasked with disconnecting a supercharger control pushrod at the firewall.