Even if the black boxes from Air France flight AF447 are retrieved, the question remains: to what extent was this disaster caused by pilots thinking more like accountants or shareholders than as pilots?
Airline crashes
Attention all media: an Australian jet crashed last night
Jet crashes are rare in Australia, but one happened last night at Norfolk Island and no-one in the media noticed. All six people on board the CareFlight medical evacuation jet have survived
US lawyer sues Airbus (and everyone else) over Air France disaster
A US lawyer is suing everyone who made anything that was part of the Air France Airbus flight that crashed into the mid Atlantic in June, reports Ben Sandilands.
AF447 disaster: was the radar really working?
There is one strange but not necessarily consequential omission in the official interim report into the June’s Air France disaster, says Ben Sandilands: nowhere does it confirm that the weather radar was switched on.
In tourism, even libel can be a world away
Libel tourism has been catapulted into the headlines after aviation writer Joe Sharkey was served a writ for defamatory statements he says he didn’t make in Brazil after surviving a mid-air collision in 2006.
How to get an Airbus A320 out of the Hudson river
Dragging the wreck out the water in photos.
The One-Two-Go crash: Who’s to blame?
The emphasis on the pilots and their attempted landing in heavy rain at Phuket in the One-Two-Go crash misses one point. Heavy rain, often with treacherous winds or down draughts, is routine for airlines serving Thai airports, writes Ben Sandilands.
