Military flight operations are inherently dangerous, whether conducted in peacetime or during actual operations. As the child of a career US Air Force aircraft maintenance officer, and later as a Naval Aerial Observer with the US Marines, I have experienced the life and death consequences of operating aircraft during war …
Read More »Black Hawks Down – does a slew of fatal chopper crashes indicate a larger crisis with US military procurement and effectiveness?
Military flight operations are inherently dangerous, whether conducted in peacetime or during actual operations. As the child of a career US Air Force aircraft maintenance officer, and later as a Naval Aerial Observer with the US Marines, I have experienced the life and death consequences of operating aircraft during war …
Read More »Boeing agrees to pay $2.5bn fine facing ‘fraud conspiracy’ charges over 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people
“The tragic crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 exposed fraudulent and deceptive conduct by employees of one of the world’s leading commercial airplane manufacturers,” Acting Assistant Attorney General David Burns said in a statement on Thursday. Boeing’s employees chose the path of profit over candor by …
Read More »Messaging platform Slack crashes, users around the world report service outage
The tech firm apologized for the disruption to services and said its team is currently looking into the issue. “We’re still investigating the ongoing connectivity issues with Slack,” the company said in an update about the outage. “All hands are on deck on our end to further investigate.” Slack’s own system dashboard …
Read More »Dutch journalist crashes ‘secret’ EU defense meeting after access code accidentally posted online
The ‘hack’ occurred on Friday, when RTL Nieuws journalist Daniel Verlaan managed to sneak into the online gathering of the EU bigwigs. Footage of the incident, shared by the reporter online, shows a smiling Verlaan waving to the officials, many of whom were not exactly glad to see the reporter …
Read More »Two crew dead as US Navy aircraft crashes into Alabama home, sparking fire (VIDEO)
“A US Navy T-6B Texan II aircraft crashed in Foley, Alabama, at approximately 5 pm CST today. The aircrew did not survive the crash. We are not aware of any civilian casualties this time,” US Naval Air Forces reported on Friday afternoon. The single-engine turboprop aircraft crashed into a home …
Read More »Military aircraft crashes in north-eastern Ukraine, killing at least 22 (VIDEO)
The turboprop plane crashed late on Friday as it was about to land at an airfield outside the town of Chuguev. The governor of the Kharkov region, Alexey Kucher, said that according to preliminary information, 22 of the 28 people on board were killed. Most of the plane has seemingly …
Read More »Serbian MiG-21 fighter jet crashes near village during routine flight, 1 pilot reportedly killed, 1 missing
The aircraft was flying a routine mission when it crashed near the village of Brasina. Rescue teams have been dispatched to the scene. Serbian media published photos showing the wreckage of the fuselage in a wooded area. Broadcaster RTS reported that one pilot was killed, while another is missing. According to …
Read More »US army helicopter crashes in Syria’s north – state media
According to SANA, the US helicopter crashed in the countryside near the town of Al-Yaarubiyah in Syria’s northeast, close to the Iraqi border. Citing local sources, the outlet reported that US armored vehicles were deployed to the crash site. SANA did not say what type of helicopter it was and …
Read More »4 South Koreans killed, US soldier injured after car crashes into US army armoured vehicle near Seoul
The crash took place in the city of Pocheon, some 40 km (25 miles) north of South Korea’s capital of Seoul, late on Sunday, Yonhap news agency reported. The car, with four civilians on board reportedly butted the rear of a US military vehicle on its way to a military …
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