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A Runway Switch, a Vague Alert: What Pilots Heard Before Fatal D.C. Crash

Cross Fitnesss5 months ago014 mins

Just after 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, posed a question to the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342: Could they land at a different runway? There was nothing unusual about the request or the pilots’ assent to it. But the decision to switch runways…

What to Know About Plane Maintenance After the South Korean Crash

Cross Fitnesss5 months ago013 mins

The cause of the fatal plane crash in South Korea last month is still to be determined, but it thrust into the spotlight a subject little understood by the general public: how airplanes are maintained. Jeju Air, the airline that operated the flight in which 179 people died, said that checks before the flight had…