A collision between two Airbus aircraft of Vietnam’s budget carrier Vietjet Air occurred at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Saturday, the second event at the same airport this month, according to aviation authorities. The incident happened at around 6:09 pm on Saturday when a parked Airbus A321 Neo plane was hit by another […]
November 2021
Wreckage of TransAir flight 810 recovered from waters off Oahu
The flight recorders and wreckage of a Boeing 737-200 cargo plane that crashed in waters off Oahu in July have been successfully recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board announced. Recovery efforts began on Oct. 12 and took nearly three weeks to complete. “The recovery of the recorders and virtually the entire airplane represents a major […]
What is Wind Shear?
Wind shear is a microscale meteorological phenomenon occurring over a very small distance, but it can be associated with mesoscale or synoptic scale weather features such as squall lines and cold fronts. It is commonly observed near microbursts and downbursts caused by thunderstorms, fronts, areas of locally higher low level winds referred to as low […]