Showing posts with label Accidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accidents. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

That Is Not Going To Buff Out

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On April 30, quite a storm rolled through Oakland County. While the winds were gusting heavily, the flight school successor to Fligh...
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Sunday, August 13, 2023

MiG-23 Down At Thunder Over Michigan

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I didn't make it to Thunder Over Michigan this year.  Thus year, MiG-23 didn't make it out. No cause has been announced yet, with on...
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Friday, December 02, 2022

Early Accident Analysis - That's Not What They Mean When They Say Contact Tower

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The accident in which the Mooney caught the three-wire, along with the rest of the Tower,  in Gaithersburg, Maryland drew quite a bit of att...
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Sunday, November 13, 2022

Two Airplanes And Crews Down In Airshow Collision

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A terrible accident at the Commemorative Air Force’s Wings Over Dallas Show occurred yesterday. Fox 4: Historic military planes collide in m...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Another Case Of VFR Into IMC With Sadly Predictable Results

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Flying as a VFR pilot into IMC conditions is still one of the top killers of pilots, most especially if you're not instrument rated. On ...
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Saturday, July 02, 2022

Sad News From The Battle Creek Air Show

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WMMT: One dead after truck explosion at Field of Flight in Battle Creek The Shockwave Jet Truck was racing two planes as part of the Field o...
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Monday, April 12, 2021

Deterring Dry-Fire Disasters

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Had a call from a client this morning. A good, solid, experienced shooter.  Lots of trigger time and dry-fire time. He had been dry-firing a...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The Third Time Was Not The Charm - Or Weight And Balance Matter

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Weight and balance is a key preflight step before you takeoff in an aircraft. When you mess it up, bad things tend to happen. In this case...
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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Snowbird Down

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A Canadian Forces CT-114 Tutor Aircraft of the Snowbirds Aerobatic team has gone down near Kamploops BC. Global News: CF Snowbird crashes n...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Speaking Of Mid Air Collisions . . . .

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The below picture is what happens when a Daddy Cirrus SR22 loves a Mommy Cirrus SR20 very much: Picture from @wjxt4/Twitter and Flying Maga...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Weight And Balance Are Not Optional

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Cessna 172s while having 4 seats, are really 3 seat aircraft when it comes to adults. Overloading it, as is the case with any airplane, lea...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

No, Weight And Balance Checks Are Not Optional

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Over at Bayou Renaissance Man , you can watch a video where having an airplane being overweight on takeoff had some bad but not fatal conseq...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

You Don't See That Kind Of Accident Report Everyday

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The Detroit News: NTSB: Pilot of spaceship unlocked braking system early That the NTSB conducted an investigation of an accident involving...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

The Hits Keep On Coming...

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I had just completed a seminar presentation at the business center at Michigan State University in East Lansing on business entity legal con...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Useless Question of the Night

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Question: If you slice a Ford Fusion into parts, do you call it a Ford Fission?
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Monday, September 26, 2011

On vehicles, and the value of Paying Attention

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So, on the way to the USPSA match yesterday and going to pick up my friend Rob for his first match, I was minding my own business. Stopped a...
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