"I'm unable to move forward." The Delta captain sat in the deicing area, engines running, refusing to taxi. He was following the airport's own safety rules. Minutes later, his decision would be vindicated in the worst possible way. https://t.co/BYXbm5ZvD7

ATP fired him for pulling circuit breakers and cutting mixture during a student's flight. Eagle Aviation took him on immediately without checking his story. Six weeks later he was dead.

The viral TAP Air Portugal toilet/pilot confusion audio is hilarious. It's also missing some pretty basic details that made me wonder about its origins.

BREAKING: Three Russian MiG-31 fighters flew into Estonian airspace and headed toward the capital, Tallinn, according to Politico. The jets circled for about 12 minutes before NATO scrambled Italian F-35s to repel them. 🇪🇪

A weird photo on r/shittyaskflying and suddenly my entire Friday was lost.

The Horizon Air pilot who tried to shut down engines mid-flight has pleaded guilty to reduced charges. Joseph Emerson was experiencing his first psychotic break and believed he was dreaming when he pulled those fire handles.

This week on Fear of Landing: a pilot chute caught in the slipstream during climb at Vannes led to a sky diver being dragged out of the aircraft.

Hard to make sense of how this happened... all onboard confirmed to have evacuated safely.

Three seconds. That's how long it took for a routine training flight over Norfolk to become a total loss. Sometimes following every procedure isn't enough.

An An-24 executes a go-around at a remote Russian airport and disappears. No distress call, no system failures obvious before impact.

The Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 was supposed to carry only essential crew to Pokhara for maintenance, but 19 people were on board when it crashed seconds after takeoff from Kathmandu. The investigation reveals failures that had been building for years.

The Air India Flight 171 preliminary report reveals that the fuel cutoff switches didn't fail - someone moved them. The cockpit voice recording tells us what happened next, but not who or why.

Park and View has officially opened for arrivals day, marking the start of #RIAT25! We’ve got aircraft arriving from all over the world at RAF Fairford today ahead of this weekend - it’s going to be a good one 🤩

B is for Bedridden and B-52s. https://t.co/OOz9vbAqiZ

King Air E90 crashes onto Butler Avionics hangar roof at New Century AirCenter after left engine failure. Both occupants walked away. The hangar specialises in King Air maintenance -- talk about landing at the right place.

Yesterday's crash in Ahmedabad broke the aircraft's previously unblemished safety record. Some people think they know the answer already, but grainy videos rarely tell the complete story. A look at the known facts and current theories on Fear of Landing:

An Instagram post from the right seat, a broken weather system, and a set of power lines marked on the approach plate. The pieces of yesterday's Citation II crash in San Diego tell a complex story of decisions made in difficult conditions.

"Plane caught fire as pilot confused left and right" reads the BBC headline about a BA 777 at Gatwick. But the AAIB report reveals something much more interesting: an "action slip" that bypassed conscious thought. https://t.co/T8DDs9HeWE

March 2023: Reports blamed severe turbulence for Challenger 300 passenger death. NTSB's final report tells a very different story.

The comment section on this helicopter accident investigation is ON FIRE 🔥 The article shows what happens with unusual cargo, but the comments are the real star attraction!