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Japan's transport safety management system, created to prevent accidents caused by human error in public transportation, marks its 20th anniversary this year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/06/japan/japan-transport-safety-human-error/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airaccidents #rail #aviation #mlit

FlyDubai hijacking turns into flash point in Israeli election

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to seize the opportunity to associate himself with the heroics of…
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/319069/ FlyDubai hijacking turns into flash point in Israeli election #AirAccidents #Aviation #BenjaminNeta​nyahu #Flydubai #Israel

After the FlyDubai hijacking incident, one of the Israeli election's most potent themes is showing: accountability for security failures. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/06/world/politics/flydubai-hijacking-israeli-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israel #flydubai #aviation #airaccidents #benjaminnetanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a security review of international flights to Israel, after an attempt by an Omani co-pilot to crash an Israel-bound plane from Dubai. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/05/world/israel-flight-security-flydubai-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #middleeast #benjaminnetanyahu #terrorism #flydubai #airaccidents

https://www.europesays.com/people/254275/ Netanyahu orders security review of flights to Israel after Flydubai attack #AirAccidents #BenjaminNetanyahu #FlyDubai #Israel #MiddleEast #Terrorism

The co-pilot who attacked the commanding captain on the Flydubai flight en route to Tel Aviv from Dubai had flown for Oman Air before he was dismissed for engaging with what were considered radical views, sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/05/world/flydubai-co-pilot-extremism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #flydubai #terrorism #dubai #telaviv #middleeast #israel #airaccidents #aviation

Indian pilot Smit Machchhar was hailed as a "hero" on Thursday after fighting to retain control of a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight when his co-pilot allegedly attacked him, leaving him wounded but helping avert disaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/01/asia-pacific/indian-pilot-hero-israel-flight/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #aviation #flydubai #israel #uae #smitmachchhar #india #airaccidents

https://www.alojapan.com/1546313/ana-plane-makes-emergency-landing-at-naha-airport/ ANA plane makes emergency landing at Naha Airport #AIRACCIDENTS #airlines #ANA #Naha #news #Okinawa #OkinawaNews #沖縄 Naha – An All Nippon Airways plane carrying 152 passengers made an emergency landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday night due to a possible engine malfunction. Three passengers suffered minor injuries, such as scratches, ANA said. After the Boeing 737-800 jet left the airport for Saga Prefecture, an indicato

An Amazon Prime Air cargo flight overran a runway and crashed while landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, killing at least five people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/07/world/amazon-plane-crash-miami/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #amazon #miami #airaccidents #miamiinternationalairport

One year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the airline sector as a symbol of a rising India poised to "soar to great heights." Today, that optimism is facing a harsh reality check. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/31/companies/india-aviation-boom-safety-concerns/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #india #airlines #aviation #boeing #airaccidents

Australia's shortage of air-traffic controllers is showing signs of nearing a breaking point after the country's busiest airport recorded at least four near misses in the past month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/24/asia-pacific/air-safety-australia-close-calls/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #australia #airaccidents #airlines #aviation #travel

Based on her experience in the aftermath of the 1985 JAL crash, a former nurse is spreading her knowledge of seitai, or the arrangement of a deceased person's body. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/16/japan/jal-crash-nurse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #jal #airaccidents #flightjal123 #mountosutaka #hospitals #nurses

Former nurse passes on lessons from experience in aftermath of JAL crash

Fumiko Yamamoto still vividly remembers the moment she entered a gymnasium-turned-morgue as a nurse in the aftermath of the 1985 Japan Airlines crash. As she passed through the blackout curtain, “something heavy pressed down…
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https://www.alojapan.com/1524664/former-nurse-passes-on-lessons-from-experience-in-aftermath-of-jal-crash/ Former nurse passes on lessons from experience in aftermath of JAL crash #AIRACCIDENTS #FlightJAL123 #hospitals #JAL #Japan #JapanNews #MountOsutaka #news #Nurses Fumiko Yamamoto still vividly remembers the moment she entered a gymnasium-turned-morgue as a nurse in the aftermath of the 1985 Japan Airlines crash. As she passed through the blackout curtain, “something heavy pressed down on my shoulders,” recalled Yamamoto, now 82. “(That feelin

Victims of a 1985 Japan Airlines plane crash on a mountain in Gunma Prefecture are being mourned this month, 41 years later. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/12/japan/1985-jal-crash-victims-mourned/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #jal #ueno #gunma #airaccidents #flightjal123 #mountosutaka

A small plane appeared to have crashed into Beijing's tallest building on Friday, with witnesses reporting plane debris at the skyscraper's base and journalists seeing a hole in the building's upper floors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/27/asia-pacific/plane-crash-beijing-tallest-building/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #beijing #airaccidents

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Monday, killing the eight people aboard, the Pentagon has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/16/world/b-52-bomber-crash-california/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #california #us #airaccidents

India's aviation accident probe agency is facing renewed criticism from pilots ahead of the anniversary of the 2025 Air India Boeing-787 crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/11/asia-pacific/air-india-crash-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #airaccidents #india #southasia #aviation

https://www.europesays.com/people/56169/ Sánchez’s Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Ankara Due to Technical Fault #ATechnicalMalfunction #AirAccidents #Ankara #PedroSánchez #sánchez #spain #SpanishPrimeMinister #VoiceOfEmirates

South Korea's air force apologized on Thursday ⁠for a 2021 midair collision involving two fighter jets, a day after auditors said pilots were taking selfies during the flight and held them responsible. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/23/asia-pacific/south-korea-air-force-jet-collision-selfies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southkorea #airaccidents

Trivia: This phenomenon has caused #AirAccidents in the past, towards the end of their flights, as the enormous fuel load gets depleted and replaced by air. They avoid it these days by replacing the depleted fuel with nitrogen instead.

An air-traffic control system failed to alert personnel at LaGuardia Airport before Sunday's crash, an analysis has found. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/25/world/safety-system-fail-laguardia-crash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #travel #airports #newyork #laguardiaairport #us #aircanada #airaccidents

Two pilots died in a runway accident that shut New York's LaGuardia Airport, and U.S. President Donald Trump deployed armed immigration agents to help at major airports strained by personnel shortages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/24/world/ny-runway-ice-airports/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #newyork #ice #airaccidents #laguardiaairport #donaldtrumpus #congress #republicans #democrats

South Korea's transport ministry cut construction costs and approved improper airport safety structures for decades, a report on aviation safety management said after a Jeju Air crash killed 179 people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/11/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-jeju-air-plane/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #airaccidents #jeju

India’s aviation industry is poised for a reckoning after crises at its two dominant carriers exposed cracks in the booming market and forced government intervention. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/06/companies/crises-india-airlines-aviation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #aviation #india #airlines #airaccidents

The Japan Transport Safety Board has conducted a simulation experiment as part of its investigation into a fatal aircraft collision accident that occurred on a runway at Tokyo's Haneda Airport last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/25/japan/jal-haneda-collision-interim-report/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #airaccidents #hanedaairport

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will resume on Dec. 30, more than a decade after the Beijing-bound flight disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/asia-pacific/hunt-flight-mh370-malaysia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #malaysia #airaccidents

Three people were found in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest in a suspected plane crash in Fukuoka Prefecture, after Kyushu-Saga International Airport received a distress signal from an aircraft that had departed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/18/japan/fukuoka-plane-crash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #fukuoka #airaccidents #airports

U.S. federal safety investigators have located the "black box" recorders from the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane that crashed in flames on takeoff from the airport at Louisville, Kentucky, killing at least 12 people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/06/world/ups-plane-black-boxes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ups #kentucky #us #airaccidents

A UPS plane crashed and erupted into a fireball shortly after takeoff on Tuesday from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky, killing seven people and injuring 11 others. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/05/world/ups-plane-crash-kentucky/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ups #kentucky #us #airaccidents

Machiko Taniguchi, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, spoke directly to young JAL employees involved in flight safety in her first such opportunity since the tragedy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/widow-40-years-jal-flight-safety/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #aviation #mountosutaka #gunma #airaccidents #flightjal123

A Jeju Air plane that crashed in December after a bird strike could have kept flying on one damaged engine that was still working, according to South Korean investigators. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/28/asia-pacific/jeju-air-jet-engine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #jejuair #airaccidents #southkorea #boeing

A Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 170 in the country's deadliest aviation accident in decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/asia-pacific/bangladesh-jet-crash-school/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #bangladesh #airaccidents

Last month's deadly Air India crash and a recently released Australian report on the midair breakup of a helicopter in 2023 have renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over use of cockpit video cameras. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/society/air-india-cockpit-video-recorders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #airindia #airlines #aviation #airaccidents #india

India ordered its airlines to examine fuel switches on several Boeing models, while South Korea said it would order a similar measure, as scrutiny intensifies of fuel switch locks after a deadly Air India crash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/15/airlines-boeing-fuel-switches-air-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #boeing #airlines #aviation #airindia #airaccidents #india #southkorea

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have privately issued notifications that the fuel switch locks on Boeing planes are safe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/14/world/air-india-probe-us-faa-boeing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #airindia #us #faa #boeing #aviation #airlines #airaccidents