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Amazon Prime Miami’s 767 Crash: The Approach Data That Caught my Attention
A descent that briefly flattens. A steeper approach close to the runway. What the flight track reveals and the questions only the investigation can…
Sep 9
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Smoke at 33,000ft: Swissair 111 Had 21 Minutes Left
Twenty-eight years ago this week, a faint smell over the Atlantic changed how every pilot alive today handles smoke. Here’s what really happened from…
Sep 3
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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August 2026
A Vietnam Airlines 787 Nearly Overran Munich. Here's Why...
A pilot's read of the Munich overrun: what the skid marks show, what the arithmetic says, and the three explanations still standing.
Aug 26
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Everyone thinks autoland is a modern computer thing. Concorde did it in 1975, with relays.
Decision height 10 feet. Runway visibility 150 metres. Not a single programmable computer on board. Here is how the fastest airliner ever built put…
Aug 19
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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How Pilots Decide Exactly How Much Fuel To Carry (And Why “Fill It Up” Is The Wrong Answer)
Your plane didn’t leave with full tanks, it left with a number I signed for. Here’s how that number gets built, in plain English.
Aug 13
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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A British Airways A320 Lost 800 Feet Over London on July 6. But Did It Actually Stall?
A stall warning, an 800-foot drop and screams in the cabin: what passengers experienced aboard BA919.
Aug 5
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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July 2026
Is It Actually Safe to Fly a Boeing Right Now?
Two Boeing headlines landed ten days apart this month. One of them looks much worse than it is, and the other one is the reason I’m not worried.
Jul 30
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Both Engines Quit at 720 Feet and No Checklist Covered It.
Less than a minute from touchdown, British Airways Flight 38 lost both engines and every procedure the crew had ever trained.
Jul 16
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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A Window Shattered at 15,000 Feet This Morning — Here’s Why the Aeroplane Was Never the Problem
What actually happened on Ryanair FR1879, and the part of the story nobody is writing about.
Jul 10
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Everything I Wish You Knew Before You Fly This Summer
A captain’s honest guide to flying calmer, smarter, and further this season.
Jul 2
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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June 2026
I Was Sure This Video Was Fake. Then I Found Out It Was Real.
A Boeing 777 wingtip a few feet from a Texas runway and every reason I thought no real crew would ever do it.
Jun 26
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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A 787 Made a Surprise Fuel Stop in the Outback This Week. Here’s the Part That Should Make You Less Nervous.
What the headlines missed and what it quietly tells us about the wild 22-hour flights Qantas just locked in for 2027.
Jun 25
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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