By Courtney E. Howard
It has been a busy month for news with aviation-related incidents--including crash landings, equipment failures, and deadly crashes--commanding worldwide attention. Aerospace professionals, especially those working on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the U.S., have focused their attentions on commercial aviation and general aviation incidents in:
- Soldotna, Alaska, where a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter single-engine, high-wing, propeller-driven, short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft operating as an air taxi crashed, and
- San Francisco, California, where a Boeing 777 commercial airliner operated by Asiana Airlines crash-landed.
Both accidents are under investigation, but news being released almost daily related to Asiana Airlines Flight 214.
Avionics Intelligence shares the latest news on the unfortunate event, as well as newly released images related to the crash-landing, on the pages that follow.
