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The Essence of Safety podcast

@essenceofsafety.bsky.social

The Essence of Safety delves beyond the headlines, uncovering the deeper stories behind accidents. It explores why they happen, the lessons they teach, and the crucial details often overlooked. Because true understanding lies beneath the surface.

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Colleen Mondor@chasingray.bsky.social · 3w ago

On Bering Air flight 445 and how unanswerable questions about the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed and exit icing conditions will haunt this crash forever. alaskabeacon.com/2026/07/31/a...

After fed report, Alaska pilots grapple with unanswered questions in tragic Nome crash | Alaska Beacon

The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday released the final report for the February 6, 2025, accident involving Bering Air flight 445 that killed all 10 people on board. While the NTSB’s r...

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The Essence of Safety podcast@essenceofsafety.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Quite interesting. The drone industry seems to be repeating the same pitfalls that once challenged commercial aviation: mode confusion, limited understanding of automation, and the instinct to rely on the autopilot instead of reverting to manual control. Was the pilot too busy demo-ing his drone?

Aerossurance@aerossurance.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#OTD 2021 a drone demo in a prison car park(!) resulted in a LOC-I and injury due to the geo-fence around the site. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #drone #uas #uav #rpas #flightsafety #aviationsafety

Kyra Dempsey - Admiral Cloudberg@kyracloudy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Do you have a bone to pick about some aspect of the DCA mid-air? ATC working conditions, DCA traffic, army aviation safety culture, whatever it may be—please send me any links about it that you think I should read before I put pen to paper for my draft article, and I'll add them to the stack.

The Essence of Safety podcast@essenceofsafety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On this day in 2018, Elaine Herzberg became the first pedestrian killed in a self-driving car collision. The investigation revealed familiar patterns: reliance on automation, human factors, unforeseen scenarios, and organisational pressures. Listen: A Meditation on Automation

The Essence of Safety podcast@essenceofsafety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

OTD in 2017, Rescue 116, a SAR helicopter on a support mission, crashed into Blackrock, an island on Ireland's west coast. All four crew members on board, Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, Chief Pilot Mark Duffy, winch operator Paul Ormsby, and winch man Ciarán Smith were killed.

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today in 1995, US and Norwegian scientists launched a Black Brant XII high-altitude sounding rocket from Andøya Island off of Norway to study the aurora borealis. A Russian early-warning radar on the Kola Peninsula quickly detected the launch, which operators mistook for a US Trident II D5 SLBM.

A color photograph of a long, thin, needle-like Black Brant XII sounding rocket at launch, with a bright orange plume of exhaust emanating from its tail end as the rocket leaves the launch rail. The rocket is painted black, silver, red, white, and yellow.
@jacdecnews.bsky.social · 10mo ago

2025-11-04: UPS MD-11F (N259UP, *1991) suffered an engine #1 explosion on take-off runway 17R at Louisville-Intl AP(KSDF), KY with 3 crew on board, lost height and crashed about 1 mile S of the runway. All occupants of flight #UP2956 to Honolulu perished. Also, 4 people on the ground died.

Jon Ostrower@jonostrower.com · 10mo ago

Little is known about the UPS MD-11F accident at this point, but footage taken from the air shows a chunk of one engine nacelle inlet sitting at a spot 2,000 feet before the end of runway 17R at SDF.

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Aerossurance@aerossurance.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#OTD 2011 As the crew did not declare an autoland, ATC allowed another aircraft to depart which interfered with the localiser signal say BFU in a report issued after 85 months. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #flightsafety #aviationsafety

B777 in Autoland Mode Left Runway When Another Aircraft Interfered With the Localiser Signal - Aerossurance

As the crew did not declare an autoland, ATC allowed another aircraft to depart which interfered with the localiser signal.

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The Essence of Safety podcast@essenceofsafety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

After many months of research, I finally finished the write-up for the next episode - and started recording it. Unforeseen circumstances aside, I should publish it next week. The first part is about this ⬇️ accident. Fortunately no-one got seriously hurt. Any idea what it was?

A DC-8 airliner ditched in shallow waters. In front of it, a small patrol vessel.