Tail strikes: A tail strike in the aviation sector means when the tail of an airplane touches the runway during takeoff or landing. Though there are various reasons behind the tail strike ...

the crew reviewed the tail-strike non-normal checklist, and diverted to land at Kolkata, where inspections confirmed that the skid shoe of the tail-skid assembly had come into contact with the runway.

This caused the plane to strike the ground on the underside of the tail assembly. The Qantas crew decided to return to the airport about 15 minutes after departure. Their cockpit instruments had ...

Guernsey airline Aurigny has changed some of its flight schedules between 19 May and 7 June due to a lack of aircraft availability. The decision follows the temporary removal of one aircraft from ...

A Qantas spokeswoman told The Australian: “In the event of a confirmed tail strike, our policy is to turn the aircraft around.” A Singapore Airlines spokesman yesterday confirmed that an ...

the day before a damaging tail-strike at Fez. The ATR 72-600 had been operating Lisbon-Fez, on behalf of TAP Express, on 6 July last year with the trainee first officer as the flying pilot.

The decision follows the temporary removal of one aircraft from service due to a tail strike in April. Aurigny said it was "proactively" announcing the changes early due to a lack of leasable ...

An Aurigny aircraft has been taken out of service following a "tail strike", a spokesperson for the airline has said. They added the airline's engineering team and partners were examining the ...

NEW DELHI: An IndiGo Airbus A321 (VT-IBI) suffered a tail strike while landing in Chennai on Saturday, and the aircraft was ...

The Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) took cognizance of the incident and ordered the grounding of pilots of the accident-hit aircraft. An IndiGo aircraft operating its Bengaluru-Ahmedabad ...

IndiGo aircraft: An IndiGo aircraft operating its Bengaluru-Ahmedabad flight suffered a tail strike while landing at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday. According to a Directorate General Civil ...