Report blames pilot error for Arusha jet drama

Pilot error was to blame when an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 with 223 people on board made an unscheduled landing at Arusha Airport last month, says a new report.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Jan

Airline scoffs at ‘pilot error’ verdict in report

>Ethiopia Airlines has agreed with the preliminary report by Tanzania Air Accident Investigation Branch (Taib) about wrong airport landing incident at Arusha, involving its Boeing 767 last month.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

28 Feb

Military jet crashes in Mwanza, pilot injured

Military jet crashes in Mwanza, pilot injured
Daily News
TANZANIA People's Defence Forces (TPDF) Major Peter Lyamunda cheated death on Friday after a fighter jet he was piloting crashed as it was taking off at the Mwanza Airport on Friday. Mwanza Airport Manager, Ms Easter Madale, confirmed the incident, ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Apr

Missing jet drama boosts veteran Malaysian politician

Malaysia’s missing plane has made Hishammuddin Hussein (pictured) a globally recognised lightning rod for foreign criticism of his country’s handling of the crisis, but could end up catapulting him to prime minister someday.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Aug

OUR KIND OF ENGLISH: TRY and error? No; it is ‘TRIAL and error’

In the Friday, August 21 edition of the tabloid whose boss signs this columnist’s pay cheque, there was an article on Page 19, penned by an upcountry correspondent, entitled, “Why I quit bodaboda game”. Para 6 goes thus:

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Mar

SPECIAL REPORT: Arusha college holds the future of bio-medical engineering

>A patient arrives at a hospital seeking treatment from fever, a common medical condition characterised by high body temperature above a normal range.

 

9 years ago

BBC

04 Dec

Nigeria's $500m typing error

Nigeria's telecom regulator says it made a $500m (£330m) typing error when announcing a reduction in the fine imposed on Africa's largest mobile operator, MTN.

 

10 years ago

BBC

Czech Ebola error sparks Ghana row

Czech medical workers spark a diplomatic row after covering a Ghanaian student in black plastic and isolating him over unfounded fears he had Ebola.

 

5 years ago

SciTechDaily

18 Feb

MIT Devises More Efficient Error Correction for Quantum Devices

MIT Devises More Efficient Error Correction for Quantum Devices  SciTechDailyCorrecting the “jitters” in quantum devices  MIT NewsView Full coverage on Google News

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Apr

Experts predict pilot crisis

Tanzania will have a serious shortage of pilots unless immediate measures are taken to avert the problem, aviation experts have warned.

 

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