The crash of a cargo airplane at Charleston, West Virginia in 2017 raised issues that must be troubling chief pilots all over the country. How do air carriers, particularly smaller ones, ensure the ...

Circling approaches are 25 times less safe than straight-in approches and thus should be conducted only as a last resort. Pilot, safety expert, consultant, and aviation journalist Stuart “Kipp” Lau ...

Example circling maneuver at Memphis IAP, Tennessee. Author graphic. I used to think of the circle-to-land maneuver following an instrument approach as a necessary evil. We had a lot of airports to go ...

The Airblue Airbus A321 that crashed yesterday, killing all 152 people on board, was doing a circling approach to runway 12 at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport. The "aircraft was ...

Learjet Fatal Occurred in a Circling Approach The aircraft was less than a mile from Runway 6 when it turned right to circle for approach, but aircraft typically are 3.8-nm during the right turn.