Did Mystery FOD Ground A380?
The middle eastern airline Emirates believes that an unidentified "foreign object" in an electrical system caused the September grounding of…
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Carelessness can trigger FOD and ruin your day in a hurry. Every day FOD damages equipment on a flight line somewhere, costing thousands of dollars in repairs. We all know it affects our operations when assets are not available to…
The middle eastern airline Emirates believes that an unidentified "foreign object" in an electrical system caused the September grounding of…
They're ganging up on us: an Estonian Air Boeing 737 en route to Oslo suffered multiple points of damage while…
The Night before Flight 9, in the Land of FOD -- a very close call by Fred "The FODFixer" Reid…
For the past fifteen years, a wildlife specialist has used specially-trained raptors to chase birds from Leeds Bradford International Airport.…
Rat In Da Vat! Assessing Your Airport's FOD Culture by Master Sergeant Steven Ball Foreign Object Debris (FOD) in aircraft…
If you think about it, “foreign objects” are not a problem unless they are not Deposited correctly and therefore cause…
For a detailed timeline of all the events that led up to and since the French Concorde crash, visit www.aviation.about.com.…
From THE NET - The Atlanta Worldport Safety Newsletter In 2005 Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Cost Us About $16,000,000 Whether…
September 2004 A major US airline flight departing Chicago O’Hare Airport with over one hundred passengers on board experienced a…
From super scoopers to super sleuths, the arsenal to prevent FOD has new entries. Separated from its coffee-cup companion, a…