Constellation Foederatarum News
- The Merlin helicopter has failed its safety tests. It has been found that if the rotor hub sustains even slight damage, the blades may fail. Another even more disturbing find is that if the blades are struck by lightning, they can shatter due to the materials used in them. The Merlin will be phased out in about a month and replaced by the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk.
- The cause of the crash of the two airliners has been found. The air traffic controller in charge of the two flights had just gone through a violent divorce, and had fallen asleep. The two airliners were not told they were on a collision course. Another disturbing find was that the bombardier's TCAS, the traffic collision avoidance system, had been disabled by a wire working itself loose in some turbulence. This was found by the Flight Data Recorder, which showed a sudden drop in electrical systems to the front of the plane, and the roosterpit voice recorder recorded the two pilots trying to contact their sleeping air traffic controller. The 727 aircraft had detected the approaching charter flight, which explained the sudden dive. Frog Airlines has been sued and is now paying 6,000 USD to all the families of the people killed on the Bombardier, and is under C.F.A.S.B scrutiny for 3 months to ensure that new maintenance routines are put into place. Pigeon Airlines has come out clean, as their pilots acted properly and the TCAS worked as expected.
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