Happy friendship day.

"We knew we had to get down quickly," the passenger wrote. But did they? The video shows a prop spinning normally, a runway ahead, and then a collision. "Fortunately our pilot with 20+ years experience was able to set us down." fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

Boeing says the switches work fine if you use the correct technique. The Federation of Indian Pilots says there's an electrical failure mode. The UK CAA wants to know why Air India flew after two switch failures. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ai...

Well, I did not have "presidential threat to ground 5,000+ aircraft" on my 2026 bingo card. fearoflanding.com/crazy/trump-...

I don't know if I'm proud or embarrassed that this is the first job in a while that apparently I'm specifically qualified to do.

Someone left a 1-star review for Goose Bay Airport because the pilot "blocked my access to oxygen". Another gave credit for "hot stewardess susie q for good sandwiches." This is what happens when 127 people review an airport in Labrador. fearoflanding.com/history/four...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

"We have high RPM now and will try to make it to the shore." They didn't make it to the shore. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

All eight main landing gear tyres exploded on impact. That doesn't just happen. fearoflanding.com/accidents/la...

Five aircraft, three days, Buenos Aires to El Paso via Tallinn. I looked up each registration between connections and found their histories. fearoflanding.com/flying/five-...

Evening walk

Crushing hard on Buenos Aires.

Ecoparque Buenos Aires is amazing and I how I can spend more time there

Some men build bridges. Some insist there was never a bridge to begin with. Mine had a taxi and very strong opinions. open.substack.com/pub/sylviawr...

"I'm unable to move forward." The Delta captain sat in the deicing area, engines running, refusing to taxi. He was following the airport's own safety rules. Minutes later, his decision would be vindicated in the worst possible way. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

Sitting at the river's edge instead of working.

The girl who used to be my sister is the featured short SF this week in Nature! Vridia vanished into the cross-chain relays. Now her sister is following her trail, armed with nothing but an analog notebook and their grandfather's cryptic warning: "Ink never forks." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ATP fired him for pulling circuit breakers and cutting mixture during a student's flight. Eagle Aviation took him on immediately without checking his story. Six weeks later he was dead. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

The Trouble with Tranquility open.substack.com/pub/sylviawr...

Something not quite right about the crow outside of my window this morning.

Did I mention that I sold a story to Nature? Started writing flash again this year and glad to feel like I still have skillz. :D

I still feel like someone in the marketing department at JAL might not have approved this page on the JAL website: www.jal.com/en/safety/ce... "Accidents JAL has caused other than Flight 123 Accident"

A student pilot's training flight turned into an unplanned hangar inspection after their instructor interpreted "best speed across the runway" differently than air traffic control intended. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

Might have made a bit much.

Dinner is in progress

I wrote about the flight here: fearoflanding.com/accidents/i-...

The Horizon Air pilot who tried to shut down engines mid-flight has pleaded guilty to reduced charges. Joseph Emerson was experiencing his first psychotic break and believed he was dreaming when he pulled those fire handles. fearoflanding.com/accidents/i-...

Operational insight from former RAF Deputy Commander Greg Bagwell on combat air patrol scheduling. fearoflanding.com/demystifying... (formerly @gregbagwell.bsky.social but I don't think he's here anymore)

Thrilled to have been selected as one of the journalists in the Devconnect Scholars Program. I’ll be working with a 95-person cohort over the next two months, then heading to Buenos Aires for Devconnect 2025 to report on the event.

Gary waiting patiently for me to go inside so he can ask me to go outside and feed him. Astra, on the left, looking at me, wonders why I don't stop this silliness and just give them the bag.

This week on Fear of Landing: a pilot chute caught in the slipstream during climb at Vannes led to a sky diver being dragged out of the aircraft. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

This week on Fear of Landing: a pilot chute caught in the slipstream during climb at Vannes led to a sky diver being dragged out of the aircraft. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

Looking at Fear of Landing possibilities, where I always leave a spark, just a quick few words to remind me why I added it in the first place This one just says "traumatic af".

I love Tolkien because he uses clever yet relatable similes which are in no way just repeating pretty much the exact scenario they're describing:

Romeo was a rally truck with flames on his side. Juliet was a candy-apple red Ford Ranger. It was devastating. sylviawrigley.substack.com/p/i-went-to-...

A US Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter was conducting routine night training over Norfolk when everything changed in three seconds. The crew had followed all procedures. The bird activity maps were current. Yet four lives were lost and a $40 million aircraft destroyed. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

Gary nagging me for attention while I'm trying to work.

An An-24 executes a go-around at a remote Russian airport and disappears. No distress call, no system failures obvious before impact. fearoflanding.com/accidents/an...

Going overnight camping. The bus passed me on the way to the stop and saw me with all my stuff and pulled over and scowled at me to get in. 😅😬

Sunny today, so I spent an hour or two wandering around the peninsula. Unfortunately so did all the mosquitoes and horseflies.

I'm mad at Estonia. I was offered carrot cake and it *tasted like carrot*.

Ferry flights aren't supposed to carry passengers, especially not children. But that's exactly what happened when Saurya Airlines' CRJ-200 crashed at Kathmandu after just 13 seconds airborne. The investigation findings are hard to believe. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

The Air India Flight 171 preliminary report reveals that the fuel cutoff switches didn't fail - someone moved them. The cockpit voice recording tells us what happened next, but not who or why. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

B stands for Bedridden and B-52s. fearoflanding.com/fun-stuff/ho...

This is what happens when you let a writer into a developer convention. open.substack.com/pub/sylviawr...

A King Air ended up perched on a hangar roof in Kansas after an engine failure on approach. The pilot and passenger climbed out and walked down a fire ladder with only minor injuries. Butler Avionics couldn't have asked for a more convenient delivery. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ki...

Yesterday's crash in Ahmedabad broke the aircraft's previously unblemished safety record. Some people think they know the answer already, but grainy videos rarely tell the complete story. A look at the known facts and current theories on Fear of Landing: fearoflanding.com/accidents/dr...

When a Citation 560 stopped responding to air traffic control during climb, it continued flying on autopilot for nearly two hours before crashing in Virginia. The final NTSB report reveals maintenance decisions that made this outcome inevitable. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ac...

An Instagram post from the right seat, a broken weather system, and a set of power lines marked on the approach plate. The pieces of yesterday's Citation II crash in San Diego tell a complex story of decisions made in difficult conditions. fearoflanding.com/accidents/ci...

Gary would like you to know that he has a very difficult life but he is persevering. (I refused to bring him a third breakfast)