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Accident investigators think icing of Pitot tubes used to determine aircraft air speed might have caused the crash of Air France flight 447 on 31 May 2009. Although journalists and others have talked ...

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Investigators have determined that an Antonov An-124 aborted its take-off run from Leipzig, after protective covers were inadvertently left on the pitot-static tubes. The Antonov Airlines aircraft was ...

An Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation into an airspeed indication failure during the take-off of a Malaysia Airlines A330-300 has led to several safety changes. The incident took ...

C&L Aerospace, a division of C&L Aviation Group, has signed an agreement with CSI to serve as a distributor for Saab 340 Pitot Static Tubes that have been overhauled to like-new-factory specs.