The Aviation Herald

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The Aviation Herald
Incidents and News in Aviation
Aviation Safety News
languages English
operator NOMIS SOFT Datenverarbeitung GmbH
Registration No
On-line 05/12/2008 (currently active)
https://avherald.com/

The Aviation Herald is an English-language website that publishes security-related events and news in the field of commercial aviation .

history

The website was launched on May 12, 2008 as a one-man project by operator Simon Hradecky, an Austrian aviation safety expert. It attracted over 1,000 readers in the first month; eight months later it was over 100,000; after 10 years the website had around 3.5 million visitors a month. The beginnings of Hradecky's research go back to 1995, so that reports on events up to June 19, 1999 can be called up on the website despite its start in 2008. So far, over 25,000 individual messages have been published (as of January 10, 2020).

description

The Aviation Herald records incidents that occur on commercial flights (aircraft with 19 or more seats). According to the company's own information, the published news is based on its own research and is only recorded if reports are available from at least two unofficial, independent sources or one official source.

The website, visually designed in a no-frills style, lists the latest aviation events and news in headlines , all of which fall into one of the categories

  • Crash
  • Accident
  • Incident
  • News (message)
  • Report

are assigned and can be filtered accordingly by the visitor. Behind the headlines are articles that will be kept up-to-date. For example, years after an aircraft accident, the final reports of the associated aircraft accident investigations are incorporated into the original article. Accordingly, a further function enables initial reports ("Occurrence") or updated reports ("Update") to be displayed.

Since mid-2015, the Aviation Herald has also published videos of selected events on YouTube , which so far (as of February 2018) have received over 2.3 million hits.

Appreciations and reception

  • In an article by CNN , the operator of the website, Simon Hradecky, is referred to as an "aviation geek".
  • Der Spiegel describes the Aviation Herald as a "globally recognized online portal on aviation incidents". The Swiss Tages-Anzeiger rates the website as a “renowned flight safety web service”. The international news agency Reuters classifies the Aviation Herald as "respected independent website monitoring air accidents". The German-language Flug Revue regards the Aviation Herald as a "very serious flight safety website". The New Zealand Herald regards the Aviation Herald as a "highly respected website".
  • International, supraregional media occasionally take over reports from the website or refer to them.

Attacks

After reports by the Aviation Herald about a risky landing approach of a Ryanair aircraft at Allgäu Airport Memmingen in September 2012, the airline put legal pressure on the website in December 2012. The German Federal Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau nevertheless published an interim report on the incident in November 2012. According to the website, Ryanair withdrew the allegations a few days later.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint according to §5 Austrian E-Commerce Law. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Simon Hradecky: 10 years The Aviation Herald. thoughts, a brief look into the history and a brief outlook. The Aviation Herald, May 12, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Rainer Leurs: Searching for a missing Boeing: “These are things I don't understand”. Der Spiegel , March 28, 2014, accessed April 13, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b Frequently Asked Questions. The Aviation Herald, accessed March 27, 2014 .
  5. ^ The Aviation Herald: Videos. In: YouTube . Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The Aviation Herald: Channel Info. In: YouTube . Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Katia Hetter: These people really love to fly. CNN , June 10, 2012, accessed March 27, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Claudio Habicht: Has flying become more dangerous? Tages-Anzeiger , July 1, 2009, archived from the original on July 4, 2009 ; accessed on March 27, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Noah Browning: Fire guts Emirates jet after hard landing; one firefighter dies. Reuters , August 3, 2016, accessed November 29, 2016 .
  10. ↑ A380 wake turbulence: German business jet has to make an emergency landing. In: Flight Revue . March 8, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ EgyptAir crash: pilot radioed about emergency descent. In: The New Zealand Herald . May 23, 2016, accessed on August 23, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Air Berlin drama in Phuket: Pilots made an emergency landing without a computer and ABS. Focus , December 30, 2012, accessed March 28, 2014 .
  13. ^ To 'unprecedented missing aircraft mystery'. Washington Post , March 10, 2014, accessed March 28, 2014 .
  14. ↑ The Aviation Herald: Wizzair Ukraine flight suffers tail strike on takeoff. Kyiv Post , April 28, 2012, accessed March 28, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Thomas Fuller, Michael Schwirtz: Thailand to Hold Crew That Was Transporting Weapons. The New York Times , December 14, 2009, accessed October 12, 2014 .
  16. ↑ US domestic flight: Baggage worker is forgotten in the hold - and spends the flight there. In: Stern . Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
  17. ^ Hard landing in a storm: Tower warned. In: orf.at . November 3, 2017, accessed February 13, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Maria Marquart: Low-cost airlines: Ryanair plane narrowly escaped the crash. In: Spiegel Online . December 8, 2012, accessed March 27, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Incident: Ryanair B738 at Memmingen on Sep 23rd 2012, descended below minimum safe height. The Aviation Herald, December 10, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2014 (in English, article was first published on December 3, 2012).
  20. ^ Niko Steeb: Allgäu-Airport: "Serious incident": Ryanair plane came dangerously close to the ground. Augsburger Allgemeine , December 9, 2012, archived from the original on April 14, 2014 ; accessed on March 27, 2014 .
  21. ↑ Aviation safety: Low-cost airlines are putting "Aviation Herald" under pressure. In: aero.de. December 7, 2012, accessed March 27, 2014 .
  22. ↑ Interim Report BFU EX002-12 (Serious incident from September 23, 2012). (PDF; 1.04 MB) Federal Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau , November 2012, accessed on March 27, 2014 (English, PDF version from December 10, 2012).
  23. ↑ The Aviation Herald NO LONGER under legal threat by Ryanair. The Aviation Herald, December 10, 2012, accessed March 27, 2014 .