Aircraft Recovery-Exciting Times, Trends, Innovations & Developments

Aircraft recovery is generally associated with situations that present many challenges to airlines and airport operators and disrupt normal operations. Detailed planning and preparation, which are not simple, are involved in aircraft recovery. Since no airline or airport operator is immune to disabled aircraft and the challenges they present, the author examines an exciting time of trends, innovations, and developments within the field. Recovery efforts after the Miracle on the Hudson landing of a US Airways A-320, a A-340 overrun in Quito, and of a Boeing 777 in London Heathrow are applications relevant to the article.