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Air New Zealand says it will have to cancel 25 regional flights so tower staff at five small airports can comply with new labor rules. The rules require lunch breaks to be scheduled, rather than allowing staff to take them as workload permits. The result is the five towers will have to be closed twice […]

An Airbus A320 crashed into the sea off southwest France, Thursday, at about 1600 GMT, killing at least two, according to the first reports, and leaving five of the seven aboard so far unaccounted for and presumed dead. The jet “made an attempt to climb but fell back down again immediately,” one witness told local […]

Poisonous seeds found in the nut of the jatropha plant contain 30% – 40% oil that may be refined at a significantly lower cost than crude oil and will soon supplement Jet-A to feed one of four engines powering an Air New Zealand 747 — test flights are currently scheduled for November. Boeing, Air New […]

(… So far.) An Air New Zealand pilot who is prone to fainting appears to be winning a legal battle to regain his flying privileges. Geoff Paterson, 52, of Auckland, a Boeing 767 captain, has fainted three times since 1990, although it’s not clear whether he was flying at the time. After the first two […]

The FAA gets Orville and the Department of Transportation gets Wilbur in the naming of their respective buildings to honor the Wright brothers’ achievments. The ceremony was held Wednesday to rename the FAA building the Orville Wright Federal Building and the DOT headquarters the Wilbur Wright Federal Building. Previously they were known as 10-A and […]

French authorities may demolish the new terminal at Charles de Gaulle Airport after a portion of the futuristic structure collapsed, killing four people. A 100-foot section of the roof fell in Sunday and more cracking noises were heard on Monday… The new Eurofighter Typhoon is riddled with problems and should only be flown by two […]

This article was first published in World AirNews of South Africa. A small piece of Antarctic history was made on Qantas Flight 2915 to Antarctica earlier this year. It was the first full, corporate charter ever to the planet’s last great wilderness — the honor belonging to the Australian subsidiary of South African supermarket suppliers […]

Just when we thought we had a handle on all the possible threats to the safe operation of our flights, along comes another facet of madness: air rage to the Nth degree. Cases of enraged passengers crashing through the cockpit door, assaulting pilots and trying to interfere with control of the airplane had been increasing […]

A couple of years ago one of my clients flew throughoutAustralia on something called the GOANA air safari andhas been raving about it ever since. So in April of the year 2000 when I got theopportunity to go on the same trip, I jumped at the chance. When I mentioned that I was goingto do […]

Inwriting this article, I am reminded of the often-used patter by younginstructors in which the student is told to keep an eye on the enginetemperatures and pressures during the takeoff. The reality is that oil andcylinder head temperatures are slow to indicate trouble, while oil pressureneedles can flicker and vary by small amounts depending on […]