High-time ATPs and IFR rated commercial pilots will likely be the first to train as eVTOL line pilots as the industry moves toward revenue service under a broad set of rules and regulations announced Tuesday. With a mockup of Joby’s multi-copter tilt wing air taxi as a backdrop, FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker signed into effect […]
Air Canada has been fined $125,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation for multiple incursions to Iraqi airspace. The flights were operated by Air Canada under its code share with United Airlines while carrying U.S. citizens, so it was therefore subject to the FAA ban on U.S. overflights of the country. The overflights occurred on […]
The Department of Justice has taken the rare step of issuing a press release on the complex legal future that awaits a California man who told his fellow passengers “This plane is going down” before going on a violent in-flight rampage last week. The DOJ said Charles Angel Salva, 30, is facing charges of interference […]
The U.S. government has siezed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s Dassault 900 EX for alleged sanctions violations. The big business jet, which Maduro reportedly used as his version of Air Force One, was flown by American officials from the Dominican Republic to Fort Lauderdale. “This morning, the Justice Department seized an aircraft we allege was illegally […]
AOPA is reporting that the owner of a flight school that went bankrupt while allegedly holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in student deposits has struck a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to tax evasion. Kevin Rylchik is facing a prison term but by pleading guilty he avoided indictment on a laundry list […]
A Montana woman has pleaded guilty to lunging at the controls of Cape Air Cessna 402 just as it was landing at Havre Airport on March 21, 2023, and very nearly causing it to crash. Tracy Lynn Eagleman, 36, of Havre will be sentenced in December and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in […]
A flight instructor who flew students for almost a year after surrendering his certificate has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the crash that killed one of those students. ABC News is reporting Phillip Everton McPherson II, 36, of Haddon Township, New Jersey, is facing the charge after the Piper Arrow he and the 49-year-old […]
The City of Boulder, Colorado, is taking the FAA to court saying a clause in its grant obligations to the agency is constitutional overreach. The city has already stopped accepting grants with an eye to closing the airport in 2040 when the last obligations reach their 20-year expiry, but the FAA says it may never […]
A self-proclaimed “free citizen” is facing federal charges in Alaska for “nearly causing a midair collision” a year ago according to the FAA. William Brian Marsan is under federal indictment and was jailed July 18 after he allegedly taxied his Piper Cherokee to the wrong end of the active runway at Warren “Bud” Woods Palmer […]
United Airlines says it has apologized to a passenger and suspended the flight attendant at the bottom of the mess. The passenger said he tapped a flight attendant lightly on the arm to get his attention and the FA accused him of hitting him. It’s not clear what influence the fact that the passenger was […]
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