In Brief

At least one person survived the crash of New Mexico state helicopter in a snowstorm on 12,000-foot Sante Fe Baldy Mountain. The fate of the other two onboard was not known at our deadline… President Barack Obama has nominated NTSB member Deborah Hersman to fill the role of NTSB chairman… Peter Besenyei, inventor of the […]

The FAA agreed this week to pay $3.75 million to the families of three people who died in a 2005 ditching off the Florida coast. The FAA did not admit to any fault in the accident… A new glove designed for pilots features a built-in LED light for night flying… A 17-year-old private pilot made […]

AOPA has asked the FAA to postpone its recent airworthiness directive affecting more than 17,000 Cessna 150s and 152s… The new FAA funding bill mandates twice-yearly inspections of Part 145 certificated repair facilities located abroad, which has the Aircraft Electronics Association concerned… The NTSB has released a preliminary report on the Ecoflyer accident in which […]

An Indonesian C-130 crashed on the island of Java Wednesday morning with 112 people on board, 68 died… A Cessna 172 and Cessna 310 collided in midair above the ocean off Long Beach, Calif., on Monday, three people were killed… Chalkie Stobbart, of South Africa, broke a record set in 1939 for a solo round-trip […]

Air traffic controllers picketed in Memphis this week to protest a plan to split tower controllers and the radar staff… Walter Boyne, former director of the National Air & Space Museum, will give a talk about the future of aviation on May 14 for the Mid-Atlantic Pilots Association in Little Falls, N.J.; all are invited […]

Pilots planning to fly in to EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh this summer can now download the FAA Notam online… The FAA is reviewing the hours flown by Colgan Air flight crews, The Associated Press reported Wednesday; hearings are less than a week away into the fatal February crash of a Colgan Air flight… Airports in […]

Alan Edgar Bristow, founder of Bristow Helicopters, died on Sunday, at age 85… The Centers for Disease Control has released guidance for flight crews arriving from areas affected by swine flu, and information to help identify affected passengers… A plan to privatize Chicago’s Midway Airport has failed; the investors were unable to raise the money […]

An Airbus A380 will visit EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this summer, EAA said this week… NPR this week reported on the FAA problems that administrator nominee Randy Babbitt will have to cope with… Accidents in Hawaii air tour operations have decreased over the last 10 years, compared to the decade before that, the Associated Press […]

Planning to fly to Oshkosh this summer? You can place your order now for the FAA Notam and a copy will be mailed to you when it comes out next month… The Lindbergh Foundation is auctioning off rides in EAA’s Spirit of St. Louis replica, bidding is via e-mail… ABC says the FAA is checking […]

President Barack Obama has extended the FAA’s current budget for another six months, giving Congress more time to work out a new funding plan, AOPA said on Tuesday… An FAA Airworthiness Directive affecting some Piper Malibu airplanes restricts their use to VFR only until certain current limiters are checked… Some flight schools have been cut […]