In Brief

The pilot was killed Tuesday morning when a BD-5J microjet crashed near Ocean City, Md., while flying in military radar tests. Another BD-5J pilot died in a crash two weeks ago in Ottawa… The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in North Carolina in 2004, killing a sheriff on board, has been charged with involuntary […]

Pensions: Delta Air Lines has given formal notice that it intends to wind up its pilots’ pension program as part of its plan to emerge from bankruptcy. The pilots have swallowed the bitter pill without protest, acknowledging the unsustainable pension plan is threatening the airline as a whole… Alaska air traffic controllers say FAA Administrator […]

The NTSB says commercial pilots need training to detect snow and ice on the airframe and has asked the FAA to come up with an appropriate program. The recommendation grew out of the NTSB’s investigation of the Challenger crash that killed three people in Colorado in 2004, including the son of NBC Sports executive Dick […]

The Staggerwing Museum in Tullahoma, Tenn., broke ground last weekend for the next phase of its Bonanza-Baron Museum project… The NTSB is investigating an uncontained engine failure on an American Airlines 767 that happened June 2 at Los Angeles International Airport. The engine broke during a ground maintenance test run, and parts were scattered as […]

British authorities say flying a 747 on three engines over the polar icecap was the right thing to do and now they’re going to try to convince the FAA of that. As AVweb reported, the British Airways flight from LAX to London lost an engine after takeoff and kept going until running short of fuel […]

Cirrus owners raised $105,000 to support the Red Tail Project during their fourth annual migration to the factory in Duluth, Minn. The project aims to bring the story of the Tuskegee Airmen to school kids across the U.S…. Air traffic controllers in Opa Locka, Fla., must climb a ladder 33 feet to go to work […]

Mooney has introduced what it says is the fastest normally aspirated production single. The Ovation 3 has a 310-hp Continental I0-550 and will cruise at 197 knots, about nine knots faster than the Ovation 2, with its 280-hp engine… There’s an aviation industry brewing in a former coffee roasting plant in Alixco, Mexico. A group […]

The fuselage of an F-104 Starfighter jet once flown by Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield has been mated with a rocket engine and will be used to try to break the land speed record some time next year… Eclipse Aviation said Tuesday it’s definitely “on track“ for FAA certification by the end of June, and […]

Greek authorities have concluded that human error caused the crash of a Helios Airlines flight near Athens last year. According to a report leaked to the Greek media, technicians forgot to switch the pressurization system on the Boeing 737 back to automatic after a system check and the pilots failed to notice. Everyone on board, […]

Two F-16s, one from Greece and one from Turkey, collided in midair above the Aegean Sea on Tuesday. The Turkish pilot was rescued, but the Greek pilot has not been found… The FAA says controllers would be out $700 million if they retire early, as NATCA has warned they will if the FAA’s offer is […]