In Brief

A Columbia 400 impacted a mountain ridge Monday around noon, 50 miles east of its departure airport, San Diego’s Gillespie field. The aircraft was bound for Scottsdale. The event may mark the first fatal crash of a Columbia aircraft. Three people plus one dog aboard the aircraft were killed. The aircraft’s emergency beacon was not […]

A C172L and a Lancair 235 collided Friday over Ohio, killing four. The aircraft made contact at approximately 2:06 p.m. some 20 miles east of Akron-Canton airport, according to a release by the Ohio State Highway Patrol… Southwest Airlines and Alaska Airlines have been turned down in their bids to move to Seattle’s Boeing Field […]

Eric and Keith Hayden built a Wright Brothers model A biplane that successfully flew 300 meters at an altitude of roughly ten feet over a runway at Narromine to launch an airshow celebration of aviation and the history of aircraft. Australian AVweb reader, Murray Feddersen, wrote to give us the details and picture. The flight […]

RedBull’s low-level aerobatic air race comes live to San Francisco, Saturday at 12:45 pm (PST) during the Fleetweek Airshow. Those who can’t make it can view the spectacle via an online webcast… NASA is offering an online ground de-icing course aimed primarily at professional pilots who make their own de-icing decisions. It covers general knowledge […]

J. Roy Shoffner, who helped recover and restore the Glacier Girl P-38, has died at age 77, in Kentucky… The FAA is checking into Alaska Air maintenance procedures, after questions were raised about jackscrew lubrication… A fired worker says the superjumbo A380 is unsafe; the builders disagree… The FAA last week gave its final OK […]

It’s apparently within FAA regulations to drive a Jeep under an airplane while a passenger tries to yank the aircraft’s stuck landing gear into place. “This is not something you see every day but there were no violations of regulations,” FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen told the Daytona Beach News. The incident occurred Sept. 16 at […]

The EAA Sport Pilot Tour will stop at Collin County Regional Airport in McKinney, Texas, about 25 miles north of Dallas, on Nov. 12. AVweb‘s story last Thursday had less precise information about the location… Construction is complete for Dulles Airport’s new tower; 25 stories tall, it will open next year… A 1,000-foot-long model of […]

A JetBlue Airbus A320 circled near LAX for about three hours burning fuel before landing with a nose-gear that had wheels turned perpendicular to the aircraft’s body. Of 146 aboard none suffered serious injury as a result of the uneventful (if spark-filled and tire-burning) landing, and millions got to see it on CNN, Fox News, […]

An unmanned aerial vehicle flew into Hurricane Ophelia last week and flew out with data from the dangerous near-surface high wind zone of the storm. Manned aircraft steer clear of that hazardous environment but the Aerosonde UAV, flying for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, completed the 10-hour mission unscathed. The goal of such flights […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association says staffing shortages are behind the increase in errors at the country’s busiest terminal radar approach control (TRACON). NATCA says there have been 18 reportable errors in the past year compared to seven in the previous year at the Southern California TRACON. In that time, the union says staffing […]