Aviation News

A Thai Air Force helicopter pilot was suspended for landing his aircraft in the jungle so he could pick wild mushrooms for his mother. Local villagers reported the incident after they found the abandoned aircraft… The family of a pilot missing in B.C.s rugged interior are asking for public help to find him. Ron Boychuk, […]

The new edition of the FAA’s Aviation Weather Services advisory circular is available free online in PDF format … . A 41-year-old woman who was seriously hurt when she stepped into the path of a taxiing Piper Cherokee on Sunday is recovering. She was hit in the head by a wing in Gainesville, Ga. … […]

An experienced helicopter pilot walked into the rotor of his aircraft on Friday and was killed. Harold Gene Jones, 64, left the Bell 407 running while he offloaded baggage at Morristown, Tenn. Airport and was struck in the head while walking back to the aircraft … . The comment period on new rules for aircraft […]

The crew of a US Airways flight that landed in Boston on Monday complained of headaches and nausea from an unidentified odor in the cockpit … . A 46-year-old T-38, the oldest of its kind in the U.S. Air Force fleet, landed for the last time at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday … . […]

A Greeneville, Penn. pilot died Friday when his RV-10 went down and caught fire about a mile from the local airport. Witnesses said the engine on Daniel Lloyds homebuilt didnt sound like it was running right before the crash… A pilot making his first flight in a Formula One racing plane died Friday when the […]

Able Flight‘s two newest winners of flight training scholarships for people with disabilities are Jessica Scharle of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Tyler Ryan of Walden, N.Y. … The FAA says it exceeded its goal for reducing the most serious runway incursions by 25 percent in fiscal year 2007 … EAA has worked with the FAA […]

The FAA has imposed a temporary flight restriction (TFR) within the Washington Flight Restricted Zone. The one nm diameter TFR is in effect Tuesday for the demolition of the Woodrow Wilson bridge … . Three Calgary, Alberta men died Friday when their Piper Malibu crashed in the Rocky Mountains west of Calgary in an unsuccessful […]

The bodies of an instructor and student from the University of North Dakota have been found in the wreckage of the Piper Seminole that went missing late Wednesday. Instructor Annette Klosterman, of Seattle, and 20-year-old Adam Ostapenko, a junior aviation student from Duluth, Minnesota, died in the crash about 20 miles northwest of Little Falls, […]

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association will hold a news conference today to release figures on staffing levels, which it claims are at a dangerous low … . The Department of Transportation says it wants to reduce flights into New Yorks Kennedy Airport by 20 percent next summer to ease delays. About 100 flights an […]

Seventeen whooping cranes began their ultralight-escorted migration from Wisconsin to Florida last week. The journey will take about 23 flying days but weather can extend the actual length of time it takes … . Gen. David Lee “Tex” Hill, one of the famed Flying Tigers, died Thursday at 92. Hill was played by John Wayne […]