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About 100 people, including Sultan Ibrahim Muhammadu Maccido, the head of all Nigerian Muslims died when an ADC Airlines aircraft (type unknown) crashed shortly after takeoff from Nigeria’s capital of Abuja on Sunday… Seattle-area officials are pondering a deal to trade Boeing Field for a railway right of way that would open up 47 miles […]

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Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from the B737 that crashed in Brazil last month after a midair with a Legacy jet. The two American pilots are still not allowed to leave the country, pending further investigation… PartsBase, an online e-commerce Web site for aviation, aerospace and defense, said Tuesday it will run live […]

Garmin is adding Jeppesen charts, National Aeronautical Charting Office departure, arrival and approach plates, and taxi directions for 700 airports to its G1000 glass cockpit. The databases, called FliteCharts, ChartView and SafeTaxi, will make their debut in the Cessna Citation Mustang… CH2000s in harm’s way? The first two of eight SAMA CH2000 aircraft based on […]

James Fallows, reporter for The Atlantic and a Cirrus pilot, offers comment and analysis into the recent fatal crash in New York. Also, The New York Times provides a detailed graphic of the flight path… The continuing investigation into last month’s midair over Brazil is raising questions about air traffic control procedures… A small Fort […]

Pilots of a Legacy business jet that collided with a Boeing 737 over Brazil two weeks ago say the aircraft’s transponder was working at the time of the crash. Brazilian authorities are claiming the transponder signal disappeared just before the crash… One of the Groen Brothers, Jay, has died of cancer. Groen, who with his […]

More than 70 TBM aircraft and 200 people attended the annual TBM Owners and Pilots Association convention in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, last week. Attendees included a French Army Aviation transport crew who made a 24-hour flight from France… The union representing Northwest pilots claims flights have been cancelled because the airline has furloughed too many […]

Eleven pilots have been chosen to represent the U.S. at the World Aerobatic Championships next year. Out of 97 competitors, the winners were: Debby Rihn-Harvey, from La Porte, Texas; Michael Racy, of Tucson, Ariz.; David Martin, from Graford, Texas; Melissa Andrzejewski, from Auburn, Calif.; Robert Armstrong, from Athens, Ga.; Chandy Clanton, from Lincoln, Neb.; Dan […]

A supervisor at the Denver Center had inappropriate relations with female subordinates, including having sex while at work, and has not been disciplined, according to local news reports… The FAA last week chose Lockheed Martin to help introduce unmanned aerial vehicles into the National Airspace System… UP Aerospace has recovered the rocket and payloads that […]

A blimp landed in trees near Boston after a rudder failed. The pilot tried to land on a nearby beach but the wind was too strong… Scottsdale, Ariz., has banned helicopters from taking off or landing in residential areas… The first private rocket to launch at New Mexico’s spaceport took off Monday but failed to […]