Aviation News

American and United Airlines have agreed to cut five percent of flights (that’s 62 flights) between 1 p.m. and 8p.m. in and out of O’Hare. The Department of Transportation hopes the reduction will cut down on flight delays. Delays at O’Hare ripple through the rest of the system causing problems at other airports. O’Hare’s stated […]

All ten people aboard a Cessna 208 Caravan are feared dead after the plane crashed on a frozen Lake Erie, Saturday, in snow. The Georgian Express plane left Pelee Island with a pilot and at least eight Canadian men on board and crashed a short time later. A helicopter found the wreckage nose down on […]

A Yakovlev-40 airliner crashed Tuesday on approach to the airport in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. All 36 aboard were killed… President Bush yesterday proposed a $1 billion boost for NASA’s budget, and called for a lunar base and retirement of the aging Space Shuttle by 2010… Solo circumnavigator Gus McLeod plans to try again for the South […]

The FAA says it will allow aircraft with certain enhanced-vision systems to operate below minimums on some instrument approach procedures… The Soaring Society of America will hold its Annual Convention and Air Sports Expo Feb. 5-7 in Atlanta, Ga…. The remains of two U.S. Navy pilots, who died when their A-6A attack jet was shot […]

Charges have been dropped against a medevac pilot ticketed last week in Stamford, Conn. William Pope was cited by police for contravening a local ordinance banning helicopters from landing in the city. He was picking up a premature baby for transport to an intensive care unit in New York… A fund created to help the […]

The body of a man was found in the wheel well of a British Airways plane after a flight from London to Kennedy Airport. The unidentified man in his 30s was the second dead stowaway to be found in less than a week at Kennedy. Last week, a man in his 20s was discovered in […]

A new study supports theories that long airplane flights can cause deep-vein thrombosis (DVT), a potentially fatal condition… A Piper J3 and a Schleicher Ask-21 glider collided in midair above the Arizona desert on Sunday; all four aboard the two aircraft were killed… Also on Sunday, two gliders collided in South Africa; one pilot died… […]

FAA field offices that have gone above and beyond in customer service to aviation businesses can be nominated for the National Air Transportation Association’s Customer Service Excellence Award. Offices will be judged on communication, regulatory compliance advising, regulation application and timeliness in responding to regulated party needs. Only NATA members can nominate and the deadline […]

The FAA “Compensation or Hire” rule prohibits a pilot who is not a commercial pilot — and not operating under the FAA’s commercial operating rules — from carrying passengers or cargo for compensation or hire. In other words, if compensation is paid for a flight carrying passengers or cargo, the flight must be conducted under […]

A Virgin Atlantic pilot faces alcohol-related charges after he was prevented from flying a Boeing 747 and 383 passengers from Washington to London on Friday. Capt. Richard Harwell, 55, a U.S. citizen living in Britain, has been charged with attempting to operate an aircraft under the influence of alcohol. TSA screeners allegedly smelled booze on […]