Aviation News

A man who stole a motorglider and threatened to crash it into a Frankfurt bank building landed the aircraft safely Sunday after talking by phone with the brother of an astronaut killed in the Challenger space shuttle explosion. The man was arrested after he spent more than an hour circling over downtown Frankfurt, at least […]

It was a typical pre-9/11 afternoon as we approached White Plains.New York Tracon handed us off to White Plains Tower and the controllers were issuing their usual rapid-fire instructions to the arriving mass of airline, regional, business and general aviation aircraft.The frequency was so congested that most of the arriving aircraft were unable to read […]

A Lancair 320 used Interstate 20 for an emergency landing in California on Monday. Traffic was disrupted but there were no injuries. The airplane struck the top of a motorhome and then hit the median… New $4 million fuel farm, hangar space, and pilot’s lounge is coming to Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth, N.H…. Two […]

The airline business is on the rebound but there still aren’t as many people flying as before 9/11. The International Civil Aviation Organization said commercial traffic was up 2 percent over 2001. But that’s about 2 to 3 percent below 2000 levels. Spokesman Denis Chagnon said it would be 2004 before the industry returns to […]

AOPA’s First Flight pilot facility currently under construction at Kill Devil Hills, N.C., is nearing completion. The facility should be ready for the 99th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first poweredflight on December 17, 2002… United Air Lines announced it would cut another 9,000 jobs by the end of 2004 in an effort to avoid […]

Two explosions in the cargo wing of Lagos International Airport hurt eight and damaged airport buildings and a warehouse Thursday. Airport officials said they don’t know what caused the blasts but we wonder if they might spring for more firefighting equipment, now. A single pumper and hose were used to battle the huge blaze… The […]

Kris Kringle received all necessary flight certifications and clearances needed to embark on his annual gift-giving flight on Dec. 24-25. The order — signed by U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta — said that Santa Claus was “exceptionally fit, joyfully willing and uniquely able to engage in the interstate air transportation for which he has […]

The Civil Air Patrol’s 9/11 work has won it two awards. CAP, which provides search-and-rescue service in most areas, won two awards of excellence from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) for its relief efforts after Sept. 11 and for its overall emergency services operations… All bags going through O’Hare will be screened for […]

BE A PILOT reported Monday that response to its learn-to-fly program was up 6.2 percent in 2002, through early December. Response this autumn was 50 to 70 percent higher each month compared to post-9/11 months in 2001… The National Aeronautic Association presented Paul H. Poberezny, founder of the EAA, with the Wright Brothers Memorial Award […]

Five U.S. soldiers were killed in the crash of a Black Hawk helicopter in central Honduras Wednesday. The helicopter was on a night training exercise as part of its deployment to Joint Task Force Bravo, which conducts training, counter-drug and humanitarian missions in Central and South America and the Caribbean… A security sweep of Chicago […]