Aviation News

The federal government has upheld a ban on large aircraft at Teterboro Airport. The appropriations bill signed by President Bush last week contained a clause limiting the airports use to aircraft weighing 100,000 pounds or less. Local activists were elated, owners of Boeing Business Jets (170,000 pounds) were not… The FAA is dragging its feet […]

An underwater camera on Monday found the wreck of a Cessna Caravan that crashed in Lake Erie on Jan. 17; all 10 people on board were killed… The California skydiving company whose new PAC 750XL airplane was lost on a ferry flight from New Zealand has ordered a new aircraft from the same manufacturer, Pacific […]

A Bonanza crashed Thursday evening into a Farmington, N.M., police station, about 400 yards from the runway at Four Corners Regional Airport. The pilot suffered serious injuries, but nobody in the building was hurt. Ten inmates were transferred to another facility. The pilot, a student in Mesa Airlines’ training program, had been cleared to land. […]

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… […]