Aviation News

The FAA revealed today (Jan. 14) that a Delta Air Lines flight and a United Airlines flight busted separation requirements on approach to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (KPHX) in Arizona, midday on Jan. 11. The Delta Airbus A330-300 and the United Boeing 737-900ER were inbound from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (KDTW) and San Francisco […]

Reports are emerging from a Gulfstream G550 flight crew of an unidentified lighted object in the sky above them. On a Dec. 23 night flight to Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, the business jet was cruising near the Bahamas at Flight Level 430 or FL 450 when air traffic control asked them to look for “a […]

The pilot of a Citabria survived its crash and entanglement with high tension power lines but later died when he fell 150 feet from the suspended aircraft. The mishap occurred Sunday afternoon about 2:30 p.m. local time near Batesville, Arkansas. Not many details were released by local authorities but White River Now reported the pilot […]

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board says pilots who routinely wear parachutes should also regularly skydive. The TSB has issued an Air Transportation Safety Investigation Report into a fatal gliding accident near Calgary in May of 2024 in which the pilot, Kerry Stevenson of Calgary, who had more than 30 years of experience, bailed out of his […]

Police have arrested three people involved in two drone incidents related to aerial firefighting in Los Angeles. L.A. County Sheriff’s department did not release details of the circumstances of their arrest or whether either of the incidents involved the collision of a drone with a CL-415 waterbomber late last week. The specific charges have also […]

Aviation groups are lining up to urge the Senate to confirm Sean Duffy as the next Transportation Secretary. Duffy is among 14 of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for the most high-profile portfolios to be grilled by senators this week and will take the hot seat in front of the Senate Committee on Commerce Science and […]

California aviation fuel distributors say there are too many gaps in accessibility and too many questions about GAMI G100UL’s suitability for some aircraft to make it the only high-octane choice at California airports. In their response to a motion by the Center for Environmental Health for the California Superior Court to enforce the terms of […]

South Korean officials are investigating how the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on Jeju Airlines Flight 2216 stopped recording four minutes before the 737-800 smashed into a concrete antenna structure at Muan Airport two weeks ago. The prominent theory being floated so far is that the aircraft somehow lost all electrical power, which is […]

The part needed to fix a CL-415 water bomber damaged in a drone strike in Los Angeles on Thursday was on its way to L.A. on Friday. The aircraft could be back in the air as soon as Monday. DeHavilland Canada, which holds the type certificate for the so-called Super Scooper and supports the worldwide […]

More than 200 passengers and crew used the emergency exits and slides to evacuate a Delta Boeing 757 that aborted a takeoff at Atlanta on Friday morning. An engine caught fire while the plane was on the roll on an uncharacteristically snowy runway, and the pilots hit the brakes. The aircraft had reached about 85 […]