Aviation News

Spirit Airlines pilots and their union have raised concerns over the airline’s decision to issue furlough notices to pilots while simultaneously approving salary increases for several top executives. In a July 1 8-K filing, the carrier announced pay raises for four of its C-suite executives and its CEO. At the same time, 200 pilots received […]

Plans to break ground on a new Las Vegas airport are progressing following the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) recent approval of the project. Las Vegas Executive Airport will be located some 30 miles southwest of Harry Reid International Airport and will accommodate single-engine, multi-engine and rotorcraft operations. Clark County Commissioners unanimously approved runway construction for […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating an incident involving a Southwest flight that took off from a temporarily closed runway last week. The incident occurred in the early hours of June 25 at Portland International Jetport (KPWM), when a Southwest Boeing 737 took off on Runway 29 at […]

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At least 30 people aboard an Air Europa Boeing 787-9 were injured when the plane hit turbulence over Brazil on Monday. The aircraft was on its way from Madrid to Montevideo, Uruguay, but diverted after the unbelted occupants hit the ceiling in an abrupt altitude change. One man went through a ceiling panel and had […]

The well-known husband-and-wife aircraft restoration team of Dave and Jeanne Allen died in the crash of their pristine 1934 Waco YKC in a Kansas field last week. No witnesses to the crash have come forward so the FAA is saying the plane crashed under “unknown circumstances.” The Allens lived in Elbert, Colorado, and it’s not […]

An NTSB Preliminary Report suggests former astronaut Bill Anders was doing a Split S in his Beech A45 Mentor but ran out of altitude and crashed into the ocean off Deer Harbor, Washington, on June 7. The NTSB does not use that term, but its narrative of cellphone video of the 90-year-old Anders’ final moments […]

American Airlines issued a news release Tuesday saying it has signed a conditional purchase agreement to buy 100 hydrogen-electric engines from ZeroAvia with a goal of powering a fleet of regional airliners, possibly retrofitted CRJ700s, with them. The ZeroAvia system uses hydrogen in fuel cells to create electricity that runs conventional electric motors turning propellers. […]

Chinese lithium battery company Contemporary Amperex Technology Company Limited (CATL) says it will have a 16,000-pound electric aircraft with a range of up to 1500 nautical miles flying by 2028. NewAtlas reported the company, which supplies most of the electric car batteries in the world, said it flew an 8,000-pound plane powered by its so-called “condensed […]

Five members of a Georgia family, including two children, died in the crash of their Piper PA-46 Malibu in upstate New York on Sunday. The aircraft was headed from Oneonta, New York, to Atlanta with a fuel stop in West Virginia when it went down in a rural area in Delaware County just after 2 […]