Aviation News

The NTSB blamed the crash landing of a FedEx MD-10 on poor technique by the first officer and inadequate oversight by the captain… Some United flight attendants are protesting pension cuts with the (semi) naked truth in a calendar called “Stewardesses Stripped (Of Their Pension?) “… The National Aeronautic Association has launched a redesigned and […]

One of Britain’s top aviation safety awards went to a glider pilot who landed his aircraft to give first aid to a fellow competitor in a gliding contest who had crashed. Neil Goudie first called for help then landed and gave first aid to the badly injured pilot, who was subsequently picked up by medevac… […]

The Eclipse 500 has taken another step up from that elusive $1 million sticker price. The company announced an across-the-board hike raising the price of the very light jet to $1.295 million in June 2000 dollars. (We don’t know how to do the math either.) When it was introduced in 1999, the price was below […]

All 15 people aboard died Saturday when a Fairchild Metroliner crashed during a rainstorm in a remote area of Australia. It was the country’s worst civilian aviation accident since 1968… Air Midwest and its maintenance provider, Vertex Aerospace, publicly apologized on Friday for mistakes that contributed to the crash of a Beech 1900 in Charlotte, […]

A Fairchild Metroliner SA227-AC apparently caught fire and exploded while flying at 20,000 feet above New Zealand on Tuesday. The airplane was carrying mail; the two pilots on board died… EAA Southwest Regional Fly-In coming May 12-15 at a new location, Hondo Airport, near San Antonio, Texas… New 757s are no more, but companies are […]

A Nigerian-born flight student who fled the U.S. after being refused advanced training by a Georgia instructor has been arrested near London for allegedly obtaining a false passport. Zayad “Christopher” Hajaig was arrested at his home in Essex. Hajaig’s altercation with flight instructor Jim Archer earlier this month sparked a terror alert. Hajaig, whose U.S. […]

The future of a Fort Wayne, Ind., airport seems a little brighter after the local airport authority voted to keep the facility open “indefinitely.” Still, anti-airport forces found encouragement in the descriptions noting that indefinitely doesn’t mean “in perpetuity”… One of the world’s best hang gliding competitors died in a competition in Florida last week. […]

Florida skydiver Albert “Gus” Wing III, 50, died after he collided with the wing of the Twin Otter that he jumped from Saturday morning, severing both legs at the knees. After the impact at 600 feet, Wing controlled his parachute to a landing but died from his injuries later at Halifax Medical Center. The aircraft […]

The tower at Tampa (Fla.) International Airport lost radio contact with pilots for about 20 minutes on Saturday. Communications were maintained with backup handheld radios… The FAA is paying $9 million for soundproofing and air conditioning in three schools near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport… New globally wired weather data could help save up to $1.7 […]

There were no injuries but a T-6 was damaged at Sun ‘n Fun Thursday when it ran off a taxiway. Police said pilot and owner Keith Moser, of Huntington, Ind., was trying to make a sharp left turn when the plane went off the pavement. The left wing was substantially damaged… The administrative machinations that […]