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A judge granted United Air Lines approval to move out of bankruptcy protection on Friday. Although United is on schedule to make the move Feb. 1, it might take some time for that relatively good news to translate to smiles on the faces of rank and file workers. After laying off 25,000 workers, cutting pay […]

Nah, not really, but it sort of seems that way to CFI Kevin Morris. Morris, a Shreveport, La., flight instructor, got quite a scare last week — he called it the most intense few moments in his flying career — when the Cessna 150 he was in struck a kite string just after takeoff from […]

An MD-82 that crashed in Venezuela last August, killing 160, may have been behaving just the way Boeing had warned it might in a 2002 service bulletin. The bulletin warned that the autopilot might reduce engine power too much after a rapid climb, allowing airspeed to bleed off to the point of a stall. Pilots […]

The pilot of a Piper Malibu Mirage says he was “just trying to merge with traffic” when he belly-landed his plane on a highway in Florida last Friday. And he almost did. The big single rear-ended a Jeep carrying two adults and three children, pushing it over a median and into the oncoming lanes. There […]

It’s been awhile since a 9-to-14-passenger utility twin turboprop was certified and the next one may come from the Czech Republic. Evektor hopes the PT-6A-21-powered E-55 Outback will fill a vacuum left by 30- to 50-year-old aircraft that are nearing the end of their service lives. The company, which produced 110 planes in 2005 but […]

Monday, this newsletter will have a new, more streamlined look – and a slightly different name. AVflash is being rechristened AVwebFlash. The new name will tie us more closely to our parent site (www.AVweb.com) and distinguish us from our sister publication, AVwebBiz (formerly known as Business AVflash). Beneath our new masthead, you’ll find the same […]

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A Hawaiian pilot is facing a string of criminal charges, including manslaughter, in the crash of his sightseeing helicopter off Kauai last September. Glen Lampton, the flight’s pilot, was one of three who survived the crash a few hundred yards off Ke’e Beach, near Ha’ena. Three other passengers died. Lampton was to be arraigned Tuesday […]