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An Alaska jury has determined that Cessna Caravans do not have a design flaw that led to the deaths of 10 people in a crash near Dillingham, Alaska, in 2001. The verdict came within hours of the crash of a similar aircraft near Moscow, attributed by Russian media to icing that killed eight people. In […]

The numbers game that seems to take over the big commercial air shows again dominated Dubai’s extravaganza this week. Assuming those numbers are solid, you couldn’t really call anyone a loser as Boeing and Airbus total up the billions in orders they claim to have sealed at the show. Airbus says it took 82 orders […]

Survivors of a couple of high-profile Cirrus parachute deployments resumed flying shortly after their mishaps and say they’ll keep flying Cirruses. Albert Kolk, the Canadian rancher whose SR20 parachuted to safety April 8, 2004, in the rugged Monashee Mountains of south central British Columbia, told AVweb his plane is undergoing repairs and he hopes to […]

AVmail: November 21, 2005Reader mail this week about the EZ Rocket, light guns and more.

COLUMNS CEO of the Cockpit #51: Cockpit of the ApesIf a free-enterprise economy is Darwinian and if legacy airlines are dinosaurs, what are the little mammals and what are the cockroaches? And which will survive longest? AVweb’s CEO of the Cockpit ponders this in the hypoxic cockpit of a 777 in this month’s column.

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About 2,500 Special Olympics athletes will arrive in style at the U.S. Special Olympics National Games at Iowa State University next July. A fleet of 400 privately owned Cessna Citations will fly the athletes from 35 states to the Games. All of the flight time, pilot time and fuel will be donated by the owners […]

The pilot of a plane that collided with a skydiver, causing fatal injuries, has agreed to accept a nine-month suspension of all of his aviation certificates. But William J. Buchmann’s lawyer, R. Patrick Phillips, says the 57-year-old pilot is not admitting that he violated any regulations, despite accusations by the FAA that he flew the […]

Perhaps proving that no good mystery can be left that way, NBC News, without uncovering a shred of new information or evidence, is, according to the Palm Beach Post, “rekindling speculation” on what happened to a flight of five Navy Grumman Avengers that went missing 60 years ago off the coast of Florida in what […]