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Monday, AVweb posted images that showed what happened to key parts of the Airbus A320 that landed last month at LAX with its nosegear twisted 90-degrees from center. Our link may have taken some readers, however, to images showing the aftermath of an earlier twisted-nosegear-landing incident, which also involved a JetBlue Airbus … one that […]

BRAINTEASERS Quiz #99 — Step Up To Twins Congratulations, Mrs. Hollow, it’s twins. Twice the power at four times the expense lures the single-minded pilot into the multi-engine PIC seat with a multitude of multi-faceted questions. So grab a fistful of throttles and answer away.

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It could soon be against the law to point a laser at an airplane. Well, to be clear, it was always against one law or another (interference with a flight crew being the most common one cited) but the rash of laser incidents last year has prompted a Florida congressman to craft a specific bill […]

Flight attendants trying to save a Cypriot airliner with an unconscious crew on board were locked out of the cockpit — by the plane — until it was too late to do anything, according to the Greek assessment of a computer simulation of the flight. More than 100 people died when the Helios Airways Boeing […]

Your next commuter flight might be helped to its destination by synthetic vision. Chelton Flight Systems Systems has received FAA certification of a new Approved Model List STC that covers all large Part 23 aircraft, including commuter aircraft, for its synthetic vision system. Among the planes that can now be equipped with the “highway-in-the-sky” system […]

An Australian crop-duster said he was only trying to save his own skin when he landed his burning aircraft, by memory, on a dirt strip near Deniliquin, New South Wales, last week. “I was just interested in getting out,” Fred Clipperton told a hospital spokeswoman in Deniliquin. “I just flew her down. I switched her […]

The FAA has approved a procedure called conductive keratoplasty to fix near vision problems in pilots who now must rely on glasses to read charts or the panel. “Certification by the FAA as a vision correction procedure for pilots validates the safety and value of CK as a refractive treatment,” said Mitchell Campbell, president of […]

Cessna has now officially announced what AVweb told you last week — that it’s planning a “brand new, next generation” single-engine aircraft. However, the company claims it doesn’t know what such a plane might look like. Spokesman Dick Ziegler told The Wichita Eagle that dealers were briefed on the project last week at their annual […]