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Jessica Dubroff died 21 months ago as a very youngpassenger in the left seat of a Cessna airplane. The pilot, in the right seat, took off ina driving rainstorm, in the thin air of an unfamiliar high-altitude airport, with thefuel-air mixture improperly set and the plane carrying almost a hundred pounds over itscertified weight limit. […]

Avoiding Aviation Gridlock: A Consensus for Change National Civil AviationReview Commission Preliminary Funding TaskForce Report Norman Y. Mineta, ChairSeptember 10, 1997 NOTE: A PDF version of this report is also available. Table of Contents I. COMMISSION FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A.Commission Findings B.Commission Recommends an Integrated and Comprehensive Package II. INTRODUCTION: WASHINGTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM […]

Avoiding Aviation Gridlock: A Consensus for Change National Civil Aviation Review CommissionPreliminary Funding Task Force Report Norman Y. Mineta, ChairSeptember 10, 1997 ATTACHMENTS DRAFT LEGISLATION AND SECTION BY SECTION SUMMARY SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.— This Act may be cited as the `Aviation System Improvement Act’. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.— […]

The midair collision on thelakefront on July 19, 1997 was a tragedy. Seven people died and the sorrow that incidenthas caused can not be measured. I had a personal loss just last month that I will nevercompletely recover from so I am not making light of it. What angers me is the exploitationby the media […]

I‘d purchased a 1995 American Champion Super Decathalon, and beforeshipping it home to Japan it seemed almost sacrilegious not to fly it toOshkosh. So I departed Chino, California (CNO) on July 26th at 1300 local,with my camping gear in the back and full tanks. After skirting the Las VegasClass B and deviating around the north […]

“Oh happy, happy, joy, joy!” we thought to ourselves as wesaw signatures of famous people in the FAA, N.J. Division of Aeronautics,and the City of Atlantic City on a “memorandum of understanding” about BaderAirport. The long nightmare was ending. The airport would survive for anotherdecade. In return for being allowed to proceed with constructing a […]

The key facts of theMike Taylor matter reveal that an injustice has occurred, regardless of the legal technicalities. A student pilot fails to refuel his private airplane on a cross-country solo flight and crashes. The student pilot was warned by his instructor to refuel before embarking on his return leg. The instructor’s CFI and other […]

NTSB Identification: DCA97MA009. Aircraft #1: Beech A90, registration: N112DAircraft #2: Beech 1900C, registration: N87GL Scheduled 14 CFR 135 operation of GREAT LAKES AVIATION, LTD.(D.B.A. United Express AIRLINES) Accident occurred NOV-19-96 at QUINCY, ILInjuries: 14 Fatal. On November 19, 1996, at 1703 CST, a UnitedExpress Beechcraft 1900c, Flight 5925 collided with a Beechcraft King AirA90, N1127D, […]

The following NASA memorandum illustrates that no matter the size of the aircraft — Cessna 152 or Shuttle — or how much training a crew receives, it’s fundamentals like instrument cross-check and airspeed control that count. We’ve de-identified the folks involved, and we’ve attempted to decode all the arcane acronyms unique to the shuttle program […]

In-Flight Loss of Control (The Jessica Dubroff Flight) Cessna 177B Cheyenne, Wyoming HISTORY OF THE FLIGHT: On April 11, 1996, at about 0824 mountain daylighttime, a privately-owned Cessna 177B collided with terrain after a lossof control following takeoff from runway 30 et the Cheyenne Airport, Cheyenne,Wyoming. The pilot in command, pilot trainee, and rear seat […]