Flight Safety

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson says it will take about four years to rewrite regulations governing flight instruction in aircraft other than those in the standard category and until that’s done instructors will need extra paperwork. Speaking at the annual Meet the Administrator event at EAA AirVenture last Thursday, Dickson told the generally disappointed crowd that […]

The “jet pack” prankster in Los Angeles is apparently back flying and the FAA is asking pilots to be on the lookout. “A Boeing 747 pilot reported seeing an object that might have resembled a jet pack 15 miles east of LAX at 5,000 feet altitude around 6:12 p.m. Wednesday,” the Federal Aviation Administration reported […]

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Ray Aviation Scholarship fund has now awarded scholarships to 276 young aviators over the last three years, 133 of whom have now earned their pilot certificates. The scholarship fund, which provides $10,000 per award to young people ages 15-19 for flight training expenses, is supported by the Ray Foundation. To […]

Legends Airways and Tecnam announced the signing of a purchase agreement for five Tecnam aircraft at AirVenture 2021. The initial deal includes two P2008 LSAs, two four-seat, single-engine P2010s and one P2006T twin. The aircraft will be used for Legends’ Part 141/Part 61 flight school at Lakeland Linder International Airport (KLAL) in Lakeland, Florida. “Tecnam […]

Night had fallen outside my approach control. I was settling into my chair in the radar room when Center handed me a Cessna 172. Remarks showed it was an IFR training flight to one of our Class D satellite airports. I checked the time. That airport’s tower was closing momentarily. We routinely ran non-towered ops […]

A Montana pilot is in jail after he allegedly stole a Cessna 172M and made an emergency landing on a highway near Hamilton, Montana. The Ravalli Republic is reporting Kacey Shane Gessner was charged with grand larceny in a Ravalli County court and bail was set at $50,000. Gessner was also wanted on five outstanding […]

All three people aboard a Challenger 605 were killed when the aircraft crashed near Truckee-Tahoe Airport on Monday. The flight originated in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Identities of the victims were not immediately released. The aircraft was registered to Tarco Aviation Funding LLC in Fort Lauderdale but its flight history suggests it was based in the […]

Mexico says it has signed an agreement with the FAA to get its safety rating back in order. Last May, the agency reduced Mexico to a Category 2 safety rating, putting it at the same level of Third World countries with sketchy safety records. In downgrading the country, the FAA stopped Mexican airlines from starting […]

AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication, Aviation Safety magazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause on the NTSB’s website at www.ntsb.gov. Final reports appear about a year after the […]

Dale “Snort” Snodgrass, one of the warbird world’s most respected pilots, was killed on Saturday in the crash of a Marchetti SM.109 in Lewiston, Idaho. Details remain sketchy but the crash occurred just after noon. The aircraft is a high-wing STOL design based on the Cessna 0-1 Bird Dog and built by the Italian manufacturer. […]