Flight Safety

AVweb’s Flight Safety section offers in-depth coverage of aviation safety topics, including accident analyses, risk management strategies, regulatory updates, and pilot training insights. Designed for pilots, instructors, and aviation professionals, this section provides timely information to enhance situational awareness and promote best practices in flight operations.

Latest Floatplane Crash Kills Four In Canada

It’s been an especially deadly year for floatplane operators so far as Canadian authorities investigate a Cessna Caravan crash that killed four of the nine occupants. The charter operated by Seair of Richmond, near Vancouver, was flying from Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island to Calvert Island, off the central coast of British Columbia, when […]

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Podcast: Tammie Jo Shults

In this podcast, Capt. Tammie Jo Shults talks with AVweb at AirVenture 2019 about discovering aviation, her experiences as a naval aviator, and handling emergencies in the air. Shults was pilot in command on Southwest Flight 1380, which experienced an uncontained engine failure in April 2018. Her book about her life and aviation career, Nerves […]

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Flyboarder Dunked In English Channel

French inventor Franky Zapata says his flyboard used in an attempt to cross the English Channel on Thursday worked perfectly but he’s going to get a bigger boat for the next attempt. The former competitive jet ski champion was trying to cover the 30-mile stretch of water on the 110th anniversary of Louis Bleriot’s first […]

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Patrouille de France Pilot Ejects After Takeoff Incident

A pilot for the French air force’s Patrouille de France demo team is safe after his aircraft went down near Perpignan-Rivesaltes Airport in the south of France on Thursday. The aircraft was one of nine flying a practice routine ahead of an airshow at the airport when something went wrong with the No. 2 Alphajet. […]

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Dickson Confirmed As New FAA Administrator

In a vote along party lines, the Senate approved the nomination of former Delta VP of flight pperations Steve Dickson as the next FAA administrator on Wednesday. Dickson, who was a line pilot with Delta before going to the head office, was nominated by President Donald Trump in March. While at Delta, he served on […]

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Vulcanair Adds New Multi Trainer

Vulcanair and its U.S distributor Ameravia announced at AirVenture that they will be offering a new version of the Vulcanair P68R designed for use by flight schools as a multi-engine trainer. The P68R ECO is powered by twin Lycoming IO-360 engines and comes equipped with the Garmin G1000NXi and GFC700 autopilot. According to Ameravia, the […]

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ATP Purchases Skyhawk Fleet

ATP Flight School has signed an agreement with Textron Aviation for orders and options for up to 100 Cessna 172 Skyhawks, the companies announced at AirVenture on Tuesday. According to ATP, the new aircraft will be supplementing and replacing aircraft in ATPs fleet and will be used exclusively by students in the school’s Airline Career […]

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Redbird Launches GIFT Instrument Rating, Corvus

Redbird Flight Simulations introduced GIFT Instrument Rating, a companion training program for Redbird simulators that is uses AI-monitored lessons and feedback to teach instrument concepts, at AirVenture 2019. GIFT Instrument Rating is the next phase of the company’s Guided Independent Flight Training (GIFT) program, which debuted in 2017. Like its predecessor, GIFT Private Pilot, GIFT […]

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Australia, Europe Ground GippsAero GA8

Australia has grounded all 63 of the domestically built GippsAero GA8 Airvans registered in that country and EASA is allowing ferry permits only in Europe after a fatal crash in Sweden killed all nine on board. The aircraft was on a skydiving flight. Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority suspended GA8 operations for 15 days starting […]

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