Flight Safety

Lately, there seems to have been a rash of airplanes landing on highways. What’s going on? In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli explains how to land an airplane on a highway in an emergency. Just try not to do it because you ran the airplane out of gas. view on YouTube

Some of the largest unions whose members are directly affected by the government shutdown are warning that aviation safety is being compromised and they’re not sure when it might collapse. In a joint statement, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the Air Line Pilots Association and the Association of Flight Attendants are urging an end […]

An Argentine soccer star and the pilot of the Piper Malibu they were on are presumed dead after the single is believed to have crashed in the English Channel Tuesday evening. Emiliano Sala was returning to Cardiff, Wales, after saying goodbye to his former teammates in Nantes, France. Sala had just signed a $19.3 million […]

Flights were disrupted at Newark Liberty Airport on Tuesday evening after two drones were spotted over Teterboro Airport, 17 miles away. The FAA said the drones were flying at about 3,500 feet. The FAA issued a ground stop at Newark and inbound flights were put in holds. The holding aircraft were allowed to land starting […]

One of the first examples of the platform Russia intends to use to launch its new hypersonic missiles has crashed in a snowstorm in the Russian Arctic, killing three of four of the crew on board. The TU-22M3M supersonic bomber was on a training flight when it crashed while attempting to land at Olenegorsk airbase […]

Air traffic control personnel are resigning to seek other work after a month without pay and a union representative told CNN on Monday he expects more to come. “They will resign. They will go get outside jobs,” a National Air Traffic Controllers Association Atlanta rep said in an interview with Don Lemon on Monday. NATCA […]

I basically live at an airport, and taxi to and from the airpark’s runway over what are residential streets the rest of the time. My normal taxi route includes a stand of bamboo, decades-old oak trees, mailboxes, a power pole and assorted fences. Tuesday is trash-collection day, and it can be a deal if your […]

AVweb’sGeneral Aviation Accident Bulletinis taken from the pages of our sister publication,Aviation Safetymagazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause in the NTSB’s website atwww.ntsb.gov. Final reports appear about a year after the accident, although some take longer. […]

Italian authorities are looking into the operations at Brindisi Airport after an Italian politician shot video of ground crews de-icing a Ryan Air aircraft with buckets of hot water. The video shows a green-vested worker trudging across the ramp with a five-gallon bucket before climbing a set of stairs set up by the left wing […]