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A 57-year-old tourist from New Zealand was killed earlier this week when she was knocked off her feet and into a retaining wall while watching jets depart from the St. Maarten Airport. Even if the name is unfamiliar, most pilots are familiar with pictures of baby-blue KLM 747s flying low over the heads of tourists […]
The wishes of ForeFlight users eager to use Jeppesen departure, arrival and approach plates have come true. The partnership between ForeFlight and the famed navigation data publisher was announced in early May, but access to the instrument plates only became available to ForeFlight users Wednesday. The upgrade to Jeppesen charts covering the continental U.S. plus […]
An Air Canada A320 crew mistakenly lined up to land on the parallel Taxiway C instead of Runway 28R last Friday at San Francisco International Airport, a mistake that was caught and corrected by air traffic controllers. The incident sparked widespread news reporting about the “near miss” that could have caused “the greatest aviation disaster […]
When I first saw the story yesterday in the Mercury News, that a jet had to execute a go-around at SFO after lining up on the taxiway instead of the runway, my first reaction was that the “disaster averted!” angle was overwrought. Really? I thought. Just like every day, when I tap the brakes to […]
In the deadliest U.S. airplane crash since Colgan Air in 2009, 16 people died on Monday afternoon when a C-130 operated by the Marine Corps crashed in a soybean field in Mississippi. There were no survivors, and authorities are still working to confirm the exact number of people on board. Photos and videos online show […]
Bell Helicopter’s twin-engine 525 Relentless is back in the air after being grounded for about a year following a fatal crash in Texas, the company has announced. Two Bell Helicopter pilots were killed in July 2016 when the 525 crashed during a test flight near the company’s facility in eastern Texas. “Bell Helicopter has worked […]
Heard recently on the CTAF frequency at Arlington Municipal Airport (KAWO) in Washington: Cessna 123: “Departing 34, straight out to the west.” Eric Taylor
As the FAA sorts out the mess created when its drone registration rule was struck down by the courts, it’s already thinking about taking the registration requirement to the next level and requiring operators to transmit their registration information. The drone website wetalkuav.com reported that the first meeting of the FAA’s UAS Identification and Tracking […]
The pilot of a P-51D was uninjured but the aircraft was substantially damaged in an off-airport landing near Duxford, England, on Sunday. The Mustang known as Miss Velma was set down in a field near the airfield during an airshow. Duxford is home to one of the biggest collections of Second World War aircraft and […]
The U.K. and Norway say they’ll soon lift a 17-month ban on the use of two models of Airbus Super Puma helicopters to service offshore oil operations. The H225LP and AS332L2 helicopters were taken off that kind of duty after a crash in April of 2016 in which the rotor blades separated from a Super […]
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