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Local and federal agencies have teamed up to provide extra equipment to search Lake Erie for the Citation jet that has been missing for nearly a week. A 75-foot U.S. Geological Survey research ship with sonar systems has arrived in Cleveland to help detect the cockpit voice recorder of the 2012 CJ4, according to local […]
On a news sensationalism scale of one to 10, stories about drunken airline pilots are about an 11. These seem to pop up in the news cycle about once a month and occasionally, just to really turbocharge them, we even get video of the pilot stumbling through security and falling down %^$faced into the cockpit […]
One issue that comes up with building an aircraft is where and how the pilot learns to fly the aircraft. Many believe it’s the old adage of “kick the tires and light the fires.” But speaking from the insurance side…I don’t think so. When a person is working on their license, they are required to […]
A report written by a British Airways cabin-crew director, and seen by The Sunday Times of London, said the flight attendants aboard an A380 that took off from San Francisco for London then diverted to land in Vancouver, Canada, last month, were vomiting and acting strangely in response to toxic fumes in the cabin. Some […]
A baggage handler was trapped inside the baggage area of a United Express Embraer 175 regional jet on Sunday while the jet flew from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Dulles Airport, in Washington, D.C., according to various news reports on Tuesday. The flight took off about 3 p.m. and landed on schedule about 90 minutes later. […]
As a 16-year-old student pilot I was on a short night flight from Hershey to Capital City airport (KCXY) in Harrisburg, PA. I was told on initial contact to “report a three miles final for runway 26.” Me: “Piper xxx is three-mile final runway 26” Tower: “Negative Piper xxx…you’re 4.5 miles out. We’ve got the […]
Three people died when a Piper Arrow and a Luscombe collided near McKinney, Texas, Saturday. The aircraft were near Aero Country Airport when they came together. One crashed onto a road and another hit a storage yard and caught fire, burning some of the goods in the yard along with the airframe. The occupants haven’t […]
At least two severely drunk airline pilots have been arrested before allegedly trying to fly passengers over the holiday period. The most recent incident was a Sunwing Airlines captain who was found passed out in the cockpit early Saturday while his flight was being boarded in Calgary, Alberta. The unidentified pilot had to be revived […]
Coast Guard crews resumed recovery efforts Sunday in Lake Erie for a corporate jet that disappeared off the shoreline of northeastern Ohio late Thursday. News reports say the Citation 525C, based in Columbus, Ohio, had flown earlier in the day toBurke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland with six on board. The aircraft departed the field about […]
Every year structural icing claims a small but steady number of airplanes. Many of the accidents are on approach in clear air—after the airplane has already collected a load of ice. We look at them afterward and wonder—the airplane had been doing fine—why did it crash well after it escaped from icing conditions? Full-scale airframe […]
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