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Airshow spectators in southern England likely saved the life of a performer whose open-cockpit aircraft crashed into the ocean at the Herne Bay Air Show Sunday. According to the Telegraph, the Turbulent D31, a tiny single-seat homebuilt, may have had mechanical issues before the unidentified pilot may have ditched it in shallow water of the […]
For the second time in a week, Canadian authorities are investigating a crash involving an apparently stolen aircraft, this time with tragic consequences. The Piper Tomahawk crashed on a main street in Peterborough, Ontario, about 1:30 a.m. local time Friday. The pilot and lone occupant was killed in the crash. The plane hit an illuminated […]
Violent turbulence injured two dozen people and damaged parts of the cabin on a JetBlue flight that was forced to divert Thursday night and land in South Dakota. The Airbus A320, en route from Boston to Sacramento, apparently encountered multiple thunderstorms about 6:30 p.m. The crew attempted to steer clear of the worst weather but […]
General aviation accidents have continued to drop since 2013, according to AOPA’s 25th Joseph T. Nall Report. FAA data show that overall accident rates examined from 2004 to 2013 for non-commercial fixed-wing flights fell to 5.77 per 100,000 hours, while the fatal accident rate was 0.99 per 100,000 hours, Thursday’s report found. The trends could […]
The International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (IAOPA) will be lobbying the International Civil Aviation Organization to amend its medical standards for private pilots. IAOPA Director General Craig Spence spoke with AVweb’s Russ Niles about the initiative. Duration: 6:27 File Size: 6.7 MB download here
Flying an airplane involves multiple concepts from physics: Bernoulli’s principle, centrifugal force, Newton’s law of gravity, to name a few. There’s one more natural law, though, that isn’t in the science textbooks: the faster you’re trying to get somewhere, the more likely you’re going to get unexpectedly delayed. Today’s a perfect example of that. You […]
During a formation flying clinic near Redmond, OR (KRDM) one fine spring day. Lead: “Alex, never tell anyone I said this, but you look very pretty right there.” Redmond Tower: “Good thing you said that for the whole world to know.” Peter King
The Coulson Air Tankers Martin Mars is back at its home base in British Columbia after being damaged in an accident at AirVenture 2016. CEO Wayne Coulson told AVweb the aircraft flew from Lake Winnebago to Port Alberni last Tuesday with temporary repairs to holes in the hull. The plane was immediately pulled to dry […]
The International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (IAOPA) is pressing the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to adopt the so-called driver’s license medical as the standard for all private pilots. At the recent World Assembly held in Chicago just before AirVenture 2016, the 63 delegates from 28 member nations passed the following resolution: “The IAOPA […]
I was on AVweb news watch last week when a bulletin on a balloon crash in Texas came pixeling into my inbox. The headline said, “All 16 believed dead.” That can’t be right, I thought. And that’s been the reaction of nearly everyone in aviation whom I’ve talked to or corresponded with about this accident. […]
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