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Four people survived the crash of a chartered seaplane operated by Kenmore Air in the waters off Washington State Friday. The de Havilland Beaver crashed near its destination, Lopez Island, part of the San Juan Islands, just before 9 a.m. according to news reports. The crew members on a fishing boat rescued all four from […]
AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication, Aviation Safety magazine and is published twice a month. 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 web site at www.ntsb.org. Final […]
When a family survived a wilderness crash in California in 1967 in their Cessna 195, only to die while waiting for rescue that never came, their story brought home the need for general aviation aircraft to carry ELTs, says Alaska author Ross Nixon. In his book, “Finding Carla,” now in bookstores, Nixon details what went […]
They say aviation regulations are written in blood, and Alaska pilot Ross Nixon tells a story that makes that clear — when a family was lost in a California crash in 1957, it was ultimately determined they might have survived if only they’d been found in time. Thanks to that somber event, says Nixon, general […]
Our body is traditionally said to have five senses—all of which, it can be argued, are involved in piloting an airplane. The problem occurs when the inputs from two or more contradict each other thereby causing an erroneous mental picture. During instrument training most of us have experienced “the leans” where our eyes convey one […]
A study conducted by NBAA has found that 15 percent of flights in business jets begin without a complete flight-control check, the association reported last week. The NTSB suggested a need for the study after its investigation of a fatal 2014 accident involving a Gulfstream G-IV at Hanscom Field, in Bedford, Mass. The safety board […]
JAX Approach: American 123, airport 11 o’clock, 8 miles. Report in sight. AA123: (obviously, the co-pilot) The man says he has the airport in sight. JAX approach: Tell the man he’s cleared to the airport, expect a visual runway 8. AA123: I’ll break it to him gently.
NavWorx says it is working to resolve an issue with the FAA, which is refusing to process $500 rebate reservations for two models of transceivers the company makes. The agency is telling those who bought ADS600-B 200-0012 and 0013 models that they don’t qualify for the rebate because they are not fully in compliance with […]
Three people were killed when two aircraft collided in North Collins, south of Buffalo, Sunday morning. The aircraft, a Cessna 120 and a Piper PA-28, had just taken off from Hamburg Airport. A 60-year-old man in one of the aircraft and a couple, both 69, in the other died in the resulting crash, which occurred […]
Triton AeroMarine is on the brink of getting FAA approval for its Chinese-built SkyTrek light sport airplane. The company’s president and chief engineer, Thomas Hsueh, hopes the aircraft will not only help GA grow in China, but become an affordable training and personal aircraft in the U.S. He told AVweb at AirVenture 2016 that he’ll […]
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