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When I was a controller in south Texas, a Piper Tripacer called me in the tower asking to transition through the airspace. Me:“Piper 123, squawk 4352.” Tripacer:“What’s that, tower?” Me:“Piper 123, squawk 4352.” Tripacer:“Tower, I don’t understand you.” Me:“Piper 123, your transponder code: 4352. Do you have a transponder on board?” Tripacer:“No, just me and […]
A lawnmower operator is dead after he was hit by a Ryan PT-22 while cutting the turf runway at Frazier Airpark, near Hollister, California, on Aug. 7. KSBW TVreports Douglas Ralph Jackson, 75, died instantly when the aircraft hit the large riding mower he was on after landing. The unidentified pilot of the Ryan told […]
As anyone who’s paid attention to Central U.S. weather the last few months knows, it’s been a particularly violent spring across “Tornado Alley.” Midwest storms made national news and reintroduced repeat targets—such as Moore, Okla. Well ahead of the storms and far in front of the inevitable miles of destruction images, Americans coast to coast […]
Just Aircraft says water in the fuel caused the loss of their demonstrator SuperSTOL aircraft on Aug. 2. Company founder Troy Woodland was at the controls when the aircraft went down shortly after takeoff at the company’s home base of Walhalla, South Carolina. Although the aircraft was destroyed, Woodland and his unidentified passenger were uninjured. […]
Officials are crediting teamwork between air traffic controllers and the pilots of a Delta Air Lines A320 with a successful outcome after the severely hail-damaged aircraft made an emergency landing at Denver International Airport on Friday. The aircraft was on a flight from Boston to Salt Lake City when it went flew through an area […]
The number of fatal general aviation accidents in the U.S. increased slightly in 2014 to 253, from 222 the previous year, the NTSB said Thursday in its preliminary report of annual statistics. The fatality rate also climbed in 2014, with 1.4 accidents per 100,000 flight hours compared to 1.12 the previous year. Overall, the accident […]
A carburetor malfunction led to the loss of engine power in the Ryan PT-22 flown by Harrison Ford when he made a forced landing in March, the NTSB said Thursday in its probable cause report. The board also cited faulty shoulder harness hardware that contributed to Ford’s multiple injuries. The actor and pilot was hospitalized […]
More debris, possibly from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, has washed up on Reunion Island, Malaysian officials said late Wednesday, although the French government did not confirm the findings. The island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, is the where a flaperon found last week was confirmed by Malaysian officials to be from the […]
Officials have confirmed that the flaperon found on Reunion Island off the coast of Africa last week originated from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished in March 2014. That origin for the wreckage had already been widely assumed, since it was known to be from a Boeing 777, and only one of those has been […]
Operators of unmanned aerial systems now can submit their flight plans online, and those operations will be displayed graphically to general aviation pilots when they file their flight plans, Lockheed Martin said on Monday. “Our objective is an open, standards-based system that individual operators and other private UTM [UAS traffic management] systems can use to […]
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