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The 59th National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) annual meeting and convention starts tomorrow, some version of the PiperJet is there (under wraps), a SATSair (Cirrus’ recently acquired air taxi company) SR20 is on static display, HondaJet is on site, and AVweb will be there with daily coverage delivered to your inbox on Tuesday and Wednesday […]

The tenor of the investigation, and the accusations against the pilots, have raised concerns about accuracy and fairness. “We call on the Brazilian government to stay strong in the face of immense public pressure and continue to respect the integrity of the investigation and not rush to judge the various players in this accident,” said […]

As two American pilots continue to be held in Brazil — not charged with any crime, but also not allowed to leave the country — questions about the apparent midair collision between a Legacy 600 business jet and a Boeing 737 over the Amazon jungle on Sept. 29 remain unresolved. All 154 aboard the 737 […]

Other GA areas of concern to the safety board, Guzzetti said, include aging aircraft, air-tour operations, unmanned aerial vehicles and flight into thunderstorms. He’s also “very intrigued” with any accidents involving GA aircraft with airbags. “We’ll be launching on every one of those, and collecting data,” he said. The board wants to study the safety […]

Jeff Guzzetti, the NTSB’s deputy director for regional operations, told AVweb on Tuesday the board is keeping an eye on about a dozen different GA safety issues, many of them involving new technologies. He said the board will be “monitoring very closely” the introduction of very light jets (VLJs). “We’ll be very attuned to the […]

General aviation safety issues have been getting more attention lately from the NTSB, and that trend is going to continue, says the board’s chairman, Mark Rosenker. “From my perspective, we need to continue to elevate GA safety in public and political eyes, while operating within increasingly tight budgets,” Rosenker said at a meeting of safety […]

For now, a Temporary Flight Restriction is in place above the accident scene, extending up to and including 1,500 feet AGL, with a radius of 1 nm. Lidle had apparently bought the airplane this summer and had learned to fly in the last off-season. He talked to the New York Times last month about his […]

Clear day view, East River corridor at right The pilots in the Cirrus had reportedly been on a sightseeing flight in the area. They had taken off from Teterboro Airport, six miles west of New York, in nearby New Jersey, just 23 minutes before the crash. Weather indicated a ceiling at 1500, with visibility 8 […]

Details as of our deadline were still in flux, but it appears that two people, including Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, 34, were killed when a Cirrus SR20 (Lidle, a private pilot since February, purchased the aircraft in June) crashed into a Manhattan apartment building near the East River yesterday at about 3 p.m. The fiery […]

How it all works seems pretty esoteric to the uninitiated so DeLaurentis tried to bring it down to a level mere mortals can understand. “You can almost think of it as a video game where the service providers are adding flights and subtracting flights and doing the best they can to satisfy changing demand, and […]