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If you’re the owner of a U.S.-registered bizjet, the Transportation Security Administration announced Thursday you should be especially security-conscious, particularly if you’re headed overseas in it. The TSA’s memo says that on April 13, an Arab Web forum urged all Muslims to destroy American business aircraft: “Destroy private American aircraft … We call upon all […]

The FAA seemed struck by the almost cordial nature of the union letter and top officials met on Friday to discuss it. Basye told AVweb that while the agency “appreciated” the letter, it didn’t agree with Carr’s characterization of the final days of mediated bargaining. While Carr seems to think that progress was being made […]

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey will respond to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) president’s formal request that labor negotiations between the two resume. Just what she will say won’t be known until sometime today when the FAA releases her letter but the resumption of some kind of dialogue between the two might be taken […]

While tributes to Crossfield and biographies poured in from every corner of aviation (see AVweb‘s Joe Godfrey’s 2001 interview with Scott Crossfield here), one of his peers was suggesting Crossfield was an overconfident pilot whose “complacency” finally did him in. Chuck Yeager told WISTV News that Crossfield would push weather and sometimes “exceeded his capability […]

Gordon County Sheriff’s Major Clent Harris told WISTV News that wreckage was scattered over a quarter mile in three debris fields. There were no details on what parts of the airplane were in each debris field. He said the body was with wreckage and was removed after NTSB officials gave the go-ahead. He said he […]

It should not be taken as fact — eyewitness reports are rarely as accurate as the term suggests — but one man who lives a few hundred yards from where the main wreckage of test pilot Scott Crossfield’s 1960 Cessna 210 crashed last Wednesday said he saw the plane get hit by lightning just before […]

Getting kids excited about aviation is one thing, but helping them to follow it as a career and find the money for flight training is another. For one aspiring pilot, help came from an unexpected source — the Montel Williams Show. Randy Waldron, 24, of Revere, Mass., works as a flight attendant, but his dream […]

As EAA works to give introductory flights in GA aircraft to another million Young Eagles, other programs around the country also turn to aviation as a source of inspiration for youth. In Naples, Fla., third-graders last week took a tour of the local airport, and pupils who read more than 100 books get to go […]

“NATCA has shown significant movement at the table,” Carr said. “We proposed $1.4 billion in concessions, and we are still willing to get back to the table and work on our proposal and theirs, continuing to negotiate in good faith to secure a voluntary agreement.” Basye said NATCA “has shown no willingness to meet in […]

“John Carr is grasping at straws,” FAA spokesman Geoffrey Basye told AVweb on Tuesday. “The FAA remains at impasse in its contract negotiations with NATCA.” Basye said the FAA already has spent more than nine months in negotiations at a cost to the taxpayers of $2.3 million, and the two sides remain far apart on […]