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A Kenya Wildlife Service pilot who survived on his own urine and leaves for eight days in the Kenyan forest told reporters hell be back in the cockpit as soon as hes recovered. Capt. Solomon Nyanjui was flying a Kenya Power and Lighting helicopter when it went down 10 kilometers from Chuka Town, in the […]

A Virgin Atlantic relief pilot, who was hauled off an aircraft and arrested on suspicion of being drunk, has been cleared of the charges and is expected to return to work. The unidentified 42-year-old pilot, who was to fly as the third crew member on the Virgin A340 from Heathrow to Miami, was arrested Oct. […]

Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the Cessna 162 Skycatcher – and its $109,000 price tag – were introduced earlier this year. In an interview with The Wichita Eagle, Cessna CEO Jack Pelton said that to make that price target “a major part of that content has to be built someplace […]

When a Beech Bonanza crashed into a New Jersey neighborhood in November 1999, killing the pilot and his wife and child, as well as one person on the ground, many lawsuits followed. This week, one of those suits was resolved in favor of S-Tec Corporation, based in Texas, manufacturer of the airplane’s autopilot. The case […]

If your holiday wish is to go flying with CNN reporter (and pilot) Miles O’Brien or to have aviation photographer Paul Bowen personally autograph a copy of his classic book “Air to Air” for you, then Build-A-Plane’s eBay auction site is the place you’re looking for. You can also bid to share a talkative lunch […]

After a TSA agent at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport said he smelled alcohol on the breath of a Midwest Airlines pilot last week, airport police arrested him. A breath test registered a blood alcohol level of .016, and the FAA limit for pilots is .04 and eight hours. The airline’s own limit is .02 percent. […]

If you think your flying job is stressful sometimes, consider the Monday morning that two Australian pilots had this week in Papua New Guinea. They were flying a chartered aircraft — the reports don’t specify what kind of airplane — carrying $2 million in cash for a bank, with two security guards on board. The […]

Most pilots love the sound of engines in the morning — and have little patience with airport neighbors who complain — but in Vancouver, one airline pilot who chose to live close to the airport has had it with early-morning engine tests and middle-of-the-night jumbo-jet takeoffs. “Some areas of [the city] are absolutely blasted,” Neil […]

It wasn’t that long ago that female pilots here in the U.S. were an uncommon sight — and unsettling, to some. Now in other parts of the world, women are just starting to find their way into the front seat, and not everyone is happy about it. In Qatar, the first Arab woman to fly […]

When famed aviator Steve Fossett went missing in Nevada last September, the scale of the search was humbling to many pilots who wondered, if I disappear one day, will the whole world come looking? Thanks to the Internet, it’s easier for even us regular folks to get the word out when a beloved pilot fails […]