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The pilot of an aircraft identified by news reports as an L-2 Grasshopper made an unscheduled visit to a shopping mall in Fort Myers, Fla., about 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday. According to local media outlets, the pilot made an emergency landing in the parking lot. The pilot suffered minor injuries and his passenger was unhurt. […]

NASA Administrator Jim Griffin says NASA is all about providing information and if someone in the organization is keeping inconvenient truths under wraps, hell see what he can do to get them out in the open. On Monday, The Associated Press ran a story saying NASA brass had prevented the release of a survey of […]

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when an expensive business jet collides with an asphalt roller, you might ask Sony Corp. Their Mystere Falcon 900 was taxiing for departure from Teterboro Airport last Sept. 28 when the left wing clipped the machine on a taxiway. According to the NTSB preliminary report, neither the captain of […]

There were no injuries in the midair collision of a Cessna 152 and a Piper Saratoga five miles out of Republic Airport on Long Island early Sunday evening. Airport spokesman Gary Lewi told Newsday that the two aircraft, both based at Republic, “bumped” each other about 6:15 p.m. while they were both heading back to […]

Passenger complaints about airline food usually fall on deaf ears but when a pilot and flight attendant joined the chorus about a Columbus familys choice of carry-on cuisine, it raised a big stink. Robert Blum told The Associated Press that a pilot and flight attendant threatened to throw him and his family off the United […]

The only thing that moves faster than the aviation rumor mill, it seems, is the price of avgas. Over the past few months, AVweb has been getting sporadic reports about shortages of 100 LL. In every case, the issue seemed localized and short-lived but weve had enough of them to wonder if these are the […]

More than half of the corporate aircraft that were once based in West Virginia have relocated since the imposition of a state property tax that includes aircraft. Thats prompted the West Virginia Aeronautics Commission to push for legislation that would exempt corporate and other aircraft from the tax. Before the tax, there were 23 corporate […]

Alaskas environment department is considering regulating the cleanup of spills of propylene glycol, the most common chemical de-icing fluid used on aircraft. Aviation groups are monitoring the progress of the proposed legislation and some individuals are questioning the point of the new law, which doesnt address the hundreds of thousands of gallons of the chemical […]

A World War II Lancaster bomber pilot, with more than 60 years of flying experience, has been identified as the pilot of a Piper Seneca that crashed into the ninth floor of a Vancouver-area apartment building on Friday. Peter Garrison (no, not the technical guy from Flying Magazine), 82, of nearby Maple Ridge, B.C., was […]

… But when the airplane you’re flying is loaded with chemicals and fuel and headed at a very low altitude directly at a hillside, apparently one’s brain might concoct that jumping out is a reasonable option. Reports from South Africa say that ag-pilot Johan Foley found himself facing that particular set of circumstances when the […]