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A Piper Aerostar being used in the filming of a Tom Cruise movie in Colombia crashed Friday, killing a well-known Hollywood aerial helicopter stunt specialist. Alan Purwin, who has worked on dozens of high-profile movies, was a passenger in the Aerostar. Cruise was not aboard the aircraft, which crashed in bad weather while on its […]

The pilot of the Hawker Hunter that crashed at a U.K. airshow in late August, killing 11 people, has been released from the hospital and will shortly be interviewed by crash investigators. Andy Hill, 51, a former RAF pilot and a current British Airways captain, was put in an induced coma after the crash and […]

Garmin will power the panel for Cirrus’s new SF50 Vision Jet and the touchscreen system includes five screens, including massive PFD and MFD displays. Cirrus says the Cirrus Perspective Touch by Garmin “sets the new standard in performance, personalization, safety and ease of use for operators.” Of course, the list of standard features includes all […]

The gift shop and model museum at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York are awaiting a new life after a fire destroyed the facility in August. The trustees of the aerodrome said they’ve opened a temporary gift shop and the regular weekend airshows will continue until mid-October, when its season is scheduled to end. […]

It appears an uncontained engine failure led to the dramatic aborted takeoff and evacuation of a British Airways Boeing 777 at Las Vegas on Tuesday. The NTSB released its preliminary report Thursday and said parts of the left GE90-85B engine were found on the runway along the takeoff path and “initial examination of the left […]

The NTSB will hold a day-long forum addressing loss-of-control accidents in GA on Oct. 14 in Washington, D.C. Loss of control, one of the board’s primary topics in accident reduction efforts this year, continues to be a top cause of GA fatalities. The upcoming event, “Humans and Hardware: Preventing Inflight Loss of Control in General […]

The Midwest LSA Expo will hold its seventh annual show Thursday through Saturday at Mt. Vernon Outland Airport in Illinois. About 45 exhibitors will be at the show, including dealers for light sport aircraft, kitplane companies, avionics and parts businesses and aviation organizations. This year, the show will also feature an expanded Part 103 ultralight […]

The Gulfstream G-IV flight crew should have used the checklist and checked the flight controls before taking off from Boston’s Hanscom Field in May 2014, the NTSB said on Wednesday in its final report on the fiery crash that killed all seven on board. To remind pilots of the importance of these procedures, the NTSB […]

Two passengers suffered minor injuries after a British Airways aircraft caught fire at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport on Wednesday. The flight crew aborted the takeoff after the left engine apparently caught fire. The 159 passengers and 13 crew on the Boeing 777 evacuated on the runway using the slides. The aircraft was taking off […]

The two pilots and five passengers aboard a chartered Wheels Up Citation Excel XLS had some anxious moments when the main cabin door opened in flight but didn’t detach from the aircraft. The aircraft had just taken off from San Francisco International Airport on Aug. 6 for a flight to Drummond Island Airport in Michigan […]