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Thirty bodies of the 162 on board AirAsia QZ8501 have been recovered, and searchers found what appears to be the A320’s tail at the bottom of the Java Sea, the L.A. Times reported Friday.A U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter took eight bodies to Borneo island while four more bodies remained on the Sampson, a San […]

The crash of AirAsia 8501 on Sunday has raised questions about the safety record of Indonesia’s fast-growing aviation industry. While investigators search the Java Sea for clues to the cause of the crash, a New York Times report this week said Indonesia ranks low among other nations in airline safety practices and is one of […]

A law enforcement helicopter crashed in southeastern Arizona Wednesday, killing the pilot and a mechanic, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office said. The helicopter was returning from Phoenix after routine maintenance when it crashed. The two on board were pronounced dead at the scene. The helicopter, leased by the sheriff’s office, is assigned a civilian crew […]

Two Las Vegas police officers were injured Wednesday when their helicopter crashed on a road near the city’s downtown, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The Hughes 369, owned by the city’s police department, landed on the road about 1:30 p.m. and emergency responders arrived, the newspaper said. The two officers were able to walk away […]

Investigators of the AirAsia jet crash are looking at evidence the A320 might have flown an “unbelievably” steep climb before crashing into the Java Sea, a Reuters report said Wednesday, quoting an unnamed official. Radar data transmitted before the aircraft disappeared Sunday indicate “this rate of climb is very high, too high. It appears to […]

Chinese aircraft maker Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. announced this week it was awarded a type certificate for the country’s first regional jet from the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The ARJ21-700 is nearing final certification and the first two will go to a domestic carrier, Chengdu Airlines, The Associated Press reported. While the […]

Nine bodies have been recovered so far from the wreckage of the AirAsia jet that crashed in the Java Sea as bad weather continues to hamper the search for more bodies and the A320’s fuselage, Bloomberg reported Thursday morning.Sonar imaging had identified an object about 150 feet beneath the ocean surface which officials at first […]

A Cessna 404 Titan crashed in Centennial, Colorado, early Tuesday, killing the pilot. The wreckage stopped about 10 feet from a house in a suburban area about 4:30 a.m. The aircraft took off from Centennial Airport at 4:27 a.m., according to local media reports, and crashed five minutes later. The NTSB told a news conference […]

Icon has been test-flying its ESN-1 engineering prototype extensively, the company said last week, and also has completed structural assembly of ESN-2, which will be the second aircraft in the test fleet. The staff is simultaneously assembling ASN-1, which will be the first aircraft for customer delivery. ESN-1 completed several days of on-the-water tests at […]

Terrafugia has requested an exemption from the FAA to allow its Transition roadable aircraft to weigh up to 1,800 pounds and have a stall speed of 54 knots and still be classified as an LSA. The LSA rules set the maximum weight at 1,320 pounds and a maximum stall speed of 45 knots. “I think […]