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The NTSB announcedtoday that will take over and complete the investigation into the April 29, 2013, crash of a National Airlines Boeing 747 at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The cargo flight had originated at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, stopped at Bagram for fuel and was departing to fly to Dubai when it crashed shortly after […]

Despite Frontier Airlines stating that it grounded the jet that carried a Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola immediately after it was notified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it had made five additional flights before it was parked. Frontier said it was notified late Tuesday night by the CDC about the patient, who […]

The NTSB has released its preliminary report on the Oct. 7 fatal crash of a Cal Fire S-2F3AT tanker that was engaged in fighting the Dog Rock forest fire in Yosemite National Park, California. The NTSB reports that the crew of an aircraft that was operating as a controller for the firefighting operation and orbiting […]

Lockheed Martin is working on a compact fusion reactor that could be small enough to provide a power source for aircraft, and it could be ready to fly in 10 years or less, the company said on Wednesday. “Our compact fusion concept combines several alternative magnetic confinement approaches, taking the best parts of each, and […]

Last week, the FAA issued Change 6 to the Compliance and Enforcement Handbook for its inspectors, providing enforcement guidelines for violation of the FARs by drone operators. Among its provisions, it establishes a basis for holding certificated aircraft pilots to a higher standard than other drone operators, potentially leading to harsher punishments for certificated pilots […]

Gulfstream announced on Tuesday it plans to add two all-new wide-cabin business jets to its line: the Gulfstream G500 and G600. The first copy of the G500 is already built, and taxied up to the company’s unveiling event in Savannah, Georgia. The company also displayed a 70-foot-long mockup of the G600. “The G500 and G600 […]

In a growing market of ADS-B solutions, Avidyne Corporation has announced the MLB100ADS-B traffic and flight information system-an ADS-B solution designed for interface with the company’s recently certified IFD540 slide-in GPS navigator. The single-box MLB100, which is priced at $2495, is a 978MHz datalink receiver that offers full ADS-B traffic input capability when interfaced with […]

Representatives of the machinists union negotiating a new contract with Textron Aviation said company officials abandoned the talks on Sunday. The union said its committee had reviewed Textron’s proposal and passed back a counterproposal. “We were expecting to receive a ‘last, best and final’ offer from the company,” the union said. “Instead, they walked out […]

The FAA has fully restored air traffic operations at the Chicago En Route Center in Aurora, Illinois, the agency said on Monday. A full shift of air traffic controllers returned to Chicago Center Sunday night and resumed duties at their normal positions for the first time in more than two weeks. During the outage, which […]

The FAA has cancelled the 33-year-old advisory circular that sets out voluntary standards that most radio control model enthusiasts follow and aims to replace it with a set of enforceable regulations. On Oct. 10 Gary Norek, manager of the Airspace Policy and Regulations Group, applied to the agency’s Performance, Policy and Records Management to cancel […]