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The NTSB now has access to safety data gathered by the FAA, airlines and pilots thanks to an agreement signed last week. The deal will allow the NTSB to ask for information gleaned from anonymous reports gathered by the Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) program. “I am grateful to the FAA, industry and […]

The NTSB says (PDF) it’s likely a five-year-old girl’s restlessness started the chain of events that led to the crash of a helicopter that killed her and four others on Valentine’s Day in 2010. Although there is no direct evidence to support the hypothesis, the board says simulator scenarios and a biomechanical study point to […]

Aircraft maintenance engineers meeting at an annual congress held by Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) this year at Malta were told “a staggering amount of evidence” shows safety lapses by airlines and regulators. The group says an ICAO safety audit results show carriers’ average rate of compliance with safety regulations is “around 60 percent.” At the […]

AOPA’s FlyQ Electronic Flight Bag app for iPad launches today, according to AOPA, putting flight planning tools into the hands of pilots and, according to some industry players, turning the organization from “pilot advocacy group” to “competitor.” The debut of the subscription-based app packages airport directory information, weather, moving maps, approach plates, synthetic vision, smart […]

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Video has emerged of the July 17 event that resulted in a CRJ200 taxiing at high speed into a terminal building at St. George Municipal Airport, […]

A letter sent by Hawker Beechcraft to its employees Wednesday informed them that the company would be cutting workers and closing specific facilities, resulting in job losses for more than 400 employees. Hawker Beechcraft Services facilities in Little Rock, Ark., Mesa, Ariz., and San Antonio, Texas, will “begin the process of closing,” shedding some 240 […]

Boeing’s next commercial twinjet, the 777X, might come with folding wings to ease maneuvering around jetways, according to a story this week in the Seattle Times. The longer wings, with a span of about 233 feet, would allow for a more fuel-efficient design, and would fold upward about 10 feet from the wingtip, an unnamed […]

Aviators have been helping out with the recovery from last week’s storm in multiple ways, including relief flights, evacuations, and more. And a handful of pilots working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been flying at 5,000 feet above the coastline where the storm hit hardest, creating a high-resolution mosaic of the damage. […]

Even to the practiced eye, business jets can look remarkably similar and a Russian publisher has introduced an iPad app that makes comparing them a little easier. Upcast Media has introduced JetBook, an interactive tool that graphically and textually presents and compares 65 of the most popular business jets from every perspective imaginable. “It’s hi-tech, […]

Business aviation analysts generally rely on the general economy as a barometer of the health of the industry but the prolonged downturn in many segments of bizav have generated some creative thinking in that area. Now Corporate Jet Investor has plotted attendance at the annual National Business Aviation Association convention against some key indicators in […]