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Passengers aboard an Air Canada flight bound for Vancouver from Ottawa last week were presented with an interesting dilemma. They were essentially asked who they believed, the flight attendants who walked off the plane claiming the aircraft wasn’t safe or the captain who insisted, via PA announcements, that it was. Globe and Mail columnist Gary […]

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. Two events involving Lockheed P2V firefighting aircraft this Sunday graphically displayed the dangers and skills required to safely fight fires with aircraft, and also renewed calls for fleet modernization. As the week began, […]

An American Airlines 757-200 that ran off the departure end of a snowy Runway 19 at Jackson Hole Airport on Dec. 29, 2010, actually had a chance of stopping, the NTSB announced Tuesday. None of the 185 aboard Flight 2253 were injured, but the aircraft suffered minor damage and passengers were rattled. (AVweb video.) The […]

Building business jets is a tough, competitive, complicated enterprise and the industry is enduring hard times, according to a U.S. International Trade Commission report (PDF) released last week. That may not sound like news to most of those in the industry but the report is a stab at explaining how all those factors add up […]

Early details emerging about the MD-83 that crashed Sunday in Nigeria, killing all 153 aboard and possibly scores more on the ground, include reports that the jet’s voice and data recorders were recovered Monday and that the captain was an American. The jet’s flight crew reportedly included the American captain, an Indian co-pilot and an […]

The first Eclipse 550 will be produced over the course of 12 months concurrent with retooling and validation of the production line that will create it, but the next jets will be built faster, Eclipse Aerospace told its dealers Friday. Following the first jet’s 12-month production cycle, the second aircraft is expected to emerge from […]

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. While the FAA has spent years trying to figure out how to accommodate unmanned aerial systems in the nation’s airspace, if you want to perform a video stunt involving a remote-control helicopter and […]

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. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say they’re the first to create a wing-flapping micro air vehicle (MAV) that can land autonomously by perching like a bird. The researchers say that […]

A Dana Air MD-83 carrying 153 passengers and crew crashed into a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday afternoon. All aboard the aircraft were believed to have been killed and there are also an unknown number of casualties on the ground. The flight originated in the Nigerian city of Abuja. The aircraft […]

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. Kansas City, Mo., pilot Caleb Elliott broke what many pilots consider a cardinal rule and he said he hopes to continue doing it for the rest of the tornado season. He and fellow […]