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Representatives from both parties in Washington agreed on something this week — the European Union shouldn’t be allowed to unilaterally impose a carbon tax on aircraft flying there from the U.S. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that prohibits all U.S. airlines and general aviation operators from taking part in such a […]

Piper Aircraft announced on Monday it is “indefinitely suspending” further work on its Altaire single-engine business jet and will cut more than 200 jobs at its plant in Vero Beach, Fla. The news was not unexpected, coming just a week after the company appointed a new interim CEO and said it would “review” the program. […]

Opposition to a $100-per-operation user fee for business and commercial aircraft continues to mount among lawmakers. Last week, Republican members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee sent a letter to the Congressional Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction saying the fee proposed by the administration is arbitrary and could hurt the aviation industry. “The president’s […]

Those who use iPads for charts and approach plates are advised to pre-flight their devices before counting on them for navigation, thanks to Apple’s latest operating system upgrade. iOS5 includes a file-management feature that might be handy if you’re downloading a movie, but could be inconvenient at the very least if it messes with your […]

Video appeared to show that the thrust reversers of American Airlines Flight 2253 were slow to deploy before the 757-200 slid off the runway at Jackson Hole Wyoming last December — now we know the crew thought so, too. The NTSB Friday released a transcript of the flight’s cockpit voice recorder. The airliner had touched […]

Video memory cards and equipment recovered from the wreckage of Jimmy Leeward’s P-51 at the National Championship Air Races last month in Reno were too badly damaged to be of any help in the investigation of the crash, the NTSB said Friday. However, a card retrieved from flight data equipment and telemetry received by the […]

A lawyer for families of those killed in the February 2009 crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 says that the carrier’s internal emails prove it “chose profit over safety.” The Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 crash killed 50, after the aircraft stalled at night in freezing conditions over Clarence Center, N.Y. Colgan emails sent between supervisors […]

A book titled “Erreurs de Pilotage” (Pilot Error) by French flight instructor Jean-Pierre Otelli provides a transcript of the last two minutes captured by Air France Flight 447’s cockpit voice recorder as the jet crashed at night into the ocean off Brazil in June, 2009, killing all 228 aboard. The BEA says disclosure of the […]

A hail event at Murfreesboro Municipal Airport may have damaged up to 17 of 20 Diamond trainers operated by Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and left the school’s entire fleet grounded, temporarily putting a stop to flight instruction for hundreds of students. MTSU has roughly 400 students studying in its professional pilot concentrations and it […]

US Airways Flight 1549 pilots Capt. Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger (retired) and his FO on that day, Jeff Skiles, will be back in the cockpit together Nov. 18 but they have some work to do first. The Miracle on the Hudson pilots will be among the crew members on a fund-raising round-trip flight from Opa Locka […]