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The Qantas crew whose A380 suffered an uncontained engine failure earlier this month had their hands full in getting the super jumbo back to Singapore. Shrapnel from the engine disabled one of two main hydraulic systems, hampered the fuel transfer system, punched a hole in the forward wing spar and caused a major fuel leak. […]

A CFI who went to the ends of the earth to promote general aviation is the winner of this year’s Let’s Go Flying Award from AOPA. As we reported late last year, Marine Corps Capt. Gabriel Glinsky, a V-22 Osprey pilot, gathered materials and voluntarily taught ground school to more than a dozen fellow Marines […]

Due to technical difficulties, some of you may not have received yesterday’s edition of AVwebFlash until later in the day than you’re used to getting it. If you’re the type who checks your e-mail in the morning and doesn’t loop back to see what you’ve missed, be sure to visit our online archive to catch […]

Recent reports in AVweb.com regarding AOPA compensation and other issues have been strongly challenged by AOPA leadership. AVweb.com naturally defends its reporting and its role as the independent voice of general aviation. In an effort to have an open-ended, unrestricted dialog about all facets of AOPA’s operations — from finances to fuels to new pilot […]

Reliance on automated systems may be eroding the flying skills of pilots, contributing to about 60 percent of the accidents reviewed by an FAA research team, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. FAA researcher Kathy Abbott presented the preliminary results of the FAA study at an aviation safety conference in Milan. Operating flight-control computers […]

A coalition of six Vancouver-area aviation businesses is suing the Canadian Ministry of Transport for lost business resulting from the flight restrictions imposed during the 2010 Olympic Games. Mike Skrobica, of the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC) announced the suit at ATAC’s annual meeting in Vancouver on Monday. He told AVweb the companies are […]

A crew of 42 aboard a 787 Dreamliner on a test flight Tuesday afternoon evacuated safely via emergency slides at Laredo, Texas, after the pilots reported smoke in the cabin while on approach to the airport. “We have decided to not fly the other planes until we better understand the incident,” a Boeing spokeswoman said, […]

Images captured Monday evening near Los Angeles “could be a test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile,” speculated former Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Ellsworth, but at least one other source offered a more mundane explanation. Multiple news sources reported Tuesday that the Pentagon and other military sources “can’t explain” the images. On Tuesday that […]

More than 70 aviation business leaders met with key political, policy and financial experts this week at the National Air Transportation Association 2010 NATA Aviation Business Roundtable. The two-day event provided a forum to discuss a number of issues affecting the aviation community, including the results of the mid-term elections, the economy, jobs, taxes, safety […]

The Transportation Security Administration has imposed some new rules on air cargo, effective this week, in response to the recent attempt to ship explosive devices into the U.S. from Yemen. Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security, said no air cargo will be accepted from Yemen or Somalia. In addition, no high-risk cargo will be allowed […]