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Fisticuffs, Molestation And Air India?

Air India has some trouble to sort out following reports Sunday that the crew of one of its commercial flights was involved in pilot/purser fisticuffs and pilot(s)/flight attendant sexual harassment all while en route over Pakistan with 106 passengers aboard. The flight was out of UAE for Delhi, and the whole mess may have begun […]

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Avidyne Offers Price Cuts Through FlySafe Promotion

Avidyne is, from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2009, offering “instant rebates” via its FlySafe promotion that will save single-unit buyers $500 and could save multiple-unit buyers up to $5,000. The deal is applicable to Avidyne’s Entegra, Entegra MFD, Wx, and Traffic series units, with one small catch. To save the money, customers must “register […]

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TCM Announces Temporary Plant Closures, More

Teledyne Continental Motors Inc. announced Friday that it will close for one week, Monday Oct. 5 through Monday Oct. 12, and will put other cost-cutting measures into effect “in response to reduced demand” for the aircraft engines and parts it produces. Salaried staff will go to four-day workweeks as of Oct. 12 and vacations for […]

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Pilot Lost In Lake

Witnesses saw a man appear to escape the single-engine float-equipped experimental Avid Catalina registered to 61-year-old Jim Eachus that sank Wednesday into Inks Lake near Burnet, Texas, but then saw him disappear into the water. It took until Saturday morning for searchers to find the body of the pilot. Witnesses say one of the aircraft’s […]

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Japan’s First Passenger Jet, A Geared Turbofan, Wins Foreign Order

The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), Japan’s state-backed stab at earning a foothold in the commercial passenger jet market, has won a 100-plane order with a street value of $4 billion from a U.S. regional carrier. Trans State Holdings, based in Missouri, operates GoJet and Trans States Airlines, along with feeder services for United and US […]

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1905 Wright Flyer III Replica Crashes, Pilot Seriously Injured

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. Mark Dusenberry, vintage aircraft builder and pilot, was seriously injured Thursday when he crashed a replica of the 1905 Wright Flyer III at Huffman Prairie Flying Field. The airfield is cited by some […]

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Planespotter Captures Birdstrike

Stefan Sonnenberg Click for larger image Some days just don’t go as planned and the crew of this Germania Airlines Boeing 737 was having one of those days on Wednesday. The Daily Mail says 200 starlings were ingested by the right engine of the aircraft as it took off from Dusseldorf bound to Kosovo. There […]

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Coalition Says FAA Reauthorization “Critically Overdue”

The aviation community has had a tough time this fall getting Congress to focus on the issue of FAA reauthorization, but patience — and time — are running out. The FAA budget was due to expire this week, on Sept. 30, but has now been extended to Dec. 31. Aviation advocacy groups are pressuring the […]

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F-16s Escort Mooney With Unresponsive Pilot

Click for a larger image of the flight path, via Flightaware A Mooney crashed Wednesday morning near Muncie, Ind., after the pilot, who was alone on board, became disoriented and then failed to respond to ATC. Two F-16s from the Indiana National Guard intercepted the airplane, which was flying erratically, [see FlightAware tracklog] and provided […]

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