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Air France has accelerated its effort to replace pitot tubes on its Airbus aircraft after members of one pilots union threatened to refuse to fly the unmodified airplanes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The airline had said over the weekend it would replace the sensors on all Airbus A330 and A340 airplanes over […]

The NTSB this week is holding a three-day hearing on the January ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River. On Tuesday, the board heard Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger recall his decision-making process on that day. After considering all the possible choices, “The only option remaining in the metropolitan area that was […]

The Financial Post is reporting Onex Corp., one of the parent companies of Hawker Beechcraft, is reportedly making a play for International Lease Finance Corp., the world’s largest aircraft leasing company. ILFC is now owned by American International Group (AIG), which is busy shedding assets to pay off the loan portion of its $182 billion […]

Baja Bush Pilots, a group representing pilots who frequently fly to Mexico, is polling members to see if any have had an encounter with Customs and Border Protection agents similar to the experience of Long Beach, Calif. pilot David Perry and his three passengers a couple of weeks ago. In a podcast interview with AVweb, […]

Dig through the closet and dust off Mom’s old E6B flight computer, because it’s time to go old school with a cross-country planning quiz. (You’ll get your GPS back later.) Take the quiz. More Brainteasers

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works have, on June 2, flown their Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft (ACCA), which they say “has the potential to change aircraft manufacturing as we presently know it, for the better.” ACCA program manager Barth Shenk’s words reinforce that the aircraft itself isn’t designed to be a […]

Neurosurgeon Doyle Borchers’ night flight from Palo Alto to Reno on Aug. 7, 2008, in a Cessna 172S was not authorized by his student pilot certificate and through investigation of his fatal crash that night the FAA and NTSB have found his body contained traces of a wide variety of drugs. The NTSB has not […]

United’s bid to replace up to 150 of the larger airliners in its fleet is poised to take advantage of a lagging economy and likely intended to cause a potential bidding war, but some feel it may be a sign the airline is having difficulty raising capital against older aircraft. The airline, which currently flies […]

A Minnesota jury has found that though the pilot was 25 percent negligent in the January 2003 fatal crash of an SR-22 that killed him and a passenger near Hill City, Minn., Cirrus and the University of North Dakota were 75 percent negligent. The result of the case hinges on the jury’s belief that that […]

A few days after Cirrus recalled 50 employees, Cessna has held true to its word and Friday distributed 700 60-day layoff notices to salaried employees as part of 1,300 cuts announced in April along with suspension of the company’s Columbus business jet program. The total company-wide carnage at Cessna had been sitting at 6,900 layoffs […]