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A 20-year-old Jamaican, described by authorities as a “mentally challenged youngster” was nabbed by police early Monday after he took six members of the flight crew of a CanJet Boeing 737 hostage late Sunday in Montego Bay and demanded to be flown to Cuba. None of the hostages were hurt when police stormed the aircraft […]

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In this economy you have to go with your strengths and if there is one thing Thompson, Manitoba, Canada has in spades it’s reliably frigid temperatures. The mining town about 600 miles north of Winnipeg (no slouch in the cold department, either) often sees temperatures colder than -40 for weeks at a time in a […]

If you’ve been wondering what was going on in Marcus Schrenker’s head when he bailed out of his turboprop Malibu over Georgia last January, you may be able to read all about it. The former Indiana money manager told the Pensacola News Journal in a jailhouse letter that he’s thinking about writing a book about […]

If you’ve had any work done by “The Plane Man” in Casa Grande, Ariz., you might want to have it checked by an A&P before your next flight. A federal grand jury has charged Glen Forsyth, 43, with five felony offenses resulting from a 100-hour inspection on an Alon Ercoupe in July of 2008. A […]

Aviation’s busiest celebrity spokesman, actor Harrison Ford, is taking on another role and the script appears to involve as heroic a plot as any of his day job parts. AOPA will hold a news conference Monday at 10 a.m. in Washington, D.C., to announce the General Aviation Serves America campaign. Details are under wraps until […]

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The young man who jumped from King Air 200 over Canada’s Arctic last Wednesday had been held the night before under the country’s Mental Health Act in Yellowknife and was being flown home to Cambridge Bay by Adlair Aviation as a favor to the family. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called to a Yellownknife […]

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. The greatest lineup of the big names in air shows ever assembled will be at Cecil Airfield in Jacksonville, Fla. April 18-19 in a special benefit for Alan Henley, the leader of the […]

Every pilot likes to see a new version of a favorite product, but what really gets attention is something completely new. At Aero Friedrichshafen earlier this month in Germany, there was plenty of innovation going on — as AVweb‘s contributor Graeme Peppler reported from the scene — and this week, EAA created a list of […]