Safety, Security Briefs
NTSB Holds Fuselage Structural Forum The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a safety forum last month, which offered an increased understanding of protection that exist to ensure fuselage...
View ArticleAre Dreamliners Really a Dream Come True?
With the first delivery of the 787 Dreamliner to Japanese airline, All-Nippon Airways (ANA) Sept. 26, aircraft manufacturer Boeing spent years at its Everett, Wash. facility to develop what they call a...
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Sudanese Plane Wheels Jam, Crashes A Fokker 50 aircraft operated by Sudan Airways carrying 45 passengers crashed on Oct. 2 at Khartoum airport, the country's largest city, after its wheels jammed....
View ArticleWindshield Fire Exposes Airbus Faults
European safety regulators may require European operators of Airbus A330s and A320s to replace aircraft windshields following an investigation into a June 2009 Jetstar flight from Japan that was...
View ArticleDIA Rehabilitates Runways, Baggage Screening
Denver International Airport will use $37 million in federal grants for airport improvement projects, including runway rehabilitation work and baggage screening system improvements. FAA and the...
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Plane Crashes in North Carolina, Killing One A single-engine experimental amateur-built (E-AB) aircraft crashed Sunday morning in North Carolina, killing a Jacksonville, Fla. man and seriously injuring...
View ArticleIs Plant Powered Fuel Safe?
Airframe, engine manufacturers, and airlines are investing billions of dollars into biofuel technology, hoping to derive a new formula of powering air travel into a cleaner future. However, as the...
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NTSB Assists Mexican Government in Investigation By request from the Mexican Government, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sent a team of investigators to assist in the investigation of...
View ArticleAccidents & Incidents
DATE AIRCRAFT TYPE NARRATIVE DEATH/INJURY REMARKS Dec. 1, 2011 Fulton, N.Y. Wing John R Wittman Tailwind On Dec. 1, 2011, about 1440 eastern standard time, an experimental amateur-built, Wing Wittman...
View ArticleBabbitt Resigns as FAA Administrator; Huerta Named Interim Chief
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned on Tuesday, following a weekend arrest in Fairfax, Va., for driving under the influence of alcohol. According to a statement posted to the FAA Website late in...
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