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| 06.01.2009 |
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Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 01, 2009 Kilshanchoe, Ireland SCHWEIZER 269C EI-CZL A/c owned and operated by European Helicopter Academy destroyed when impacted terrain following wire-strike. Two fatalities Both crewmembers fatally...
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| 05.25.2009 |
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Can the Number of Bird Strikes be Reduced?
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 went down into the Hudson River after a mid-air collision with Canada Geese. Luckily all of the passengers and crew were able to evacuate safely. Both engines conked out. Could this have been avoided? Birds are...
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| 05.25.2009 |
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Probe of Fatal Skydiver Accident Continues
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators say the Cessna Caravan 208B (N430A) that crashed in Washington's Cascades killing nine skydivers and the pilot on Oct. 7, 2007 likely didn't experience significant ice buildup. Icing had been consider...
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| 05.25.2009 |
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Safety Rules and Regs
Airworthiness Directives; Rolls-Royce AE 3007A Series Turbofan Engines. Final rule; request for comments. SUMMARY: This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting emergency airworthiness directive (AD) 2009-08-51 that was sent previously...
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| 05.25.2009 |
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Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 01, 2009 Hungry Horse, MT MAULE M4 220C N2007U A/c impacted frozen surface of reservoir Flight departed Glacier Park International Airport (KGPI), Kalispell, MT. One fatality Radar data revealed that a/c...
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| 05.18.2009 |
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Bird Strike Risk on the Rise
The wildlife threat to commercial passenger aircraft has increased so experts on bird strikes are calling for additional measures to raise the safety bar. They believe that the solutions include bird population reduction at airports, new technology and...
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| 05.18.2009 |
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Birds be Gone from Airplane Hangars
The threat that birds can pose to life was vividly demonstrated recently by the safe emergency landing of a U.S. Airways passenger jet in New York City's Hudson River. In Borden, Canada, not far from Toronto, the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace and...
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| 05.18.2009 |
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Pilots Error Blamed in Hawaii Crashes
Pilot error caused a Cessna to crash June 17, 2008 near Pahala, HI killing all three on board, the National Transportation Safety Board has concluded. The Safety Board also found that a pilot of a Hawker Beechcraft 1900C (N410UB), killed January 14, 2008...
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| 05.18.2009 |
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Mechanical Issue a Factor in 2007 Kemper Midair
A student pilot who collided with a veteran Piper PA-30 pilot over the Everglades on December 8, 2007, killing both, was operating a Kemper Aviation Cessna 152 that misreported its altitude to air traffic controllers, according to federal investigators. The...
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| 05.18.2009 |
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Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 04, 2009 Angleton, TX ARGENCE RV-8 N89EA A/c destroyed during impact with trees following a roll during initial climbout from Flyin' Tiger Field (81D). One serious Visual meteorological conditions...
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| 05.11.2009 |
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FAA Drafts Rule for Part 135 CRM Training
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a proposed rule that would require all certificate holders conducting operations under Part 135 to include in their flight training programs crew resource management (CRM) for crewmembers, including pilots...
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| 05.11.2009 |
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Managing the Safety of Corporate Aviation
A member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently made the case for how Safety Management Systems (SMS) can help reduce the number of accidents involving corporate aircraft. In a presentation to the 54th annual Corporate Aviation...
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| 05.11.2009 |
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NTSB Prelim On Neptune CFIT Crash
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a preliminary report on the April 25, 2009 accident that took the lives of three firefighters aboard a Neptune Aviation Services Lockheed P-2V-7 fire fighting aircraft. The P2V-7 (N442NA) went down in...
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| 05.11.2009 |
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Crash Lab is One of a Kind
Students at Arizona's Prescott High School were recently given a hands-on opportunity to learn about on-site accident investigations. Visiting Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's crash lab, Prescott High students were invited to probe of full-scale...
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| 05.11.2009 |
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Safety Rules & Regs
Airworthiness Directives; Airbus A318, A319, A320, and A321. Final rule; correction. SUMMARY: The FAA is correcting a typographical error in an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that was published in the Federal Register on March 24, 2009 (74 FR 12247)...
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| 05.11.2009 |
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Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 08, 2009 Vick, TX BELL 206 N295AE Air Evac EMS a/c received minor damage from apparent bird strike while in cruise flight. Cross country flight departed Hot Hospital, Brady, TX and was en route to...
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| 05.04.2009 |
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Dealing with Headline Grabbing Lawyers
Prosecutors worldwide continue to meddle in ongoing aviation accident investigations hampering efforts to improve air safety and prevent similar accidents in the future. With the trend toward criminalization already having a chilling effect, according to...
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| 05.04.2009 |
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Controllers to the Rescue
A passenger safely landed a King Air (N559DW) at Southwest Florida International, Fort Myers, FL, April 12 after the pilot died at the controls on an apparent heart attack. Federal Aviation Administration officials say the pilot died after takeoff from an...
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| 05.04.2009 |
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Fatal Cessna Crash Under Investigation
A Cessna 421B (N1935G) crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE) on April 17, 2009, slicing the Oakland Park, FL structure down the middle, and killing the pilot. Witnesses reported that the right engine was on...
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| 05.04.2009 |
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Safety & Technology Trends
U.S. & Japan Sign Aviation Safety Pact The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced the signing of a Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) between the U.S. and Japan that allows for the reciprocal certification of aircraft and aviation...
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