U.S. Airline Pilot Retirement Age Raised to 65
U.S. President Bush on Dec. 13 signed a bill to raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots to 65, allowing senior pilots to fly an additional five years. The U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved the measure earlier in the week. The Fair Treatment for Experienced... [read more]
Report on 2005 Air France Crash at Pearson International
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on Dec. 12 released its report on the Aug. 2, 2005 accident involving Air France Flight 358, which ran off the end of a runway at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International and crashed into a ravine. In ruling on the Airbus A340 crash, the aviation safety...
Multi-crew Pilot Licensing Draws Fire
The International Air Transport Association's (IATA) recent warning that the world's airlines will face a severe pilot shortage unless industry and governments work together to change training and qualification practices included a strong pitch for Multi-crew Pilot licensing (MPL) training programs. IATA...
Fatigue Gets Everybody's Attention
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently added three safety recommendations on air traffic controller fatigue to the existing aviation issue area of its 'Most Wanted' transportation safety improvements list. The Safety Board is asking the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop a...
EMS Helicopter Operations Remains a Risky Business
Searchers last week found the remains of a flight nurse and some wreckage of an emergency medical services helicopter that crashed Monday, Dec. 3 while enroute from Cordova, AK for the Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. Still missing at presstime were the patient going to Anchorage for cancer...
F-15s Undergo Extensive Inspections
U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel are now performing methodical and time-intensive inspections on all Boeing F-15A/B/C/D Eagle fighters in the wake of the F-15 grounding order issued on December. 3. The F-15 stand-down follows additional information received from the ongoing investigation of a Nov. 2...
Ten Fingers, Ten Toes
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now collecting additional fingerprints from international visitors arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport. The change is part of the department's upgrade from two- to 10-fingerprint collection in order to enhance security and fingerprint matching...
How Safe Are the Skies?
Issues, Fears and Remedies in Air Safety Today A Webinar presented by Aviation Today Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon. (EST) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the scheduled airlines repeat this mantra, over and over again: air travel has never been safer. But is it? To be sure...
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks 23 Nov 1920Z Yellowknife Canada DHC8-103 of Regional 1 Airlines Ltd TSH 478 was 200 NM north of Yellowknife on a flight to Taloyoak when the crew declared an emergency and returned to YZF due to #2 engine oil pressure fluctuations. (PW 120A). nil Shortly...
Safety News in Brief
Date Incident 14 Dec Inaugurating 'Air Safety Week' at a function in New Delhi, Indian Civil Aviation Secretary Ashok Chawla said the campaign would aim at "reducing the current mental stress among air travelers" created by media reports. "Many of them carry with them an anxiety... Whether...
Security Roundup
Date Incident 13 Dec A security screener at Kennedy International Airport trying to see his parents off on a trip boarded their plane without a ticket or a boarding pass Thursday and was arrested, authorities said. The man boarded an Etihad Airways flight bound for the United Arab Emirates, and when the...
Note to Air Safety Week Readers
With the advent of the overwhelmingly busy holiday season, Air Safety Week will not be published on...
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