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 and flight attendants. The proposed rule would... [read more]
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 Safety Seminar (CASS), Safety Board Member Debbie...
Report IDs EMS Chopper Issues
The helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) industry's overlapping oversight and poor organization has led to safety problems and last year's record number of fatalities, according to a recently released safety review. The groundbreaking report released by the Flight Safety Foundation identifies eight...
New Tactic for Controller Contract Talks
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in addressing an Aero Club audience, announced the appointment of former FAA Administrator Jane Garvey to oversee the intractable labor dispute between the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) underway since the...
U.S. ATC Systems Under Cyber Attack
The nation's air traffic control systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks with breaches allowing hackers to access personnel records and network servers, according to an audit performed by the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General. The IG report concluded that although most of the...
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 Utah, near Stockton Pass, with heavy fog reported...
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 accurate mockups of real crashes with the guidance of...
Airmen, Marines Work Together to Test Load Helicopters
Playing a game of inches, a team of airmen and Marines at Travis AFB, CA, recently worked together to test load two Marine helicopters into a C-5C Galaxy transport. With inches to spare, airmen from the 60th Aerial Port Squadron and Marines from the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Training Squadron-303 and...
Safety & Technology Trends
NextGen Contract to Study NAS Needs Raytheon has been awarded a seven-month, $2.3 million contract to study the NextGen Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance architecture and determine the National Airspace System's needs for 2018 to 2025. "The next generation of airspace management...
Security Shortlines
Smuggling Birds in Pants A man was recently charged with smuggling songbirds into the U.S. by hiding more than a dozen of them in an elaborate, custom-tailored pair of leggings during a flight from Vietnam to Los Angeles International Airport. The man was arrested after an inspector spotted bird feathers and...
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). The error resulted in publication of an incorrect...
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 Shannon Medical Center (03TS), San Angelo, TX. No...
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