Battle Brewing Over Loran
U.S. lawmakers and industry experts are critical of President Obama's plan to shut down a decades-old navigation system that could serve as a backup to the Global Positioning System (GPS), the backbone of the Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). The U.S... [read more]
Gulfstream International Hit with $1.3M Fine
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a $1.3 million civil penalty from Florida-based Gulfstream International Airlines for alleged violations of Federal Aviation Regulations, including faulty record keeping and faulty maintenance. The violations include improper scheduling of flight crew...
ASAP Reinstated at Comair
Comair pilots and management, together with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), recently signed a memorandum of understanding to reinstate the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) for pilots at Comair. The original safety program was terminated by Comair in October 2008 after concerns were raised...
Aviation Unions Raise Concerns
The nation's aviation labor unions told Congress recently that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must improve its labor management relations after a contentious eight years under the Bush administration while at the same time address flight crew fatigue and tighten monitoring of foreign repair...
Air Collision Fears Surround Drones
Major advances in unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology has advocates clamoring to use more drones for everything from coastal patrols and border surveillance to tracking natural disasters. But fear of midair collisions is holding up any broad expansion of their domestic use. Federal Aviation...
Reducing Fatigue-related Aviation Accidents
A new Web-based program is helping military pilots and aircrews "FlyAwake," thanks to the combined efforts of the D.C. Air National Guard's 201st Airlift Squadron and the National Guard Bureau. "We were noticing the number of fatigue-related mishaps were quite high, and we needed to do...
Wings That Waggle
Wings which redirect air to waggle sideways could cut airline fuel bills by 20 percent according to research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Airbus. The new approach, which promises to dramatically reduce mid-flight drag, uses tiny air powered jets which redirect...
Safety & Technology Trends
AAIB Final Report on B-737-300 Stall The U.K. AAIB recently released the final report of their investigation into a serious incident involving a Boeing 737-300 in September 2007. The Boeing 737-300 was on approach to Bournemouth Airport following a routine passenger flight from Faro, Portugal. Early in the...
Security Shortlines
Researchers Discover New Explosives Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered never-before-seen polymorphic crystalline structures of triacetone-triperoxide (TATP), the easy-to- make but difficult to detect explosive increasingly used by terrorists worldwide. TATP was...
Safety Rule & Regs
Airworthiness Directives; Boeing Model 747-100, 747-100B, 747-100B SUD, 747-200B, 747-200C, 747-200F, 747-300, 747-400, 747-400D, 747-400F, 747SR, and 747SP. Final rule; correction. SUMMARY: The FAA is correcting typographical errors in an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that was published previously...
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 injured. Local flight originated from Weston (EIWT)...
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