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June 8, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks May 04, 2009 High Island 138 GM BELL 407 N164RL Pilot was approaching offshore oil platform and positioned a/c to land "into the wind." Intended flight path crossed over a crane with windsock on top...
June 1, 2009
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...
June 1, 2009
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...
June 1, 2009
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...
June 1, 2009
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...
June 1, 2009
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...
May 25, 2009
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...
May 25, 2009
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...
May 25, 2009
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...
May 25, 2009
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...
May 18, 2009
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...
May 18, 2009
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...
May 18, 2009
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...
May 18, 2009
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...
May 18, 2009
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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