A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

Cessna 208B, Northwest Territories, Canada, Oct. 4, 2011–The Grand Caravan went down in rain approximately 125 miles east of Yellowknife and 25 miles from its destination of the remote community of Lutselk’e. According to authorities, the pilot decided to turn the aircraft around for unexplained reasons. Contact with the turboprop single, which operated as a regularly scheduled Air Tindi flight, was lost soon after.&nbsp; The pilot and one passenger died in the crash, which destroyed the aircraft, while the remaining two passengers suffered serious injuries. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating the accident.
Cessna 208B, South Cerney, UK, Sept. 24, 2011–The turboprop single, operated by a skydiving company, overshot the runway while landing at RAF South Cerney Airfield. According to reports, the Grand Caravan ended up wedged in a hedge; the pilot, the sole person on board, suffered minor injuries in the accident.

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