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Five killed as Med Flight Lear hits mountain in night VMC

Shortly after midnight on October 24, a Learjet 35A, a Med Flight air ambulance flight, crashed in mountainous terrain eight miles east of San Diego Brown

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February 6, 2007

1991 Hawker Crash: Back to the Future

On March 16, 1991, all 10 people aboard a Hawker, including seven members of singer Reba McEntire’s band as well as her tour manager, were killed when the

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February 6, 2007

ATSB implicates icing in 2002 Saab 340 incident

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) listed it as merely a serious incident but considered it significant enough to issue a full report.

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February 6, 2007

King Air Survives Structural Damage

On February 2, Super King Air B200 N777AJ survived an uncontrolled descent and structural damage after the inner ply of the windshield cracked at 27,000 fe

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February 6, 2007

Company Says Milwaukee Accident ATC’s Fault

The owner of Freight Runner’s Express, the cargo company whose Beech 99 and Cessna 402 collided on the ground at General Mitchell International Airport in

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February 6, 2007

Lawsuits Filed in Jetstream Crash

The families of at least five people who died in the October 19 crash of Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 have filed lawsuits against Corporate Airlines and

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February 5, 2007

Pilots blamed in Brest CRJ crash

The June 2003 fatal crash of a Bombardier CRJ100 operated by Brit Air (a subsidiary of Air France) near Brest airport in France, was caused mainly by the p

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February 5, 2007

NTSB Debunks Ice-bridging Hypothesis

The NTSB’s debunking of the ice-bridging hypothesis in the conclusions of its investigation of the Feb.

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February 2, 2007

Avionics training software now offered direct to pilots

For more than 10 years, Minneapolis-based Aerosim Technologies (www.flyaerosim.com) has been providing low-co

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February 2, 2007

Accident spurs town to chip in for tree removal

The FAA and the state of Connecticut were willing to pay 97 percent of the $4.5 million price tag to have trees removed from around Danbury Municipal Airpo

Regulations and Government

February 2, 2007

Freezing Rain Cited in Caravan Crash

An FAA preliminary report on the January 17 fatal crash of a Canadian airline-operated Cessna Caravan near Lake Erie’s Pelee Island, Toronto, indicates tha

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February 1, 2007

DHL crew saves A300B4 after SAM hit on takeoff

Though unconfirmed by DHL, an unofficial collection of photos and text circulating on the Internet sheds chilling light on the November 22 missile attack a

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February 1, 2007

Pilot, Instructor Blamed in Fatal Training Accident

Performing intentional stalls at too low an altitude and the flight instructor’s “inadequate supervision” were blamed by the NTSB for the crash on Septembe

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February 1, 2007

NTSB report on AA 587 spreads blame

While the NTSB determined that “unnecessary and too aggressive” rudder inputs by the first officer broke the vertical stabilizer off American Airlines Flig

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February 1, 2007

Two Finished, One To Go

With the recent issuance of a probable cause, the NTSB has completed its investigation into the second of two cargo Falcon 20 accidents on the same day by

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February 1, 2007

Notam Reported Snow on Runway

In the January 6 incident in which a Gulfstream III landed on a taxiway between the two parallel runways at Denver Centennial Airport, notam 01-17 advised

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February 1, 2007