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At about 1020 Mountain time, the Part 135 commercial cargo flight collided with flat open terrain.Visual conditions prevailed; the aircraft was operating on an IFR flight plan. The aircraft was destroyed by impact damage and a post-crash fire. The Airline Transport pilot-in-command and another deadheading pilot were fatally injured. The flight originated from Salt Lake City, Utah, about one hour prior to the accident and was destined for Friedman Memorial (SUN), Hailey, Idaho. After executing the RNAV (GPS) Runway 31 approach to SUN, the flight was cleared to land while still in instrument conditions. There were no further communications. The pilot of a Cessna Citation 525, who flew the same…

Last April, an instrument-rated private pilot took off from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in his SR22 bound for Palm Beach International. It was solid IFR, 400 overcast. The pilot was experienced in Cirrus airplanes-he was a founder of the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association-he regularly flew such IFR flights, and he knew his airplane well. […]

Your only engine, that is. Here are three pilots with happy-ending engine-failure tales. Their advice: plan for it, train for it and fly the airplane.

Recent research confirms what weve always known: mid-airs are predictable and avoidable. You just need to know where and how to look.

If you became incapacitated, would your passenger know how to get the plane back on the ground? Heres what you can do to improve the odds.

Last year when a Citation II on approach to Amsterdam flew through tennis-ball sized hail at 10,000 feet and 250 knots, it emerged, as one might guess, far worse for the wear. As you can see here, the encounter caused heavy damage to the airplane’s nose, wiping out the radome. Also visible on the nose […]

Readers sound off on recent articles involving traffic patterns and aircraft loading while finding a few mistakes.

There has been much speculation about the safety of the many new mini jets now in development. It shocks me that there are more predictions about how these small jets will change aviation, including the safety record, than there is speculation about whether the airplanes can even be delivered at the prices some promise. But […]

It was a windy Sunday in March. I didn’t fly and I wasn’t happy about it. I could have flown if I had really wanted to, but I just didn’t get to go. My oldest daughter, Alix, was here for a weekend in Florida with her very likeable husband, Rob, and we’d been busy with […]

Trim makes life behind the yoke better, but only if you know your system and its working as advertised. Check the mechanicals and tune up your technique