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That grainy black-and-white photo purportedly showing Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan alive on an atoll in the Marshall Islands with Earhart’s Lockheed Electra being towed by a Japanese ship? Nope, not even close. It took Internet sleuths little time to discover the very same photo in a Japanese travelogue published a full two years […]

This morning, NBC’s Today show released information from a documentary that will be aired on Sunday night on the History Channel revealing new evidence regarding the mysterious disappearance of famed pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during their attempt to fly around the world in July 1937. During the past 80 years, the […]

NASA says a new quiet supersonic passenger jet it has been designing alongside Lockheed Martin would create a soft “thump” heard on the ground rather than the bone-rattling sonic boom that led to the original U.S. prohibition on supersonic flight over land back in the early 1970s. NASA cleared a “significant milestone” last Friday with […]

While Boeing, Airbus and Lockheed are making huge splashes (and sales) and stealing all the headlines in the opening days of the 2017 Paris Air Show, some smaller companies and aircraft are still getting their share of the spotlight. One such aircraft is the cool and very simple SureFly personal helicopter and VTOL aircraft, which […]

The 2017 International Paris Air Show kicked off in style on Monday, as French President Emmanuel Macron flew in aboard Airbus’ A400M military transporter. His arrival was followed by the always-exciting Patrouille de France aerial display team, as well as Airbus’ massive A380. It was a necessary spectacle for Airbus, which is using the event […]

In late 2010, experienced pilot and U.S. senator James Inhofe was issued a pilot violation by the FAA. Displeased with the violation process, he created and sponsored the Pilots Bill of Rights 1 and 2. The NTSB is supposed to be an impartial entity to which a pilot may appeal a certificate suspension or revocation. For decades, aviation attorneys have known this is not reality.

The U.S. Air Force’s 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona said yesterday that F-35 training flights will remain grounded until further notice due to five separate incidents highlighting “irregularities” in the pilots’ oxygen supplies. The grounding was initially planned to be only short-term when it was first announced last Friday. The […]

Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation Calvin L. Scovel III’s recent report to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure about the FAA’s progress in modernizing the nation’s airspace might add fuel to the fire to those supporting the effort to separate the U.S. air traffic control system from the 60-year old agency. […]

Its taken for granted that when you fly a light aircraft, you take care of everything from preflight planning to all the in-flight tasks and securing the aircraft afterwards. All decisions are usually left to one person. This is such a common routine for many that the risks of whats known as Single-Pilot Resource Management are often overlooked, especially due to the external pressures that are often present for any flight. In this accident report, the combination of a sole pilots pressure to get home and poor weather conditions had tragic results.

While we certainly dont need to examine weather accidents to remind us that weather can be a killer, reviewing them can be a good teacher. The accidents well review attracted only a couple paragraphs in the local newspaper and were quickly forgotten, but every incident has the potential to save lives. Well try to understand their story by digging into radar and weather data and poring through the NTSB archives and try to find just how these pilots got themselves in trouble and what lessons we can learn.