Accidents

We need to do better. Here’s a good place to start.

A Cessna twin overtakes a Cessna 152 at Watsonville Airport.

Copilot ‘got up from his seat, removed his headset, apologized, and departed the airplane via the aft ramp door.’

An unoccupied airplane stalled and spun to impact.

Two airplanes, one runway

Headset, kneeboard—seat belt cutter? A flight instructor from Seattle, Washington, has added the latter to his must-haves when he flies, after he experienced an uncommanded loss of engine power and ended up putting the airplane into the water in West Seattle.

Co-pilot departs aircraft without a parachute before emergency landing.

A Pennsylvania court’s dismissal of Grady v. Aero-Tech Services should give flight schools and instructors a welcome sigh of relief, but it doesn’t give blanket immunity for educational malpractice.

It happens with alarming frequency: You read a story in your local newspaper about someone pushing for the closure of the local airport. Perhaps it’s an election year, or locals accuse the airport of being solely a playground for the rich, a danger to public health, and/or an economic drain on the community.  There are […]

The safety review Monday comes after five Marines and a Navy pilot were killed in aircraft accidents last week.