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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 […]

Pilot Tom Dafoe was reportedly advised twice to lower his airplane’s nose because he looked slow.

Learning how to access weather reports and interpret them is a foundational lesson.

Flight data reportedly indicates that someone in the cockpit of a China Eastern Airlines flight intentionally crashed the Boeing 737-800 on March 21, killing all 132 people on board, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the FAA is partially to blame for the 2019 fatal accident involving an air tour helicopter in Hawaii.  The NTSB suggests if the FAA had not delayed the installation of weather cameras in the region, the pilot might have been alerted to dangerous conditions and not continued the […]

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Feds say former Olympic snowboarder turned social media star Trevor Jacob faked engine trouble for a stunt.

If you are faced with a problem right after takeoff, you should be prepared to make the right decision.

On a clear June afternoon in 2020, two senior Navy pilots left Jasper, Alabama (KJFX), headed for Pensacola, Florida, 200 nm distant, where they were based. They were flying a Piper Turbo Lance of which the left seat pilot was a co-owner. After a 30-minute cruise climb, the Lance leveled out at 15,000 feet. About […]

France’s Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) is investigating what it describes as a “serious incident” aboard an Air France Boeing 777-300(ER) during approach at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (LFPG).