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amarack petitioned the NTSB on January 3, noting the agency made “erroneous findings that are unsupported by the factual record, inconsistent with engineering principles or proven to be physically impossible.”

Authorities from Sweden and the United Kingdom wanted more emphasis on crew mistakes.

Glen de Vries and his instructor died a week after de Vries traveled to space with actor William Shatner.

Industry experts say the trillion-dollar package can help everything from pandemic rebounding, to technology, to community growth.

Less flying brought fewer fatalities in 2020, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s annual study of U.S. civil aviation.

In the proposed rule, the NTSB seeks to identify commercial space as a unique mode of transportation.

One person was killed and an aircraft destroyed in an accident in Chattahoochee, Florida, on October 31. According to the preliminary report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board, the aircraft was a Van’s Aircraft RV-4. The RV-4 is an experimental aircraft; it is not known if the pilot, the sole person aboard, was also […]

A Cessna P210 that went down during takeoff earlier this month at an Atlanta-area airport had a relatively recent engine overhaul and conversion, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The October 8 accident involving at Dekalb-Peachtree Airport (PDK) occurred shortly after 1 p.m., killing the pilot and three passengers on […]

Four people, including the two pilots, were killed Thursday after the business jet they were on board struck a building in Farmington, Connecticut. The Cessna Citation 560X, which was headed to Dare County Regional Airport in Manteo, North Carolina, crashed around 10 a.m., shortly after takeoff from Robertson Field Airport in Plainville, Connecticut. No one […]

Jennifer Homendy has been sworn in as the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, becoming the 15th leader of the federal agency that is tasked by Congress to investigate civil aviation and other transportation accidents. “We are in a time of dynamic change and growth within transportation—from automated vehicles to commercial space,” Homendy said […]