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The gospel on turn-backs after a power loss just after takeoff is to continue straight ahead, no matter how uninviting the terrain looks.

A Navion crash in November 2016 could have been avoided by breaking an old habit.

As the investigation into last month’s wing separation on a Piper Arrow near Daytona Beach continues, the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday issued an update that points to a number of wing fractures. The PA28R-201 was owned and operated by Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University as a Part 91 instructional aircraft at the time of the […]

Loss of control occurs when an airplane unintentionally departs from normal flight, usually with fatal consequences. LOC remains, in fact, the largest single source of fatalities in aviation. LOC remains at the top of the NTSB’s 10 Most Wanted List of problems in search of solutions. In an effort to mitigate LOC accidents the National […]

Thousands of people read reports of last July’s near collision on the ground at San Francisco International Airport when an Air Canada flight nearly landed on a taxiway. Until the NTSB last week opened the docket of information related to the incident, almost no one realized just how close all the aircraft involved came to […]

During initial interviews with NTSB officials, the pilot of the Airbus AS350B2 that crashed into New York’s East River on March 11 was unable to recall how many photographic flights he had conducted on the day of the accident. He could only remember that his duty day began about 11 a.m. local time and that […]

Do you know the difference between civil twilight, nautical twilight and astronomical twilight?

Although it will still be many months before the NTSB is ready to determine a probable cause in the May 15, 2017 loss of control accident of a Learjet 35A during a circling approach to Teterboro Airport (TEB), the Board’s investigation docket opened last week revealed a number of concerns about the two pilots aboard […]

Paul Schuda, director of the NTSB Training Center in Ashburn, Virginia, died last Saturday when the Cessna 210 he was riding in crashed in southeastern Indiana approximately 40 miles northwest of Cincinnati. The aircraft impacted the ground in a heavily wooded area at approximately 9 p.m. local time. The accident also claimed the life of […]

Clouds are mostly harmless, but sometimes they turn on you.