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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.

The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday said Roy Halladay’s Icon A5 was recovered in shallow waters in the Gulf of Mexico near New Port Richey, Florida, after a “high-energy impact” killed the 40-year-old former Major League pitcher. NTSB investigators want to review video shot moments before the crash and talk with eyewitnesses who have […]

The National Transportation Safety Board this week called upon the FAA to treat balloon pilots like all others by requiring them to possess a current medical certificate. Currently, balloon pilots are exempt from medical certificate requirement in order to conduct commercial operations. In an abstract of the soon-to-be-released final report, the NTSB took the FAA […]

Bruce Landsberg has been a general aviation safety advocate for decades by his own admission. “My interest in safety actually began when I was a young CFI,” he told Flying yesterday. Landsberg was recently named as a White House nominee to the National Transportation Safety Board, an organization Landsberg calls the “preeminent accident investigation body […]

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Stop off at the USA.gov website and you’ll find a long list of government organizations that halted production of their podcasts, from the U.S. Air Force, to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and even the White House. But the NTSB plans to soon join federal podcast survivors like the National Institute of Health and NASA […]

For decades prior to the advent of electronic instrumentation, flight instructors regularly taught pilots not to trust fuel gauges lest a failure leave them unknowingly running on empty. Despite more accurate measurement systems, fuel mismanagement still ranks number six on the NTSB’s list of GA accident categories, accounting for roughly 50 accidents each year, some […]