The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the collision of two small planes in Sumerduck, Va., that left two people dead and another seriously injured on Monday. (www.examiner.com) Mer...
A Southwest Airlines flight scheduled from Burbank to Las Vegas aborted takeoff this evening due to an unusual noise heard from one of the engines. (www.sacbee.com) Mer...
Around 2 p.m. Monday, Air Canada flight AC001 took off from Pearson Airport en route to Japan, when onlookers noticed the plane was smoking. Air Canada officials say one of the Boeing 777’s engines shut down and the crew carried out a routine emergency procedure that saw the aircraft carrying 318 passengers land safely back at Pearson around 4 p.m. (news.nationalpost.com) Mer...
Malyasia’s fast-growing low-cost carrier AirAsia (AK) is considering ordering more Airbus A320s until its A320neo aircraft arrive, CEO Tony Fernandes told ATW on the sidelines of Airbus Innovation Days in Toulouse, where he took delivery of the carrier’s 100th A320. (atwonline.com) Mer...
4 young men died in a plane crash in St. George, UT early Saturday morning. What a tragic event. Sounds like the pulled up at the end of runway and stalled. (www.thespectrum.com) Mer...
There is starting to be a routine to this: as Airbus and Boeing advance development of new products, their family concepts start to shrink. (www.aviationweek.com) Mer...
Palestinian Airlines is back in the skies after being grounded for seven years by the deepening enmities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Once hailed as a symbol of Palestinian statehood dreams, the carrier is a tiny operation, with just two 48-seat turboprop planes, two weekly flights and a borrowed hub in Egypt. But Palestinians say just being on the map again is what matters. “My hands were shaking when I bought the ticket … and it said the name of the carrier is Palestinian Airlines,’’… (articles.boston.com) Mer...
But if you did, here’s what you’d learn: That almost every step the agency has taken to protect us from airborne terrorists has either been ineffective or wasteful, or both. And that they’ve got the data to prove it. One Freedom to Travel member, who also happens to be a tenured mathematics professor, applied something called Bayes Rule and the concept of Base Rate Fallacy to the TSA’s behavior-detection methods. Stay with me, here. It revealed that even if TSA’s current screening practices were… (www.elliott.org) Mer...
(CNN) -- As families prepare for air travel this coming Memorial Day weekend, United Airlines won't be offering early boarding to families in coach with small children. Joining a handful of other carriers, United made the policy shift in late April with little fanfare. (www.cnn.com) Mer...
After a one-year investigation, NOAA has announced that in 2010 and 2011 National Weather Service employees at its headquarters “reprogrammed funds.” Unnamed persons moved $26 million out of the budget for local warnings and forecasts and $9 million out of the budget to upgrade the agency’s radar to include the dual-polarization capability. The National Weather Service’s long-time director, Jack Hayes, resigned on Friday. (blog.chron.com) Mer...
Hours after a Cessna 172 crashed on a steep and snowy mountainside in Idaho, a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter were all saved by National Guard rescuers and then airlifted to safety! (www.mercurynews.com) Mer...
Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. The New York Democrat is reacting to an Associated Press story last week detailing how families this summer are going to find it harder to sit together without paying fees that can add up to hundreds of dollars over the original ticket price. "Children need access to their parents, and parents need access to their children," Schumer said in a statement. "Unnecessary… (www.sfgate.com) Mer...
About 158 passengers on board Jet Airways Riyadh-Mumbai flight on Monday escaped unhurt after a fire broke out in the left engine of the aircraft on its landing here. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Mer...
