Plane crash in Southeast Washington The FAA is investigating a plane crash that happened in southeast Washington Saturday COLFAX, Wash. – A pilot is recovering from serious injuries after crashing his small plane in Whitman County Friday afternoon, officials say. According to the Whitman County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO), deputies, Washington State Patrol troopers and emergency...
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Two people and a dog were rescued by good Samaritans after their plane crashed into the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, officials said. City officials said two occupants and a dog were on board. They’re all out of the plane and were brought ashore to a local boatyard. New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said the...
An oversight during maintenance work three years earlier most likely caused the engine failure that led to the crash-landing of a small plane in a Moosic residential neighborhood in 2020, federal investigators concluded. × This page requires Javascript. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your...
NBAA’s Tax Committee and regulatory issues advisory group have jointly created a new, members-only resource on exporting aircraft from the U.S. Dubbed the “Guide on Exporting Aircraft from the United States,” NBAA senior director of public policy and advocacy Scott O’Brien said the document includes detailed scenarios that reflect how business aircraft transactions occur, providing...
New York, NY – In catastrophic events, victims of personal injury have relied on Kreindler & Kreindler LLP to pursue damages or discover the cause of an accident since 1950. As one of the world’s leading aviation accident law firms, the attorneys advocate for their clients to help them find the answers they need most...
Excessive play in some brake parts was the probable cause of a runway accident involving air show icon Patty Wagstaff and her V-Tail Bonanza at St. Augustine Airport in 2019. The final report on the mishap, which resulted in minor injuries for Wagstaff and her passenger, an instructor at her flight school based at St....
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June 29, 2022 (Photo: MD Davis, NHC Fire Rscue) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — New Hanover County Fire Rescue is on the scene of a small plane crash near Pilots Ridge, according to MD Davis with NHC Fire Rescue. According to a spokesperson, the aircraft ran off a private runway and into a pond. Both people...
A coalition of six general aviation organizations on Wednesday sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urging the Department of Transportation to work with them on addressing what they called pressing congestion issues in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). The letter—signed by AOPA president Mark Baker, EAA chairman Jack Pelton, GAMA president Pete Bunce,...
NTSB final report on Croce’s 2020 crash details helicopter’s midair breakup | News 4 Buffalo Skip to content ✕ × Close Ad Click Here to see the Full/Original Article
BLAIR — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating after a 60-year-old Vietnam era military helicopter crashed Wednesday, June 22, on W.Va. 17 near the foot of Blair Mountain, killing all six occupants. The helicopter was a 1962 Bell UH-1B, commonly known as a “Huey.” It was one of the earliest Huey helicopters to see...
SAN CARLOS (KRON) – The San Carlos Fire Department is responding to an incident at the airport in the Peninsula city amid a report of a plane crash, it has confirmed to KRON4. A small plane went down at the San Carlos Airport. It landed on its wheels but did hit a fence shortly before...
NBAA has secured a limited exemption for certain association members from the FAA requirement to begin reporting pilot records created on or after June 10 to the Pilot Records Database (PRD) within 30 days. The exemption applies to NBAA member companies conducting Part 91K and 135 operations that hold OpSpec A025 or MA205, respectively, for electronic training...
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Grimes leads government affairs for NBAA, advocating for legislation that will enhance the business aviation industry. National Business Aviation Association Grimes dreamed of becoming a Supreme Court justice, and never thought she’d land in aviation. After ‘stumbling into aviation,’ she now helps shape government policy for the industry. Grimes says she ‘caught the bug’ for...
AVweb’s General Aviation Accident Bulletin is taken from the pages of our sister publication, Aviation Safety magazine. All the reports listed here are preliminary and include only initial factual findings about crashes. You can learn more about the final probable cause on the NTSB’s website at www.ntsb.gov. Final reports appear about a year after the...
Families are working with industry insiders to press for new safety precautions and a review of production practices for the aircraft. It has been 18 months since Boeing’s 737 Max was allowed to start flying passengers again, but some of the families that lost loved ones in a pair of fatal crashes of the plane...
An ITA Airways A330 apparently grazed an Air France Boeing 777 at JFK earlier this month and then carried on with its flight to Rome. According to Simpleflying, the ITA crew was warned the collision had taken place by ATC but dismissed it and kept climbing over the Atlantic. The Air France crew definitely felt...
Whether you are a Golden State Warrior or Boston Celtic, the postseason journey you just completed is a testament to the NBA being the best basketball league in the world. The Warriors prevailed; the Celtics fell short. Yet both franchises brought the joy of basketball to a global audience. But sorrow sometimes accompanies the sports...
NBAA is praising the formation of the bipartisan Congressional Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Caucus, which aims to educate members about this emerging technology. Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-California), an ATP pilot and CFI, and Jimmy Panetta (D-California) are co-chairs of the caucus. According to NBAA, Reps. Garret Graves (R-Louisiana) and Dina Titus (D-Nevada) were also instrumental...
When I first broached the subject of a looming pilot shortage at NBAA–BACE in 2013, people in the audience told me I was crazy and said it would never happen. As I recall, I was even heckled by a few tenured pilots in attendance. Well, it has indeed happened, and the situation continues to snowball....
As the debate over the future of the East Hampton Airport skyrockets with an intensity fueled by a torrent of lawsuits and talk of closure, the facility’s future appears cloudier than ever. It’s been more than a month since a Suffolk County court judge temporarily grounded the Town of East Hampton’s plans to close the...
SkyWest may have found a neat workaround to sustain scheduled service to small markets while filling the flight decks with its most experienced captains and least experienced FOs. The regional giant has created a small charter subsidiary called SkyWest Charter LLC (SWC) and applied for a Part 135 commuter air carrier authorization. It proposes to...
NBAA presented its American Spirit Award to Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon), the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee who is retiring at the end of his term after serving in Congress for 36 years. The longest-serving House member from Oregon, DeFazio has served on T&I throughout his congressional career. “Our country has benefitted...
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With its plans to convert East Hampton Airport (KHTO) into a private-use East Hampton Town Airport (KJPX) at least temporarily thwarted by legal action, the Long Island, New York town has requested that its attorneys begin the process of shutting down the airport entirely. Facing what it described as a “mountain of litigation” from stakeholders and groups...
Date: June 22, 2022 Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Location: Westchester County Airport 240 Airport Rd, White Plains, NY Add to Calendar: IN-PERSON EVENT: NBAA’s 2022 White Plains Regional Forum will bring current and prospective business aircraft owners, operators, manufacturers, customers and other industry personnel together for a one-day event. Previous articleInvestor & Entrepreneur...
Kristie Greco Johnson, who was chief of staff for House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon), is joining NBAA as senior v-p of government affairs. Johnson will assume her new role on June 13. Johnson is bringing 25 years of government and political experience to her position, including having previously served as senior...
