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June 15, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks Thursday, May 7, 2009 Veracruz, Mexico CESSNA 340 XB-CUC A/c crashed while returning to land after takeoff at General Heriberto Jara Corona International Airport, Veracruz, Mexico. Three fatalities, one...
June 8, 2009
ADS-B Can Reduce Runway Incursions
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Member Kitty Higgins believes Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology can play a major role in reducing the threat of runway incursions. She recently noted that such a system is already being...
June 8, 2009
Full Disclosure at Safety Board
As of June 1, 2009, all accident investigation public dockets are available on the National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) public website (http://www.ntsb.gov) in accordance with the NTSB Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Improvement Plan. The NTSB said...
June 8, 2009
ERAU Creates Wildlife Risk Management Center
The Jan. 15, 2009 ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River vividly illustrated the dangers of midair collisions between birds and aircraft. But what led to the so-called "miracle on the Hudson" happens more often than the public...
June 8, 2009
Improving Airport Ground Safety
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract for the Low-Cost Ground Surveillance (LCGS) program to heighten situational awareness of airport surface traffic. The value of the reward was not disclosed. The contract...
June 8, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
Contract for Airspace Concept Evaluation NASA has selected Raytheon to receive an Airspace Concept Evaluation System, or ACES, follow-on contract valued at $29 million. This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that begins June 1. The base contract lasts two...
June 8, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks May 04, 2009 High Island 138 GM BELL 407 N164RL Pilot was approaching offshore oil platform and positioned a/c to land "into the wind." Intended flight path crossed over a crane with windsock on top...
June 1, 2009
Battle Brewing Over Loran
U.S. lawmakers and industry experts are critical of President Obama's plan to shut down a decades-old navigation system that could serve as a backup to the Global Positioning System (GPS), the backbone of the Federal Aviation Administration's Next Generation...
June 1, 2009
Air Collision Fears Surround Drones
Major advances in unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology has advocates clamoring to use more drones for everything from coastal patrols and border surveillance to tracking natural disasters. But fear of midair collisions is holding up any broad expansion...
June 1, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
AAIB Final Report on B-737-300 Stall The U.K. AAIB recently released the final report of their investigation into a serious incident involving a Boeing 737-300 in September 2007. The Boeing 737-300 was on approach to Bournemouth Airport following a routine...
June 1, 2009
Safety Rule & Regs
Airworthiness Directives; Boeing Model 747-100, 747-100B, 747-100B SUD, 747-200B, 747-200C, 747-200F, 747-300, 747-400, 747-400D, 747-400F, 747SR, and 747SP. Final rule; correction. SUMMARY: The FAA is correcting typographical errors in an existing...
June 1, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 01, 2009 Kilshanchoe, Ireland SCHWEIZER 269C EI-CZL A/c owned and operated by European Helicopter Academy destroyed when impacted terrain following wire-strike. Two fatalities Both crewmembers fatally...
May 25, 2009
Can the Number of Bird Strikes be Reduced?
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 went down into the Hudson River after a mid-air collision with Canada Geese. Luckily all of the passengers and crew were able to evacuate safely. Both engines conked out. Could this have been avoided? Birds are...
May 25, 2009
Safety and Technology Trends
Digital Map System Earns FAA Certification Avalex Technologies recently earned FAA certification of its Digital Map System. The Supplemental Type Certificate, or STC, awarded to Avalex by the Federal Aviation Administration is for work done for the Eurocopter...
May 25, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 01, 2009 Hungry Horse, MT MAULE M4 220C N2007U A/c impacted frozen surface of reservoir Flight departed Glacier Park International Airport (KGPI), Kalispell, MT. One fatality Radar data revealed that a/c...
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