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May 18, 2009
Bird Strike Risk on the Rise
The wildlife threat to commercial passenger aircraft has increased so experts on bird strikes are calling for additional measures to raise the safety bar. They believe that the solutions include bird population reduction at airports, new technology and...
May 18, 2009
Birds be Gone from Airplane Hangars
The threat that birds can pose to life was vividly demonstrated recently by the safe emergency landing of a U.S. Airways passenger jet in New York City's Hudson River. In Borden, Canada, not far from Toronto, the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace and...
May 18, 2009
Pilot Error Causes EMS Chopper Midair in Arizona
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the probable cause of a midair collision between two emergency medical service (EMS) helicopters last year was failure of both pilots to see and avoid the other helicopter on approach to a...
May 18, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 04, 2009 Angleton, TX ARGENCE RV-8 N89EA A/c destroyed during impact with trees following a roll during initial climbout from Flyin' Tiger Field (81D). One serious Visual meteorological conditions...
May 11, 2009
FAA Drafts Rule for Part 135 CRM Training
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a proposed rule that would require all certificate holders conducting operations under Part 135 to include in their flight training programs crew resource management (CRM) for crewmembers, including pilots...
May 11, 2009
Report IDs EMS Chopper Issues
The helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) industry's overlapping oversight and poor organization has led to safety problems and last year's record number of fatalities, according to a recently released safety review. The groundbreaking report released...
May 11, 2009
Crash Lab is One of a Kind
Students at Arizona's Prescott High School were recently given a hands-on opportunity to learn about on-site accident investigations. Visiting Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's crash lab, Prescott High students were invited to probe of full-scale...
May 11, 2009
Airmen, Marines Work Together to Test Load Helicopters
Playing a game of inches, a team of airmen and Marines at Travis AFB, CA, recently worked together to test load two Marine helicopters into a C-5C Galaxy transport. With inches to spare, airmen from the 60th Aerial Port Squadron and Marines from the Marine...
May 11, 2009
Safety Rules & Regs
Airworthiness Directives; Airbus A318, A319, A320, and A321. Final rule; correction. SUMMARY: The FAA is correcting a typographical error in an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that was published in the Federal Register on March 24, 2009 (74 FR 12247)...
May 11, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 08, 2009 Vick, TX BELL 206 N295AE Air Evac EMS a/c received minor damage from apparent bird strike while in cruise flight. Cross country flight departed Hot Hospital, Brady, TX and was en route to...
May 4, 2009
Safety Measures for EMS Choppers: the Details
John Allen, director of the FAA's Flight Standards Service, says additional safety devices, pilot training and air safety procedures will be mandated as part of new rulemaking for helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) operations. A HEMS Notice of...
May 4, 2009
AVS Technology for Helicopter Brownout Conditions
CAE and Neptec Design Group have successfully demonstrated Neptec's Obscurant Penetrating Autosynchronous LIDAR (OPAL) sensor as integrated into CAE's Augmented Visionics System (AVS). CAE's AVS solution is being developed to enable helicopter pilots to...
May 4, 2009
Safety Rules & Regs
Federal Aviation Administration Ninth Meeting, RTCA Special Committee 216: Aeronautical System Security. SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 216: Aeronautical Systems Security. DATES: The meeting...
May 4, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks April 09, 2009 Wamena, Indonesia BAE AVRO 146R PK-BRD Avistar BAe-146 crashed during its second approach to Runway 15 at Wamena Airport, Papua, Indonesia Six fatalities The non-scheduled cargo flight...
April 27, 2009
Government Secrecy for the Birds
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaFrance ordered the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make its entire bird strike database available to the public. "Public disclosure is our job," LaHood wrote on his official blog. "The sea change in...
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