All articles by John Croft – Page 57
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Eclipse sold to Pieper spin-off
A federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware on 20 January approved the sale of Eclipse Aviation to EclipseJet Aviation,...
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Key evidence not yet captured from US Airways A320 data and voice recorders, engines
The US NTSB says it will lift the submerged US Airways A320 from the Hudson River in downtown New York starting 1000h Saturday morning, a required step in retrieving the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the aircraft.
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US Airways A320 crash lands in the Hudson River
A US Airways Airbus A320 has crash-landed in the Hudson River west of New York City after a departure from LaGuardia Airport on January 15th.
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Air Berlin chooses ACSS for environmental, safety upgrade
Air Berlin has signed an agreement with US-based ACSS to equip a portion of its new Boeing 737 fleet with the company's SafeRoute automatic dependent surveillance...
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EasyJet Boeing 737 plunge being investigated by AAIB and NTSB
The US National Transportation Safety Board says it is assisting the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch in a probe of a "violent" pitch-down by an EasyJet...
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Building an International Space Station lifeline
Given an expected gap of five years between operational readiness for the Ares I crew launch vehicle in 2015 and...
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Race to International Space Station begins in earnest
NASA's nascent commercial orbital transport system (COTS) is expected to go live late next year under a $3.5 billion programme. The programme's aim is to...
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Forecasts 2009 - Avionics: Smarter smart aids
Advances in digital information in the cockpit are poised to make flying - and airports - safer in 2009 and beyond
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First VH-71 presidential helicopter enters final production
The first of 28 AgustaWestland-built VH-71 presidential helicopters has arrived at Lockheed Martin’s integration and final production facility in Owego, New York.
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DHS watchdog confirms holster problems for armed pilots
Concerns voiced by federal flightdeck officers over poorly designed holsters for their hand guns have been validated in a recently issued report by the Department...
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Tampering appears unlikely in controversial Bush consultant’s crash
Speculation that sabotage caused the crash on 19 December that killed Michael Connell, a top-level information technology consultant for the Bush administration...
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Black eye prompts executive jet business case re-evaluation
For sale on the web is a previously owned Gulfstream 350 that the brokers promise will "earn the CFO's respect as well as the CEO's" as it provides the amenities...
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No obvious culprit in Continental 737 excursion at Denver: NTSB
The US National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the fiery Continental 737-500 accident at Denver, Colorado on 20 December reveals no obvious...
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Wildlife encounter probably took down North Dakota pilots
An in-flight collision with at least one Canada Goose damaged the stabilator on a University of North Dakota twin-engined...
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NTSB investigates PHI S-76C++ crash
The US NTSB has dispatched four investigators to secure details of a Petroleum Helicopters Inc (PHI) Sikorsky S76C++ that crashed enroute to a Shell offshore oil rig from the company’s Amelia, Louisiana base mid-afternoon on Sunday.
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No injuries in back-to-back American Eagle ERJ incidents
American Eagle says no one was injured this afternoon after an emergency landing of an Embraer ERJ-145 in Killeen, Texas following a flight from Dallas....
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Timco error at root of United Air Lines runway excursion
Misrouted and reversed antiskid wiring by US-based Timco Aviation Services technicians led to the runway excursion of a United Air Lines A320 after landing...