Airbus A-400 Crash Highlights Issues With Modern Aviation Technology

Earlier this month, an Airbus A-400 transport plane intended for the Turkish Air Force crashed near Seville San Pablo Airport in Spain, killing four people. Two of the four dead were the plane’s test pilots. The crash has been blamed on issues within o …

Sikorsky Unveils UH-60 Drone Helicopter (Sort Of)

Forget the zombie apocalypse, before too long we are not going to be able to throw a rock with hitting a drone. The drone apocalypse is upon us! And last week at an Atlanta trade show of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (“AUVS …

Boeing 787 Dreamliner Still Experiencing Nightmares

On May 1, 2015, the FAA issued Airworthiness Directive 2015-09-07, which calls for near immediate and continuing efforts to fix a potentially catastrophic software issue with all models of the Boeing 787 aircraft. Boeing recently advised the FAA that a …

Amazon Moves Closer to Drone Delivery System

What an age we live in! Amazon just got a little bit closer to being able to deliver packages to your house via drones, taking the air or ground choice to a whole new level. On March 19, 2015, the FAA reported that it had issued an Experimental Type Ce …

The Day the Probable Cause Report Died – the NTSB Revisits the Buddy Holly Plane Crash

The NTSB recently announced that it might re-open the February 1959 investigation of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). The announcement apparently came in response to a petition by a New Engla …

Look Everyone! I’m About To Be In A Plane Crash!

In a report released last week, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that a plane crash last May near Denver was caused, at least in part, by the pilot taking pictures of himself with his cell phone. Both the pilot and his passenge …

Another Commercial Airliner, AirAsia Flight 8501, Missing In Southeast Asia

The unthinkable has happened again. Another commercial airliner is missing in Southeast Asia. AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared Saturday evening over the Java Sea while en route from Surabaya to Singapore. There were 162 people on board at the time and, …

Turbulence Injures Passengers Aboard American Airlines Flight

American Airlines Flight 280, en route from Seoul, Korea to Dallas, was diverted and made an emergency landing today in Japan following severe turbulence. The turbulence was the result of a powerful winter storm that has been intensifying over the area …

American Airlines And Southwest Airlines Stand To Benefit From New Air Traffic Control Plan

According to the FAA, there is something special in the air over DFW and Love Field. The agency announced late last week that it has rolled out one component of its Next Generation Air Transportation System (“NextGen”) in Dallas.   The plan, as fully i …

New Location Reporting Rules For Airlines

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8 — over eight months ago — and it seems that authorities are no closer to finding the wreckage now than they were then. Obviously the airliner needs to be found, both to provide closure to families and …