Pilot Mr A R Hiscox was killed when his light aircraft crashed on Bowfell on November 29th 1987 in low cloud.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Plane Crashes in Truckee; Two Injured
Minor injuries are being reported from a plane crash in Truckee Sunday evening. Ian Gregor with the FAA says the TBM Turbo Prop Jet was flying from San Carlos, Calif. to the Truckee-Tahoe Airport around 5:30 p.m. when the pilot was trying to land. Gregor says the pilot attempted to land once but failed. When the pilot tried to land again, it is reported that the pilot lost control and crashed into a snowy field near the airport. The pilot and passenger onboard had minor injuries.
2 unions vie for the right to represent airport screeners
To James Kelly, the issue is simple: Better morale means improved safety. "They tell us we're at the front line of airline security, but we don't feel we're treated that way," says Kelly, a transport security officer at Los Angeles International Airport and a member of the American Federation of Government Employees. With holiday travel in full throttle, the public is coming into greater contact with Kelly and more than 40,000 airport screeners posted at X-ray machines, checkpoints and elsewhere in terminals nationwide. Though travelers grumble about lengthy security queues, no one disputes the significance of the screeners' task: Keeping air travel safe from terrorism and other threats.
Video: North Korea weapons plane seized
Police in Thailand have seized a cargo plane carrying 35 tonnes of battlefield weapons, including missile launchers, made in North Korea. The seizure is one of the biggest ever busts in the international arms embargo against North Korea. The aircraft landed in Bangkok on Sunday on route from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, but its exact destination is unclear. Al Jazeera's Aela Callan reports from Bangkok.
Aviation industry seeks inclusion in US jobs initiative
Since it was overlooked for stimulus spending earlier this year, the industry has been stung by the fact that while Washington talks about jobs creation, it has not been allowed to participate. Now that President Obama is focusing on a new jobs effort – including a jobs summit held with US industry leaders last week, aviation interests are getting their bid in early. Indeed, one of the reasons aviation was almost entirely left out of the stimulus funding was it came too late to the party.
Aviation leaders from every alphabet soup group signed a letter, saying infrastructure investment – specifically NextGen – would create 167,000 jobs for only USD6.7 billion for both equipage and procedures. When it made its failed bid last winter, the airline industry was asking for $4 billion to pay for aircraft equipage to take advantage of NextGen technologies being rolled out. At the time, it estimated that equipage – mainly avionics – would general 70,000 jobs. At the time, some Congressional wags, responding to criticism they ignored a vital piece of the economy in the stimulus bill, noted the airline industry received massive government expenditures to keep the industry afloat in the wake of 9/11. Even so, most legacy carriers had to restructure through bankruptcy to survive.
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Man dies in Alva plane crash
Officials say a man died when his small plane crashed near Alva while he tried to land in heavy fog at night. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the crash occurred just after midnight Sunday morning. The highway patrol identified the victim as 44-year-old Darin Dean Moser.
Darin Moser, Alva Businessman Killed in Plane Crash
Darin Moser, 44, of Alva, around midnight on Saturday, December 12, 2009 as he attempted to land his twin-engine Cessna 310 twin-engine aircraft in extremely foggy conditions at the Alva Municipal Airport. His wife, Teresa, likely heard the crash. She was at the airport with one of their children and they heard a low pass of an aircraft overhead, and then a short time later a sound she described as a "bang."
Oklahoma man dies in plane crash in Alva
An Alva man died just after midnight this morning in a plane crash near Alva Regional Airport in Woods County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.
Pilot's Body Recovered
PORT MANSFIELD - The body of a pilot missing in Port Mansfield has been recovered. The body of 39-year-old Harvey Kinikin, Jr. was found by authorities Sunday afternoon. Kinikin and his brother-in-law, James Robinett, were the only two people aboard when their plane went down. Robinett's body was recovered Friday. (More . . . . . .)
Video: Good ol' spin in a Cessna 150 - 7 rotation spin
"Doing a spin in a Cessna 150, 7 rotations and lost 2000 feet! Rudder did nothing to stop rotation, had to put it into a spiral to recover."
Pilot to thai police: we thought weapons were oil rig equipment
The plane was carrying 40 tons of heavy weapons from Pyongyang in North Korea
Video: Telluride Airport landing
Pilot's eye view of landing an aircraft at the most beautiful airport in the country. Bad weather made it "interesting".
Police plane to target fatigued drivers
Police will use a light plane to track drivers as part of their Christmas road safety campaign.The Cessna 206H Stationair will monitor drivers from the air looking for signs of fatigue as well as clocking drivers for speeding. It is all part of the annual Operation Safe Arrival - the police Christmas new year road safety campaign.
Video: Weapons seized at Thai airport
Police escort a crew member of a cargo plane at the Crime Suppression
Department headquarters in Bangkok December 12, 2009. Thai security
forces seized more than 35 tonnes of arms and arrested five crew
members after the cargo plane made an emergency landing to refuel on
Saturday, officials said.REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
Video > > > > > > > > Thai authorities have detained five men and seized about 35 tons of weapons aboard their aircraft at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport.
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Pilot injured in power line crash
The pilot of an experimental aircraft was taken to a hospital after the crash
TOMBALL, TX (KTRK) -- The pilot of an experimental aircraft is hospitalized after crashing into some power lines. The pilot was flying a propelled ultralight glider out of Tomball Sunday afternoon when his aircraft struck power lines along FM 1488 east of Magnolia. Power was knocked out in the immediate area.
Employment: Helicopter Pilot Instructor - Grand Forks, ND , United States
Helicopter Pilot Instructor
Location: Grand Forks, ND , United StatesJob Description:
Conduct student flight instruction in the various makes and models of aircraft utilized by the division of Flight Operations. Assists the Chief Flight Instructor in safely conducting the FAA approved ...
Conduct student flight instruction in the various makes and models of aircraft utilized by the division of Flight Operations. Assists the Chief Flight Instructor in safely conducting the FAA approved ...
Minimum Requirements:
• B.S. degree or equivalent supplemented by flight training leading to Airman's Certificate.
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• B.S. degree or equivalent supplemented by flight training leading to Airman's Certificate.
Airline discredits accident investigation findings
Bellview Airlines, one of Nigeria’s national carriers involved in domestic and international transport business, has said that it is impracticable ‘in reality’ to discover the exact reason for an aircraft accident. The carrier over the weekend at an Air Safety International Conference in Lagos, disclosed that the essence of accident investigation in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards is to avoid reoccurrence, expressing displeasure with the manner in which the situation is being handled in the country.
Aviation experts want collaborations on air safety
Industry professionals in Nigeria’s aviation sector have called for a combined effort in the prevention and investigation of aircraft accidents. This follows series of clamours by airline operators requesting public and private partnerships in the drive for safety across the nation’s airspace.
Video: Civil Air Patrol - Wreaths Across America
Montevallo, Ala.—As part of the nationally observed Wreaths Across America ceremony, hundreds of locals gathered at the Alabama National Cemetery in Montevallo to honor fallen U.S. Military personnel and remember troops who are currently serving overseas away from their loved ones.
More than 150 members of various military services, including members of the Bessemer Civil Air Patrol and locals gathered in the rain to lay 250 green wreaths in front of powder white marble tombstones etched with the names of service men and women who have passed away.
KMYR Myrtle Beach International Airport expansion will bring 400 construction jobs
Read more: http://www.thesunnews.com/142/story/1210813.html?storylink=omni_popular
Contracting firms are gearing up for the jobs that the terminal expansion project at Myrtle Beach International Airport will be bringing. The $90 million project is expected to offer 400 construction jobs. The project construction manager, MB Kahn, says they will help small local contractors and make an effort to attract minority and disadvantaged business enterprises to the bidding process.
Contracting firms are gearing up for the jobs that the terminal expansion project at Myrtle Beach International Airport will be bringing. The $90 million project is expected to offer 400 construction jobs. The project construction manager, MB Kahn, says they will help small local contractors and make an effort to attract minority and disadvantaged business enterprises to the bidding process.
Grasmere plane crash kills two
The plane crashed at 8.40am this morning, it is believed that it was attempting to land, said Senior Superintendent Noxolo Kweza. The plane, which is owned by Northwest Aviation, had arrived from Randburg airport. Kweza declined to comment further, citing an investigation by the Civilian Aviation Authority (CAA). The CAA was not immediately available for comment. However, the SABC has reported that the plane crashed after failing to pull out of a dive. It collided with the ground, propeller-first. Source
Employment : Controller Maintenance - Forest Hills, NY , United States
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Controller Maintenance
Location: Forest Hills, NY , United StatesJob Description:
The Maintenance Control team provides surveillance, control, and direction for all aircraft maintenance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Minimum Requirements:
* High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) Diploma
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University acquires plane for new aviation course
Moi University has acquired a plane that will be used to train students taking aerospace studies and provide emergency rescue services. “The university’s decision to venture into aviation will increase the manpower in the expanding aviation industry,” the university’s chancellor Prof Bethwell Ogot said. The vice-chancellor, Prof Richard Mibey, said the six-seater plane will also provide emergency services for patients who need urgent medical attention.
Eight people die in crash of private plane in Chelyabinsk Region
CHELYABINSK - Eight people died in a land-crash of a private plane in the Chelyabinsk Region, Itar-Tass learnt on Sunday at the Ural regional centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies.
Head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the ministry General Oleg Klimov specified that a plane SM-92T belonged to a private company, training in flying planes and parachute jumping for fees. Six sky jumpers were aboard the plane along with two pilots. All of them died.
Piloting mistake, technical failure, weather are sports plane crash theories
CHELYABINSK -- A piloting mistake, a technical failure and bad weather are possible theories of the Sunday crash of a sports plane in the Chelyabinsk region, a source at the Prosecutor General’s Office Investigation Committee told Itar-Tass.
“Forensic experts keep working on the crash scene. There are three main theories, among them a piloting mistake, a technical failure and bad weather,” he said.
Meanwhile, a criminal case was opened on the charge of a breach of flight safety rules. The plane carrying eight persons, including a pilot, a parachuting instructor and six parachute jumpers, took off from the Kalachyovo airfield at 11:07 a.m. local time (9:07 a.m. Moscow time). It fell down from the altitude of about 150 meters, about 1.5 kilometers away from the airfield. Everyone onboard died.
Russian skydivers killed in air crash near Chelyabinsk
The Technoavia SM92 is a single-engined utility plane
Six parachutists have been killed along with an instructor and their pilot in a plane crash near the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, Russian media report. There were no survivors when the plane fell in a matter of seconds from a height of 150m (490ft), the regional environmental security minister said. The Technoavia SM92, a Russian-made sports plane, had flown 400m (yds).Indonesian plane skids off runway
A Boeing 737-400 plane operated by Indonesian budget airline, Lion Air, skidded off the runway when it landed in Pekanbaru airport, Sumatra, Sunday, local media reported. The report said that the plane's gear passed off the runway and ended up at the tip of the airport's runway at around 15:00 local time.
Plane forced to ditch in Connewarre field
DOWN: The pilot of this Cessna landed in a Connewarre field after engine trouble. Photo: REG RYAN
A QUICK-THINKING pilot landed his plane in a field after he experienced engine trouble shortly after takeoff from Barwon Heads Airport. The man, who did not want to be named, was not injured in the incident.
He said he decided to land the plane in a Connewarre field about 11.15am yesterday after a partial loss of power to the Cessna 152's engines.
Employment - Aircraft Maintenance Instructor - Jamaica, NY USA
| Aircraft Maintenance Instructor | ||
| Company: | Aerotek Aviation | |
| Location: | Jamaica, NY 11426 | |
| Position Type: | Job Type: Full Time Temporary/Contract/Project | |
| Job Category: | Quality Assurance/ Safety | |
Aircraft Maintenance Instructor Job Description:
Our client, is looking for a Maintenance Instructor.
Instructor responsibilities include preparing, organizing and instructing mandatory classes on a regular basis to A&P Mechanics. These courses will include but are not limited to air worthiness directives, APU issues, Deicing, recurring maintenance issues, and General Familiarization of Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft.
80% will be instructing in a classroom environment.
Must have at least 10 years of aviation maintenance experience and 2 years of technical training experience.
20% will be developing course work.
This is a 9 month contract to hire.
The position is located at JFK and they must be a local candidate.
Exceptional written communication skills is critical.
http://jobview.monster.com/Aircraft-Maintenance-Instructor-Job-Jamaica-NY-US-85059901.aspx
Instructor responsibilities include preparing, organizing and instructing mandatory classes on a regular basis to A&P Mechanics. These courses will include but are not limited to air worthiness directives, APU issues, Deicing, recurring maintenance issues, and General Familiarization of Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft.
80% will be instructing in a classroom environment.
Must have at least 10 years of aviation maintenance experience and 2 years of technical training experience.
20% will be developing course work.
This is a 9 month contract to hire.
The position is located at JFK and they must be a local candidate.
Exceptional written communication skills is critical.
City to buy old hangar, two lots
The city of Princeton has agreed to purchase the last of the airplane hangars on what was formerly the site of the Princeton Airport just south of First Street on the west side of the city. The airport was relocated to the south about three decades ago but some old hangars continued to remain on the north end where there had been a grass strip. The new airport has a hard surface runway and parallel taxiway.
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Purchase of hangars clears way to renovate
The Beechcraft facility must be razed to allow use of the airport's east-west runway. With its approval of the $2.3 million purchase of Tulsair Beechcraft's Hangars 8 and 10 at Tulsa International Airport on Thursday, the Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust laid the foundation for the reconstruction of the main north-south runway.
Read more: http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=45&articleid=20091211_45_E1_Wttprv914623
Read more: http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=45&articleid=20091211_45_E1_Wttprv914623
Air France Incident May Shed Light on Brazil Crash
French air-accident investigators said the abrupt descent of an Air France jetliner in storms off Brazil last month may help explain why a plane operated by the carrier plunged into the Atlantic near the same spot in June. In the Nov. 29 incident, an Airbus SAS A330 aircraft en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris encountered severe turbulence and descended into calmer weather before completing the trip.
Search for Spitfire spares
The owner of a rare Spitfire damaged in a landing mishap in Auckland last week has begun a hunt for spare parts which may take him to the other side of the world. Doug Brooker's two-seater Mark IX Spitfire tipped on to its nose, damaging its four-bladed wooden propeller and parts of its undercarriage. The aircraft is believed to be worth about $3 million.
FAA to Push for Stricter Requirements for Pilot Licenses
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration told a Senate panel Thursday he wants new rules aimed at enhancing pilot training and preventing pilots from flying when they're too tired. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said his agency hopes to create a new category of commercial pilot licenses for beginning pilots, the Wall Street Journal reported. Under the proposed changes, pilots would need more than the roughly 250 hours of flying time currently required, as well as extra training in a variety of conditions.
Read more: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/10/faa-to-push-for-stricter-requirements-for-pilot-licenses/
Read more: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/12/10/faa-to-push-for-stricter-requirements-for-pilot-licenses/
Aircraft Makes Emergency Landing at Essex County Airport
Fairfield Police were called to the Essex County Airport shortly before 6:00pm today after an inbound aircraft reported a mechanical problem. Air traffic controllers at the airport reported that the TBM-700 single engine turboprop aircraft reported a landing gear malfunction with the aircraft’s nose gear.
Fairfield Police, Fire and West Essex First Aid Squad personnel responded to the airport to standby. After making several attempts to extend the landing gear, the aircraft made a couple of passes past the control tower so that air traffic controllers could attempt to ascertain if the nose gear was down. The aircraft made an emergency landing shortly thereafter on Runway 22 without the extended nose gear and came to a stop on the runway.
'Holly Run' brings Christmas joy to Tangier Island - Santa, area pilots make the trek to remote spot
TANGIER ISLAND, VA. - Everyone knows Santa Claus usually arrives in style in a sleigh powered by eight reindeer. But that's not the case when you live on a remote island in the Chesapeake Bay. When it comes to visiting the good little girls and boys on Tangier Island, Santa needs the help of some talented pilots and a Cessna Grand Caravan airplane. Santa had plenty of company on his flight to Tangier yesterday. About 30 pilots from around the region joined in, carrying fresh holly and greens, as well as toys.
Embry-Riddle wins another regional flying title
The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Golden Eagles Flight Team captured its 24th consecutive regional championship title at the National Intercollegiate Flying Association (NIFA) SAFECON Region II competition. ERAU Prescott traveled to San Diego, Calif., last month for the NIFA Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference (SAFECON). Teams competed for qualifying positions to attend the national conference next May in Terre Haute, Ind.
Video: Passenger Robinett Family Reacts
"Their big deal was to go deep sea fishing. They were excited. They were supposed to go on Thanksgiving but it got canceled so they went then," Robert's teary eyes sister said. But Robinett never got to cast a line on his fishing trip. His plane vanished from radar just before midnight on Thursday and his remains were found just off the coast of Port Mansfield Friday afternoon.
Read more: http://www.newschannel10.com/Global/story.asp?S=11668645
Video: The family of plane crash victim speaks out
The search will resume Sunday morning for the missing pilot of the plane crash near Port Mansfield this past week. Though authorities have not released his identity, family members verified his identity as that of Harvey Kinikin of Dumas, Texas.
The body of his companion on board the plane, Robert Robinett of Sunray, Texas, was found at around noon on Friday. Willacy County and Texas Parks and Wildlife officials tell Action 4 News they recovered the plane on Saturday evening, but the pilot was not inside as they had hoped.
France to resume 'black box' hunt
French accident investigators say they will begin a third search for the black boxes of an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil. The Airbus A330 crashed in a storm en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on 1 June, killing all 228 people on board. The head of the French investigation agency, Jean-Paul Troadec, announced the move in Rio de Janeiro after meeting relatives of the dead.
Dallas agents ground helicopter believed to be on way to Iran
Federal agents in Dallas have grounded a helicopter that they say Italian aircraft brokers were planning to ship from North Texas to Iran in violation of U.S. trade sanctions. The fate of the $8 million chopper, sitting in a Bell hangar in Arlington, is in limbo while federal agents untangle an international web of circumstances that has already resulted in two other U.S.-manufactured helicopters entering Iran.
Video: Vintage Aircraft Series - Boeing Stratocruiser
Flight Sim trip to Hawaii Circa 1959 with Elvis soundtrack.
Man hopes pilot's legacy lives on
Lewis Riddle goes over old newspaper and magazine articles about Rod Sullivan, the Sanford pilot who was on the first scheduled cargo flight across the Pacific. -- Billy Ligget
SANFORD — There’s a Rod Sullivan Road at the Raleigh Exec Airport in Sanford, and there’s a construction materials business in the city called Capt. Rod Sullivan.
But to Lewis Riddle — the 82-year-old Air Force veteran who grew up with Sullivan’s son — not enough is commonly known about Sanford’s most famous pilot, the man who served as First Officer aboard the China Clipper, the first plane to deliver cargo across the Pacific Ocean. To help his memory live on, Riddle donated a portrait of Sullivan to the airport this past week to honor a man he calls “a great hero aviator.”
Thailand to File Charges Against Crew of Weapons Cargo Flight
Thailand will file charges Monday against the five crew members of the cargo aircraft seized in Bangkok on Saturday for carrying weapons, an official said. The plane, on route from North Korea and carrying more than 30 tons of weapons, was seized by Thai authorities when it landed to refuel, the New York Times reported yesterday. The aircraft was bound for a country in “South Asia,” it said. “The case will be submitted to a Thai court tomorrow,” Panitan Wattanayagorn, a government spokesman, said today by phone. The crew members include four from Kazakhstan and one from Belarus, he said.
Leadership problem revealed at airport
The New Braunfels Municipal Airport has a leadership problem. This past week, as the newspaper investigated a claim that the air control tower was understaffed, this problem became immediately apparent.
The question was simple but the answer was complicated.
A letter to the city from Ed Mears, a regional representative of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association and a Georgetown-based employee of Robinson Aviation, claimed the New Braunfels airport control tower was dangerously understaffed. He wrote that New Braunfels controllers work long hours with no room for breaks, lunch, vacation or sick days.
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