The plane, a Piper PA 34 aircraft, went down shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, about a half-mile west of the town of Caroga, near the Royal Mountain Campsites, in woods near Route 29, Fulton County sheriff's office and the Federal Aviation Administration said. The Associated Press, quoting Sheriff Thomas Lorey, said the flight was an Angel Flight, which provide transport for sick patients in critical condition. The plane left from Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., and was headed to Rome in Oneida… (www.timesunion.com) More...
A PASSENGER plane is being escorted by RAF fighter jets to Stansted Airport for "security reasons". The plane, which is a Pakistan International Airlines plane, has been diverted from landing in Manchester. There are believed to be 297 passengers on board the plane, and a spokesman for Essex Police said: "An incident has occurred on an aircraft. Police and partners are responding." (www.express.co.uk) More...
Looks like a British Airways A318 or A319. A witness says it was an A319 headed for Oslo. "Both runways are currently closed. All passengers & crew have been safely evacuated from an aircraft which is on the northern runway." "Air traffic controllers said the airport was closed to all arrivals following the incident, which happened just after 8 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET)." (worldnews.nbcnews.com) More...
AOPA on May 22 denounced an FAA plan to charge the Experimental Aircraft Association for the travel costs, per diem expenses, and overtime pay of the air traffic controllers it deploys to staff EAA AirVenture, the association’s annual aviation fly-in, expo, and airshow, which is also the largest gathering of civil aircraft in the world. (www.aopa.org) More...
From Youtube: "Three high definition cameras were mounted to my Beechcraft Bonanza when the engine quit on takeoff from Fairbanks Alaska on July 26th 2012, One was pointed forward, one to the right side, and one to the rear. All three cameras caught the crash as it happened in HD. Both people on board survived with only minor injuries, but the airplane didn't." (www.youtube.com) More...
On the day that United Airlines re-launched Boeing 787 commercial service from the airline’s hub in Houston, the carrier has provided details of new 787 services it plans to begin this summer. (www.airlinesanddestinations.com) More...
Former presidents George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton all have airports named for them. So do former cabinet secretaries John Foster Dulles and Norman Y. Mineta and celebrities as varied as John Wayne, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, Will Rogers and Arnold Palmer. There's also a long-held tradition of naming airports, airfields and terminals for people with links to aviation history. Here are a dozen to explore. (www.usatoday.com) More...
The $6,200,000,000 redesign of the F-35B has borne fruit with the first vertical takeoff and landing of the F-35B. Projected unit cost of at least $112M a copy, but nice video, so I guess it's worth it. (www.youtube.com) More...
An unspecified number of workers have been laid off at Cessna, according to a company statement. The move came Thursday, a month after the planemaker asked for voluntary retirements from both salaried and hourly workers. (www.aero-news.net) More...
