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Four people, two students and two instructors, were killed in a midair collision between a Piper Seminole and a Cessna 172 late Saturday in southern Florida Saturday afternoon. The wreckage was found early Sunday in a practice area and authorities confirmed both aircraft were from flight schools …

Timothy McCormack spent 10 months fixing Qantas 747s and signing off on work done by others but he’d never had any training as a maintenance engineer. He was exposed last year, charged in September and will be sentenced Dec. 17 to what the judge in his personation case indicated will be a long stretch …

Reuters says Sao Paulo newpaper O Estado de S. Paulo will publish a report this week blaming the American pilots of a Legacy 600 business jet for a collision with a Gol airliner that killed all 155 people on the airliner in 2007. It cites a Brazilian Air Force report that says one of the bizjet pilots turned off the Legacy’s transponder. A spokesman for the owner of the business jet says the report is more complicated than that.

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