VisionJet CAPS Pull In Florida, Three Injured One person was seriously injured and two suffered minor injuries in what appears to be the first field deployment of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System on a VisionJet SF50 near Orlando on Friday. According to clickorlando the aircraft went down[…] Read this article
A Bucketful Of Blues Instructors know that student pilots teach us much more than we give in return, particularly when failure is involved. One student who showed me the meaning of dignity while floundering in the borscht of humiliation was Karl. But what’s in[…] Read this article
Best Of The Web: Blancolirio Turbine Otter Crash Summary On Sept. 4, 2022, 10 people were killed when a turbine Otter en route from Friday Harbor to Renton, Washington, crashed off Whidbey Island. In this video summary, Juan Brown of the blancorilirio channel covers what’s known about the accident[…] Read this article
Most Commercial GPS Safe From Ligado 5G, Military Faces Problems A study by the National Academies of Sciences has determined that most civilian GPS services won’t suffer significant interference from Ligado’s new 5G cellular and data service but the military might be in some trouble. The study, which was ordered[…] Read this article
Poll: Should The FAA And NTSB Do More About High-Profile Flightseeing Accidents? Read this article
Boundaries Defined On Commercial Space Accident Investigations The prickly turf war between the NTSB and the FAA over commercial space accident investigations has been settled with a carving out of territory that appears to keep both agencies in their respective lanes. The new memorandum of agreement, which[…] Read this article
Russia Swearing Off Boeing, Airbus Products The head of Russia’s biggest aerospace company says his country’s airlines will likely never fly Airbus or Boeing designs after the airliners it appropriated from lease companies and those owned by Russian companies are no longer flyable. “Boeing and Airbus[…] Read this article
MD Helicopters Under New Leadership MD Helicopters (MDH) is under new leadership after being acquired by an investment consortium led by MBIA Insurance Corp., Bardin Hill and MB Global Partners. Brad Pedersen will be serving as the company’s president and CEO with former Boeing Government[…] Read this article
Top Letters And Comments, September 9, 2022 Lightspeed Releases New Safety-Focused ANR Headset The built-in CO detector and hearing loss compensation are very interesting and I applaud them for adding these features to a headset. Yes, every aircraft has a CO detector but how many times do[…] Read this article
