Riding The Pilot Shortage Pony, Southwest Pilots Ink A Generous Deal Boeing’s 747 entered service in 1970 when pilot salaries were so high people joked that the signature hump atop the forward fuselage was designed in so that the captains could sit on their wallets. Based on terms of a new[…] Read this article
Possible New Evidence In The Mystery Of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 The latest news on the 10-year-old mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 comes out of Australia, this week, where a 77-year-old fisherman claims he likely snagged part of the Boeing 777 wing in his nets, but his reports were ignored[…] Read this article
GA Groups Rally To Defend YouTube Personality On Legal Challenge The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), together with the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and the Alaska Pilots Association, are stepping up to defend YouTuber Trent Palmer in his bid to overturn an FAA suspension. The advocacy groups addressed the[…] Read this article
Climate Protesters Turned Back At Antwerp Airport According to local Belgian news sources, law enforcement officers thwarted a group of some 700 climate activists who tried to storm Antwerp Airport last week in an effort to disrupt flight operations. About 20 of the activists from the Netherlands-based[…] Read this article
NTSB Report Contains Key Information On High-Profile Accident The tragic double-fatal crash of a high-performance airplane could potentially have easily been avoided, according to one of the top experts in the field. The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report (text available here on the Aviation[…] Read this article
