Safety

Investigations into two accidents involving Eurocopter AS 350 helicopters led the NTSB to determine that the hydraulic pump drive belt (P/N 704A33690004) p

AirCare’s Facts safety training company is now basing a mobile emergency procedures cockpit/cabin simulator at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.

Over the last 10 years business aviation safety has improved immensely.

Avidyne has launched a range of active surveillance traffic systems for helicopters, with prices beginning at $9,900–less than half the cost of competing s

The pilot of a Bombardier Challenger 600 that was substantially damaged during a hard landing on Runway 15 at Aspen, Colo., on February 9, told the NTSB th

The FAA is not planning to ground the Mitsubishi MU-2, despite a plea from Rep.

Marinvent, the Canadian research firm, received a U.S.

At a briefing at February’s Heli-Expo in Dallas, members of the industry’s newly formed International Helicopter Safety Team briefed delegates on their str

March 26 is the comment deadline for a widespread proposal that would require operators and manufacturers of airliner-size airplanes (including bizliners)

Erica Sheward’s long-awaited book Aviation Food Safety is now available from Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DK, England, te

The use of thrust reversers to shorten landing distance is a great benefit to aviation.

Eleven years after the October 1994 crash of American Eagle Flight 4184 in Roselawn, Ind., the FAA proposed a revision to Part 25 certification regulations

The cost of having a business aircraft worked on by a certified repair station that also works on airline aircraft may go up as a result of new FAA drug an

The FAA last month issued another airworthiness directive related to the Primus Epic avionics system, this time calling for GIV and GV operators to revise

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is praising the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for approving an amendment that protects safety informa

Concerned about the growing number of Cessna 208 Caravan icing accidents, aviation authorities in the U.S.

The investigation into the apparently accidental death of line employee Joyce Miller, 29, on February 28 at Wilson Air Center’s Charlotte/Douglas Internati

Ramp accidents and incidents continue to plague the aviation industry, but the good news is that FBOs, charter operators and flight departments are taking

Applied Biosystems, a Warrington, UK, subsidiary of Applera of Norwalk, Conn., is marketing an avian influenza test kit in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mid

Despite the installation of runway collision avoidance equipment at many of the nation’s largest airports, recently there has been an increase in the numbe

A new rule will end the hundreds of mode-S installation exemptions currently in effect.

The DOT last month issued a rule amending the requirements for the transportation of hazardous materials by aircraft.

Pilots flying almost every type of business jet and airliner and some turboprops face a risk of inadvertent seatbelt release, according to a bulletin the F

The FAA last month issued AD 2006-06-06, the result of further icing accidents and incidents involving the Cessna Caravan, flight manual revisions that con

On March 31 exemptions to ACAS II (TCAS II, Change 7) requirements in Europe were set to expire.

DuPage has 10.8 million sq ft of pavement, including runways, taxiways, ramp area, roads and parking lots.

A new FAA program is intended to improve the use of comprehensible English as the international language of aviation and support new English language profi

EMS operators in Europe are providing some input in the ongoing debate in the U.S.

Under the terms of an agreement signed by Gulfstream Aerospace and FlightSafety International (FSI), FSI will provide systems training to Gulfstream techs

The Bombardier Learjet 40 and 60 have been attracting attention after one Learjet 60 operator recently raised word of a potential fire hazard that exists w