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December 27th, 2011 | Aviation articles
December 26, 2011 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a rule on December 21 to limit pilots’ flight and duty hours, according to Occupational Health and Safety. Under the new rule, flight time will be limited to eight or nine hours. The 10-hour minimum rest period is a two hour increase from the old rules.… Read More
December 21st, 2011 | Aviation accident
December 21, 2011 On Tuesday in Morris Township, New Jersey, a high-performance Socata TBM-700 turboprop plane spun out of control and crashed in a fireball on a busy highway, killing all five people aboard and narrowly missing dozens of vehicles speeding by, reports CBS News. It was a normal takeoff with a routine conversation with… Read More
December 19th, 2011 | Featured articles
December 19, 2011 Two pilots and co-owners of the plane, a 55-year-old man and a 63-year-old-man, were killed in an Ottawa plane crash, according to CBC news. The younger man was the pilot of the 1969 Cessna Cardinal 177. It crashed Wednesday at about 7:30 p.m. near Ottawa’s main airport. Paramedics believe that both men… Read More
December 16th, 2011 | Aviation accident
December 16, 2011 On Thursday, December 8, a single-engine Cirrus SR22 crashed about one-half mile from the Scottsdale, Arizona, airport, reports the Tucson Citizen. The 62-year-old pilot died inside the plane, and the 60-year-old passenger was transported to a nearby trauma center for non-life threatening injuries, fire and police officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration… Read More
December 14th, 2011 | Aviation accident
December 14, 2011 A tour helicopter went down just west of Lake Mead, killing five people, last Wednesday evening, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. The aircraft is operated by Sundance Helicopters. It was on a routine flight when the copter took an unplanned sharp left turn and then steeply declined into a ravine,… Read More
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