Monthly Archives: June 2009
On Tuesday, a Yemeni Airbus 310 carrying 153 passengers crashed into the sea only 21 miles from its destination, the Moroni airport in Comoros. The flight was the last leg of a journey from Paris and Marseille to Comoros, with a stop in Yemen to change planes. According to reports, search teams have rescued a five-year-old child from the wreckage in the sea but there is no further word on the toddler’s condition. Reports are conceding that it is too … Read more…
According to reports, a father and his son died in a plane crash on Sunday that took place near Rimrock Lake, Washington. Reportedly on the plane were the pilot and father, Justin Reed, 37, and his two children, Parrin, 13, and Julie, 5. The daughter Julie was critically injured in the crash suffering head injuries and multiple fractures. She was airlifted to a Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center after an initial visit to Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. A passerby, William Watt, … Read more…
According to a June 24th press release, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administration Randy Babbitt has announced a review of flight and rest rules. Further, he has issued a request to airlines and their unions to respond by July 31 with specific commitments to key topics concerning safety at regional and major airlines. The specific requests can be read in the PDF version of Babbitt’s letters here, here and below. The press release, also available here and below, demonstrates the FAA’s commitment … Read more…
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In southern Utah on Friday, 5/29, two people died in a plane crash between Escalante and Boulder just off Scenic Highway 12 in the Calf Creek Recreational area. According to Garfield County sheriff’s spokeswoman Becki Bronson, the plane clipped a power line, hit the road and slid into the Calf Creek Bridge. Killed in the crash were the pilot, John Austin, 64, of Boulder, Garfield County, and his passenger, Susan D. Gordon, 67, of California. Bronson said that just prior … Read more…
That is the name of the bill that was introduced in the Senate this year by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Cal) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). It is a brave and necessary move by these senators to bring to the Senate a bill that would “require the establishment of national standards with respect to flight requirements for pilots [and] require the development of fatigue management plants.” The crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing that … Read more…
On Thursday, a Continental Airlines pilot died while flying a Boeing 777 from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, New Jersey. The pilot, 60-year-old Craig Alan Lenell, suffered from a reported heart attack. Two co-pilots subsequently took control of the plane and were able to finish the rest of the flight without incident. The only reported clue to passengers that something was wrong came when a call over the loudspeaker asked for any doctors on board. Dr. Julius Struyven, 72, a cardiologist and … Read more…
Yesterday, Senators Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat who chairs the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, and Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the subcommittee’s top Republican, strongly signaled their desire to pass legislation intended to improve safety at regional airlines. When speaking at a congressional hearing on the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407, in which 50 people died, Senator Dorgan reportedly recognized the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) efforts towards getting airlines to boost their pilot hiring procedures and the agency’s vow … Read more…
According to a recent Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report, further interpretation of the scant few clues that have been revealed to investigators of the Air France Flight 447 crash are suggestive of a scenario that involved the plane’s break-up while in the air. The CSM report cites a Brazilian newspaper claiming that unnamed investigators are saying that an examination of the retrieved bodies, recovered up to 85 miles apart, indicate a possible break-up of the plane before hitting the water. … Read more…
Airbus, the manufacturer of the A330, is publicly asking for patience on determining what caused Air France Flight 447 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 and killed all 228 people on board. Speaking before the Paris Airshow on Saturday, Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders reportedly said, “…it certainly doesn’t provide consolation to the families that if we look at the statistics of flying compared with 30 years ago, the statistics show that the A330 is one of … Read more…
A New Mexico State Police Department helicopter pilot and a University of New Mexico physics graduate student from Tokyo died last Tuesday when the helicopter they were traveling in crashed. The pilot, Sgt. Andy Tingwall, was piloting the helicopter on a search-and-rescue mission to find student, Megumi Yamamoto, who went missing while hiking with her boyfriend and called for help on her cell phone after the two became separated. After locating Yamamoto, Tingwall and Office Wesley Cox carried her to … Read more…
