Google News Alert for: FAA FAA: 2 jets were only about 82 feet apart at LAX The Associated Press FAA spokesman Mike Fergus said the jet was supposed to stop 200 feet from the edge of a parallel runway but continued on. An alarm was triggered when the ... See all stories on this topic http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ap/faa-2-passenger-jets-were-only-about-82-feet-apart-on-ground-at-los-angeles-airport-67203977.html Google Blogs Alert for: FAA FAA: 2 passenger jets were only about 82... Read Full Story
CAPTION: “Ben”, […said Bobby Sturgell, failed FAA Ex-Acting Administrator], “It’s not always a good thing to have your picture in the paper”. http://www.faa.gov/news/speeches/news_story.cfm?newsId=10342 * * * * * * * * * http://ejectsturgell.blogspot.com/2008/11/do-you-speak-eel-translating-faa-bobby_30.html Sunday, November 30, 2008 Do You Speak EEL?: Translating FAA Bobby Sturgell - PART III “Not long after that, the [Washington] Post ran a feature that included a picture of me with my son... Read Full Story
“I Want A New Drunk” – Another Intoxicated Pilot On Bobby Sturgell’s “Watch” RENEW THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT OF SOUTHWEST (“CRACKED PLANES”) AIRLINES, a/k/a “AIR KEVORKIAN" http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=d1db5aba-f061-4f05-8df1-6fbf4fa321a3 Southwest Places Suspected Intoxicated Pilot On Leave Thu, 08 Jan '09 Runs To Bathroom After Passengers Accuse Him Of Drinking No one knows for certain whether the Southwest Airlines pilot accused of being drunk by passengers at Port... Read Full Story
Two planes crash midair, killing two people shreveporttimes.com ... Each single-engine Cessna 150 carried two people when both hit and crashed into woods less than a mile from Pineville Regional Airport, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said . Both people who died were in one ... RSS - Local News - http://www.shreveporttimes.com/ TH - National/World Article Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said each of the single-engine Cessna 150s carried two... Read Full Story
3 Plane's Bang into Each Other : Pictures, Video
It is supposed to be an airshow, both pilots on the right should have missed each other.
It just happened, 60 miles from Warsaw, spectators looked helplessly as both plane crashed into each other.
Smoke billowed up into the sky from the cockpits.
Debris was blasted across the sky without sight of the pilots.
Video Clip: CNN
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A helicopter crashed onto a western Maryland interstate highway and burst into flames, killing three employees of a flight instruction company and a passenger, the company said Friday. The aircraft was engulfed when firefighters arrived at the scene minutes after receiving a call at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, said Washington County emergency services director Kevin Lewis. No vehicles on the highway were hit when the helicopter smashed into the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70. All four aboard the... Read Full Story
Link - 633 Squadron: Operation Valkyrie A paperback about the fictional 633 de Havilland Mosquito Squadron in the RAF. Made as a book club challenge lens for summer school, this will become a conventional reviews lens once the read is complete. Meanwhile why not read along with me?
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A great Velozia Air tradition is the posting of airshow photos months after the airshow passes. I don’t exactly do it intentionally, it just happens that way. I figured today would be a great way to continue this by posting pictures from the MacDill Air Force Base AirFest 2009 show. MacDill’s airshow is one of my favorites and it is the airshow I have attended the most times. As with most of the major military shows here in the US, the flight line is lined with an impressive count of... Read Full Story
RV-6 similar to accident aircraft. Photo by A. Hunt.
A little bit over four months ago (on March 18, 2009), I posted about a Van’s RV-6 (N6383W) accident in which I really didn’t have that much information on what may have occurred. The plane crashed in Paulden, Arizona and killed the pilot, Curtis Jarvis. You can read what little information I did have on this light airplane crash on the original post HERE . However, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) released their... Read Full Story
A Cessna 182Q Skylane similar to the accident aircraft. Photo by Christophe Mathy.
Back in March 27, 2009, Velozia Air reported on a Cessna 182Q Skylane (registration N4871N) crash that occurred on March 25 th three miles west of Blue Grass Airport (LEX) in Lexington, Kentucky. The pilot was killed in the crash. Back when the original post was published, there was very little information available, but a National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) report was published back in April... Read Full Story
