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A Real Solution to Suicide-Murder By Pilot? The 7 Past Incidents to Learn From

What can be changed in order to prevent another Germanwings 9525 from happening? Is there a foolproof solution? We learn from these past events...
by Phil Derner Jr.
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TV News Station Airs Prank Crew Names that NTSB Confirmed

A San Francisco news station shared false prank names of Asiana 214 crewmembers that had been confirmed by the NTSB.
by Phil Derner Jr.
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Week In Review

A collection of this week's aviation news and odd happenings, including an A380 delivery, passenger escaping from aircraft, Midwest's last flight, an IL-76 crash, animals attacking airplanes, a man being denied first class upgr...
by Phil Derner Jr.

 

 

The Logbook: Nudity, Alcohol, and Aviation Apparently Do Not Mix

The United Airlines pilot arrested for drinking this past November has pleaded guilty, British say body scanners violate child pornography laws, Mesa Airlines declares bankruptcy, a Lear 35 crashes in Chicago and a 727 crashes ...
by Phil Derner Jr.

 
 

On This Day in Aviation History: December 23rd

The deaths of two aviation greats; Andrei Tupolev in 1972 and Anthony Fokker in 1939. The B-1 Lancer makes its first flight in 1974, the first dogfight with a UAV in 2002 and the crashes of Azerbaijan Flight 217 in 2005 and Ali...
by Phil Derner Jr.