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...
New York Man Charged in Scheme to Export Fighter Jet Engines to Iran
U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday announced that a federal grand jury in Miami has indicted four family members on various counts of illegally attempting to export 22 F-5 fighter jet engines to Iran
Australian Transport Safety Bureau Releases Final Qantas Flight 32 Report
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau on Thursday released their final report into the Qantas A380 uncontained engine failure over Indonesia on November 4, 2010. The 305 page report gives a full account of the major incident, ...
Are European Airlines Profiting From Shelved EU Carbon Tax?
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Mexico City Airport Replaces All 348 Police Officers
All 348 police officers assigned to Mexico City International Airport have been reassigned two months after a deadly shooting.