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CHICAGO, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jim Hall, former Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Counsel to the Nolan Law Group issued the following statement today: At his press availability in Minnesota Friday morning, NTSB Member Steven Chealander revealed that there was no flight data recorder (FDR) installed on the Hawker 800 that crashed in Owatonna, MN, on Thursday morning. Fortunately, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will provide some limited information...
By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 22--A home-built plane powered by a Chevy Corvette engine crashed at North Perry Airport this month after it lost power and the pilot turned sharply in an apparent attempt to land, a National Transportation Safety Board report released Monday said. That turn put the wings almost perpendicular to the ground and caused the Lancair IV-P to lose lift -- or "stall" in aviation terms -- when it was 150 feet in the air, the safety board...
By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 22--A home-built plane powered by a Chevy Corvette engine crashed at North Perry Airport this month after it lost power and the pilot turned sharply in an apparent attempt to land, a National Transportation Safety Board report released Monday said. That turn put the wings almost perpendicular to the ground and caused the Lancair IV-P to lose lift -- or "stall" in aviation terms -- when it was 150 feet in the air, the safety board...
By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 21--A small home-built plane crashed at North Perry Airport on July 7 after its Chevy Corvette engine lost power and the pilot attempted to make an extremely sharp turn back to the runway, according to a preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report released on Monday. That turn, putting the wings almost perpendicular to the ground, apparently caused the plane to stall, meaning its wings lost lift when it was only 150 feet above the...
By Tom Brune, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 17--WASHINGTON -- Within five months of the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, the National Transportation Safety Board suggested a federal regulation to address the fuel tank explosion that caused the jet's destruction. But for the next 12 years -- until yesterday -- that regulation was delayed by a stiff wind from the hard-pressed airline industry, complaining about the rule's cost and technical practicality, say safety experts. Just weeks ago,...
By Matthew L. Wald Twelve years after TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 people aboard, the secretary of transportation headed to the site of the reconstructed fuselage Wednesday to announce a final rule designed to prevent more accidents caused by explosions in fuel tanks. The rule, which will require airlines to pump inert gas into the tanks, will cover all new passenger and cargo airliners plus passenger planes built in most of the 1990s, but...
By TOM DAVIS STAFF WRITER Federal officials are investigating two close calls at Teterboro Airport in the last month. The incidents labeled "incursions" by the Federal Aviation Administration involved planes that entered runways considered off- limits, according to reports from the National Transportation Safety Board. No one was injured, but the wayward jets got within hundreds of feet of people and aircraft, according to the NTSB. The investigation will likely take from nine months to...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating a near collision of two airborne jetliners at Kennedy Airport in New York over the weekend. The NTSB said Tuesday that initial reports indicate Cayman Airways Flight 792, a Boeing 737-300, and LAN Chile Flight 533, a Boeing 767-300, almost collided on Saturday at 8:36 p.m. Federal Aviation Administration officials said Monday the planes came no closer than 300 feet vertically and no more...
By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 1--Pilot error and poor weather are to blame in two separate plane crashes that killed a total of eight South Florida residents, the National Transportation Safety Board has ruled. In a "probable cause" statement released Tuesday, the safety board found that a Plantation man flew into thunderstorms while attempting to fly to the Bahamas on April 21, 2007. His plane crashed in the Atlantic, killing all five on board. In a separate ruling, the...
By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Jul. 1--The National Transportation Safety Board has ruled pilot error was to blame in two separate plane crashes that killed a total of eight South Florida residents. In a "probable cause" statement released on Tuesday, the safety board found that a Plantation man flew into thunderstorms while attempting to fly to the Bahamas in April 2007, killing five. In a separate ruling, the safety board determined that a Davie pilot flew too low while...
