Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Gregory Polek

Search teams have found the bodies of the captain and a flight attendant among the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447, the company confirmed today. So far crews have recovered at least 50 bodies from the Atlantic Ocean out of the 228 aboard the Airbus A330-200 when it crashed in the early morning hours of June 1.
While Brazilian teams continue the search for bodies, French authorities comb the area for more aircraft parts and lead the search for the CVR and FDR, suspected to lie as deep as 15,000 feet below the surface. Two French ships continue to trawl a 50-square-mile area of the Atlantic Ocean, some 400 miles off the coast of the Brazilian island archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, pulling U.S. Navy underwater listening devices in an effort to detect the exact location of the flight recorders. 
Designed to emit so-called “pings” for only about a month, the flight recorders will stop signaling within a week, at which time the chances of finding them will diminish to virtually nil.

Captain, Flight Attendant from Air France Flight 447 Identified

Search teams have found the bodies of the captain and a flight attendant among the victims of the crash of Air France Flight 447, the company confirmed tod

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