2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Curt Epstein

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

Copilot declared mayday minutes after takeoff

All Safe after Pilot Lands Caravan on Virginia Highway

Charles Alcock

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

Charter flight landed safely after departing Farnborough Airport

Cause of Challenger's Uncommanded Flap Failure Unknown

Gordon Gilbert

Fatalities soared for U.S.-registered jets but decreased for non-U.S.-registered ones

Fatal Business Jet Accidents Climbed Steeply in 2023

Gregory Polek

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Agency to reevaluate Boeing’s delegated authority and quality oversight

FAA To Audit Boeing Max 9 Production

Mark Huber

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

Airbus, Papillon agree to nine-figure settlement in 2018 Grand Canyon helitour accident

Parents of Helitour Crash Victim Receive $100 Million

Matt Thurber

News and issues concerning general aviation, specifically airplanes and helicopters powered by piston and alternative engines (i.e., non-turbine powered aircraft). Subjects include aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

NTSB report did not conclude that the pilot committed suicide

NTSB: Skydiving Pilot Involved in Fatal Plunge Had Used Kratom

Autopsy found cocaine metabolites in body of Australian helitour pilot

ATSB: Fatal Air Tour Midair Pilot Had Used Cocaine

New developments at airports including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

All passengers and crew of the destroyed JAL Airbus A350-900 survived

Fiery Crash at Tokyo Haneda Kills Five, Highlights String of Runway Incursions 

David Jack Kenny

Preliminary and final accident reports, January 2024

Business Aircraft Accident Reports: January 2024

Reports that the jet's wreckage was found might not be accurate

Mystery of Missing Gulfstream III Deepens

Kerry Lynch

An investigation did not find mechanical failures 

NTSB: Unknown Emergency Preceded Meridian Fatal Crash

NTSB faults pilot, instructor in 2022 fatal accident

Vortex Ring Drill Triggered Bell 429 In-flight Break-up

Slow airspeed and strong crosswind led to mishap

UK AAIB: Multiple Factors Led to Challenger Accident

The pilot and passenger were killed in the accident

PC-12 Crashes on Approach to San Angelo, Texas

Preliminary and final accident reports, December 2023

Business Aircraft Accident Reports: December 2023

Total accidents rise, but so do overall flight hours

AOPA: General Aviation Accident Rate Declines in 2021

Chad Trautvetter

Veering off of or overrunning runways is a leading cause of business jet accidents

NBAA Publishes Runway Excursion Prevention Guide

Stuart “Kipp” Lau

News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

Runway incursions involving business jets are on the rise as crews misunderstand line up and wait instructions

AINsight: Wait, Wait, Don’t Take Off!

A Raytheon Hawker 850 hit a Cessna Mustang landing on a crossing runway 

NTSB: Crew Ignored Instructions from ATC in Houston Bizjet Collision

News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

Issues regarding financing of aircraft; aviation insurance; tax issues for aircraft operators; new companies and people in the aviation financing and insurance industries.

Business aviation professionals urged to consider indemnity liability insurance

Protest Damage and Illegal Charters Fuel Insurance Concerns

Accidents