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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.

Pamphlet offers solid risk management guidance for helicopter pilots headed into mountainous terrain.

EHST Issues Tips for Flying Helicopters Around Mountains

Flight risk assessment tools shouldn’t be used as a black or white guide for flight approval.

Is a FRAT Undermining Your Safety Efforts?

Safe Flight’s late founder Leonard Greene and his son Randall win the sixth annual Nall award.

Safe Flight Pair Win Nall Award

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.

Circular adds much new Notam terminology, as well as a comprehensive runway contaminant list.

Updated AC Explains New Notam System

Users are urged to watch for parts from particular batch numbers.

Aircraft Fastener Added To Unapproved Parts List

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.

Passenger escapes with minor injuries.

Q400 Propeller Blade Punctures Cabin

Both pilots in a Part 121 cockpit can now be older than 60.

Two-Pilot Age Restriction Disappears

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

The chartered aircraft crashed just short of the runway at Panyagor in South Sudan.

Second HS-748 This Year Crashes in Africa

John Goglia

AIN Blog: Too Tired to Fly: Accountability for Time Management

Pilot squandered opportunities before the accident to recuperate from sleep loss.

NTSB Report Details Pilot’s Mismanagement of Rest Periods

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

Attitude recognition can be first step in accident prevention.

IHST: Bad Attitude Can Cause Accidents

Many of the new guidelines follow NTSB recommendations.

FAA Updates AC on Helicopter EMS Operations

Higher altitudes mean increased exposure to UV radiation.

Tips for High-Altitude Cancer Prevention

Awards to be presented at October 21 NBAA luncheon.

Five Companies Will Be Recognized for Long-Term Flight Safety

Standdown banquet energized by guest speaker John Travolta.

Safety Standdown Focused on Distraction Issues

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

Incursions climbed by 40 percent from 2012 to last year.

Italy Deals with Alarming Number of Runway Incursions

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

Funding shortages for modernization remain a formidable obstacle.

Canso Outlines Vision To Improve African Air Safety

NTSB gives tankers clean bill of health.

California Tanker Fleet Flying Again

Safety standdown begins in Orlando on October 20

Single-Pilot Safety Standdown at NBAA Convention

Bill Carey

U.S. authorities are set to begin screening travelers arriving from West Africa for the Ebola virus.

U.S. Will Screen for Ebola at Five Major Airports

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