HK soars into world's top five on air safety strategies

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=85653&sid=24770264&con_type=1

Airbus Offers to Pay for Extended Crash Search

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/world/europe/31plane.html?_r=1

Airbus Asks Airlines to Install Goodrich Sensors

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_RjA4KU5LOM

Up in the Air: New Worries About ‘Fume Events’ on Planes

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204900904574302293012711628.html

Qantas marks 50 years of jets across the Pacific

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/07/qantas-marks-50-years-of-jets.html

American Airlines Jet Forced to Land After Bird Strike

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535441,00.html?test=latestnews

Turkish Airlines places $1.9 billion order for Boeing 777s

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/174789.asp

Pilots report problem with Air France speed sensors

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE56R6CE20090728http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE56R6CE20090728

Runway scare as jet wheel snaps

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25844287-661,00.html

FAA seeks rapid overhaul of rules that govern pilot training and scheduling for regional airlines

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/07/regional_airlines.html

Despite 2009 Accidents, Flight Safety Is Improving

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,638455,00.html

More Cockpit Conversation from Flight 3407 Released

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbfo/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1535081/WBFO.News/More.Cockpit.Conversation.from.Flight.3407.Released

Major Oops Could Cost Airline Big Money

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Major-Oops-Could-Cost-Airlne-Big-Money.html

Qantas jet loses air pressure during flight

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE56P01Y20090726

Boeing eyes Dreamliner solution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8163038.stm

AF Flight 447: French Prosecutor Opens Judicial Investigation For Manslaughter

http://luckybogey.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/af-flight-447-french-prosecutor-opens-judicial-investigation-for-manslaughter/

Pilot training is the key to recovering airline safety

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/21/329784/comment-pilot-training-is-the-key-to-recovering-airline.html

Europe bans “unsafe” airlines from airspace of 27 member countries

http://www.examiner.com/x-16024-Europe-Policy-Examiner~y2009m7d15-Europe-bans-unsafe-airlines-from-airspace-of-27-member-countries

Tupolev Plane in Iran Crash Trails 737 Safety Record

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=afwX0a3ATjSM

Iran airline crash: What’s the Russian jet’s safety record?

http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/07/15/iran-airline-crash-whats-the-russian-jets-safety-record/

Air disasters raise concerns on safety

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-07-15-worldcrashes_N.htm

NTSB: Jet's design limited tear's damage

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-14-southwest-plane-hole_N.htm

Emirates Pilot Tells Story About A340 Tail Strike

Officials say it was the closest thing Australia has had to a major air catastrophe, and after 4 months of silence, the pilot has finally told his story to the Australia Herald Sun...

The A340 was fully loaded with 257 passengers and 18 crew on board. As it approached the end of the runway of Melbourne Airport on its takeoff roll, the pilot knew they were not fast enough to provide the required lift. He pushed the engines to 'Take Off And Go-Around' power and rotated, bouncing the tail of the Airbus three times off the pavement and hitting the REIL lights at the end of the runway as the airplane finally became airborne. After 30 minutes dumping fuel over Port Phillip Bay, they returned to Melbourne and landed safely, but the Emirates pilot was badly shaken.

The pilot said he still doesn't know exactly how he managed to get the Airbus in the air. "I . . . sort of reacted on instinct," he told the Herald Sun. "I had a feeling that (something) wasn't working, but I couldn't find out what was wrong. I knew I couldn't stop. At that point I knew we just had to go. And we got it off the ground, miraculously."Safety investigators found that the First Officer was flying the plane when the Captain called "Rotate". When it failed to fly, he called "Rotate" again, which caused the first tail strike. It was then that he pushed the plane to Take Off and Go-Around power and hit the tail again as they became airborne. Once off the ground, they realized that the calculated departure weight was 100 tons lighter than the actual weight of the airplane. While the crew is not responsible for entering the takeoff weight, they are responsible for checking that it is correct. The typo meant incorrect calculations of takeoff power and requisite speeds. According to the Herald Sun, the pilot has left Dubai with his family and returned to Europe, where he is from. He reportedly had slept only 3 1/2 hours in the 24 before he was scheduled to fly, and both he and the co-pilot were handed prepared letters of resignation when they returned to Dubai after the incident. There were four pilots on board the aircraft, including two relief pilots, due to the 14 1/2 hour length of the flight from Melbourne to Dubai.Officials say it was the closest thing Australia has had to a major air catastrophe, and after 4 months of silence, the pilot has finally told his story to the Australia Herald Sun...The A340 was fully loaded with 257 passengers and 18 crew on board. As it approached the end of the runway of Melbourne Airport on its takeoff roll, the pilot knew they were not fast enough to provide the required lift. He pushed the engines to 'Take Off And Go-Around' power and rotated, bouncing the tail of the Airbus three times off the pavement and hitting the REIL lights at the end of the runway as the airplane finally became airborne. After 30 minutes dumping fuel over Port Phillip Bay, they returned to Melbourne and landed safely, but the Emirates pilot was badly shaken. The pilot said he still doesn't know exactly how he managed to get the Airbus in the air. "I . . . sort of reacted on instinct," he told the Herald Sun. "I had a feeling that (something) wasn't working, but I couldn't find out what was wrong. I knew I couldn't stop. At that point I knew we just had to go. And we got it off the ground, miraculously."Safety investigators found that the First Officer was flying the plane when the Captain called "Rotate". When it failed to fly, he called "Rotate" again, which caused the first tail strike. It was then that he pushed the plane to Take Off and Go-Around power and hit the tail again as they became airborne. Once off the ground, they realized that the calculated departure weight was 100 tons lighter than the actual weight of the airplane. While the crew is not responsible for entering the takeoff weight, they are responsible for checking that it is correct. The typo meant incorrect calculations of takeoff power and requisite speeds.

According to the Herald Sun, the pilot has left Dubai with his family and returned to Europe, where he is from. He reportedly had slept only 3 1/2 hours in the 24 before he was scheduled to fly, and both he and the co-pilot were handed prepared letters of resignation when they returned to Dubai after the incident. There were four pilots on board the aircraft, including two relief pilots, due to the 14 1/2 hour length of the flight from Melbourne to Dubai.

Plane Crash Leaves 168 Dead in Iran

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/world/middleeast/16plane.html?hpw

FAA, NTSB probe hole in Southwest 737

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/07/13/daily20.html

Southwest Hasn’t Found Flaws in 737 Checks After Hole in Jet

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAUNtGvAnEOI

Instructor pilots sue Boeing over possible layoffs

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/173622.asp?from=blog_last3

Report Faults Air France's Safety Record

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2009/gb20090713_426387.htm

Airlines Study Alternatives to Jets’ Black Boxes

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/14blackbox.html

Say it ain't so: The 787 possibly just a 'mediocre aircraft'

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/173496.asp

Kennedy Airport runway to be closed for 4 months

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/kennedy-airport-runway-to-be-closed-for-4-months-1.1305873

UN agency rejects EU call for global airline blacklist

http://www.euractiv.com/en/transport/un-agency-rejects-eu-call-global-airline-blacklist/article-183947

Air France pilots blame safety agencies for crash of Flight 447

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6675343.ece

NASA Funding Air Turbulence Prediction System

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218400831

EASA prepares for MRO oversight retaliation against USA

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/07/329283/easa-prepares-for-mro-oversight-retaliation-against.html

Passenger fixes faulty airliner

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8136193.stm

U.K. Pilots Demand Police Crackdown on Laser Attacks

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=apBDCMVG5BGE

AF447: Loss of contact opens rift between Brazil and Senegal

Initial details of the handover of Air France flight AF447 from Brazil to Senegal have opened a rift between the two states, as investigators attempt to establish how long the Airbus A330 was out of contact before a formal emergency alert was declared. Preliminary findings into the loss of the AF447 indicate that, after the jet failed to respond to radio calls shortly before leaving Brazilian airspace, several hours elapsed while controllers in 10 different flight information regions tried to determine the aircraft's position.

Circumstances of the loss - close to the Brazil-Senegal oceanic airspace boundary, where responsibility for the flight is handed over - have made the transfer issue a sensitive matter. France's Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses (BEA) states that the flight "was not transferred" between Brazil's Atlantico and Senegal's Dakar oceanic centres. This has been backed by West African air navigation service ASECNA.

But the Brazilian air force says it wants to "eliminate doubts" about the procedures followed. It has publicly issued an audio segment of the moment the Atlantico controller co-ordinated transfer of AF447 to Dakar, when the A330 was estimating reaching the Brazil-Senegal airspace boundary - the waypoint designated TASIL - at 02:20UTC. Only changes in excess of 3min to this estimated time would have required further co-ordination with Dakar. But the estimate was never revised because the Atlantico controller could not raise AF447 after the last radio contact at 01:35UTC.

As a result, argues the air force, Dakar "theoretically" assumed control of the aircraft at 02:20UTC. But in a statement ASECNA claims the "onus" was on the Atlantico controller to call his counterpart at Dakar centre to confirm the aircraft's arrival at the airspace boundary. "This formality was not performed," it says, and the aircraft did not contact Dakar to "signal its presence".

ASECNA rejects as "totally unfounded" the Brazilian suggestion that aircraft can be assumed to have entered Dakar airspace if the Dakar centre does not warn otherwise. But BEA's interim report into the crash highlights a September 2008 agreement between the Atlantico and Dakar centres which was in force at the time of the crash.

This states that air crews must contact the receiving sector controller 5min before the airspace boundary, but also that controllers in the receiving sector must inform the exiting sector if they cannot establish contact with an aircraft within 3min of the estimated time of arrival.

BEA warns against drawing early conclusions over the search and rescue situation, stating that its chronology of subsequent air traffic control communications is "still fragmentary".

But the interim report states that Dakar controllers worked with a 'virtual' track of AF447 in the absence of radio contact and a confirmed trajectory. There was no log-on to the Dakar automatic dependent surveillance tracking system. Some 28 minutes after the estimated entry of AF447 into Dakar oceanic airspace, the Dakar controller informed the adjacent centre, Cape Verde Sal, that the aircraft had not yet made contact. More than an hour later, at 03:54UTC, with AF447 running 9min behind the projected time to enter Sal airspace, Sal called Dakar for an update, and was told that AF447 had not contacted Dakar to revise its estimates.Sal informed Dakar at 04:07UTC that it was tracking a second Air France flight, AF459, which had been some 37min behind AF447. This second aircraft failed to raise AF447 on the radio. At 04:21UTC Dakar called Atlantico centre to confirm the whether AF447 had exited Brazilian airspace at TASIL in line with the original estimate.

BEA's partial chronology does not yet include full information from the Atlantico and Sal centres. But the Brazilian air force states that, after Dakar queried AF447's position with Atlantico, the Recife-based Salvaero search and rescue division "initiated necessary actions to start air operations to locate the missing aircraft" at 05:20UTC. By this time Air France was also trying to confirm the flight's position and, over a period of about three hours, the carrier and several other control centres - among them Canarias, Santa Maria, Casablanca, Lisboa, Madrid and Brest - exchanged information in a bid to establish the aircraft's whereabouts. At one stage, the BEA chronology shows, the flight was erroneously reported to have been in contact with Moroccan air traffic control.

Air France and Brest centre informed BEA of the situation shortly after 07:41UTC. Madrid centre issued an 'alert' emergency phase at 08:15UTC and Brest launched a 'distress' phase about 20min later.

BEA releases interim report on Air France Airbus A330 accident

The French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses (BEA) released an interim report based on the initial evidence gathered in the course of the investigation of the June 2 accident involving an Air France A330.

Some of the findings are:

* the meteorological situation was typical of that encountered in the month of June in the inter-tropical convergence zone;

* there were powerful cumulonimbus clusters on the route of AF447. Some of them could have been the centre of some notable turbulence;

* several airplanes that were flying before and after AF 447, at about the same altitude, altered their routes in order to avoid cloud masses;

* twenty-four automatic maintenance messages were received between 02:10 and 02:15 via the ACARS system. These messages show inconsistency between the measured speeds as well as the associated consequences;

* visual examination showed that the airplane was not destroyed in flight; it appears to have struck the surface of the sea in a straight line with high vertical acceleration.

Air France jet 'broke on impact'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8130989.stm

Air France plane did not break up in flight - report

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/02/air.france.report/index.html

Airbus could be asked to ground all long-range airliners

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6612165.ece

How do people survive airline crashes?

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/06/30/air.crash.survivors/index.html

FAA Begins Reviewing Israel's Progress on Air Safety

http://www.charterx.com/resources/article.aspx?id=4439

France: Yemenia plane's distress signals located, not 'black boxes'

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/yemen.plane/index.html

Bird Strike Endangers LaGuardia Plane Again!

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Birds-Strike-Again-at-La-Guardia-.html

Yemeni Crash Boosts Scrutiny of Air Safety in Emerging Nations

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aw0W49DK4.TU

Air France Probe Complicated as Black Box Sound Emitters Fade

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=abcRM5fqeaco

Yemen jet crashes in Indian Ocean

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8125664.stm

The importance of Flight 447's missing black boxes

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0625/p02s14-usgn.html

Inquiry to Focus on Flights’ Sensor Malfunctions

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/americas/26france.html?ref=global-home

Boeing again delays initial 787 test flight

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009373039_apusboeing7873rdldwritethru.html

Japan govt plans emergency loan to Japan Airlines

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUST9013420090622

FAA Agrees to Improvements for Pilot Training and Safety Programs

"We must inspire confidence in every traveler, every time he or she steps onto an airplane,"

http://www.charterx.com/resources/article.aspx?id=4384

Schwarzenegger jet makes "steep" emergency landing

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55J0CE20090620

Air France pays $24,500 to crash victims' families

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/06/20/france.brazil.crash/index.html

Air France had nine speed probe incidents in past year: report

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ijQ2XuqVZ94caKa7Dz9gWufrkCtg

Ocean Combed for Jet Data in Biggest Aviation Search

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/world/20plane.html?_r=1&ref=world

Eye-in-Sky Satellite Storm Alert May Avert Future Air Disasters

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=a.s6Gdc8Ww8s

Manufacturer optimistic of finding AF447 flight data recorder

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/18/air.france.blackbox/

Plane, vehicle near a collision

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/19/plane_vehicle_near_a_collision/

Air France crash sparks black box debate

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLH122558

Regulators Zero in on Risks of Airbus Sensors

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/world/europe/18iht-plane.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

Update on the Air France crash

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/06/update-on-the-air-france-crash.html

FAA to tell airlines to check pilots' test records

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/48139667.html

Flight computers at heart of Air France crash?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0617/p02s04-usgn.html

Air Safety Experts: Improve Black Boxes

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2009/gb20090611_893199.htm

Air France jet had rudder issues

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Air-France-jet-had-rudder.5364663.jp

A330 Accident: Pitot Tubes Not to Blame?

http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/a330-accident-pitot-tubes-not-to-blame/

Senator: FAA must require full pilot-training histories

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-10-ntsb_N.htm

NTSB probes jet design in Hudson landing

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-10-ntsb-hudson-hearing_N.htm

Safety Experts Call for Airborne 'Black Box' Data Stream

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,629249,00.html

Pilots fined for crashing commercial jet

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Pilots_fined_for_crashing_commercial_jet.html?siteSect=104&sid=10799940&cKey=1244531969000&ty=nd

FAA to inspect pilot training at regional airlines

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8548997

Small fire extinguished on JAL jet

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/08/Small-fire-extinguished-on-JAL-jet/UPI-59741244501039/

Experience averts tragedy in Hudson landing

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-08-hudson_N.htm

Part of Air France jet's tail found by Brazil navy

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/09/world/fg-brazil-crash9

Close call at O’Hare: FAA cites controller error involving 2 airliners coming into airport

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jun/06/local/chi-ohare-close-call_06jun06

Airports urged to study bird-strike risks

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-06-04-airports-bird-strikes_N.htm

Holiday plane dodged military jet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/8085045.stm

Air France jet's flight-control system under scrutiny

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/05/world/fg-brazil-crash5

Air France Crash May Show Pilots Can Be Overwhelmed by Weather

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aFSnuIjppjK4&refer=europe

Minute's silence on first A380 flight from Paris

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/minutes-silence-on-first-a380-flight-from-paris-20090603-buuv.html

Airport Check-in: Some fear trash center would attract birds

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2009-05-31-airport-checkin-laguardia-cleveland-philadelphia_N.htm

AI, Jet planes in near-collision at Mumbai airport

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Air-mishap-averted-at-Mumbai-airport/articleshow/4599936.cms

SIA A380 Airbus Experience Engine Failure

http://singaporenewsalternative.blogspot.com/2009/05/sia-a380-airbus-experience-engine.html

Boeing 787 On Track To Fly In June - CEO

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1243459904.html

26 MAY 2009 AAIB: final report on Boeing 737-300 stall during a go-around

http://aviation-safety.net/news/news.php?var=200905%25#2155

Jet Pilot in Near Miss Criticized

The man who killed a Danish air traffic controller after his wife and children died in a midair collision has called for the pilot involved in a near miss near Moscow last month to be stripped of his license.

Two Russian passenger jets carrying 300 passengers nearly collided after taking off from Moscow's Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports on April 24. Investigators say the pilot of one of the planes, a Tu-154, inexplicably descended into the path of the other plane, a Boeing 767, and a crash was only averted by a quick-thinking air traffic controller.

"I believe such pilots should not be allowed near a plane at all," said Vitaly Kaloyev, a North Ossetian architect sentenced to 5 1/2 years in a Swiss prison for the killing but released early for good behavior, RIA-Novosti reported.

Kaloyev's wife and two children died when a Tu-154 and a cargo jet collided over southern Germany in 2002 in a crash blamed on the Danish air trffic controller

ttp://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/377197.htm

GE joint venture reveals new jet engine details

http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/05/11/daily45.html

Buffalo crash exposes gaps in safety

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-14-buffalocrash_N.htm

Tired and Confused, Doomed Pilots Made Bad Choices

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/nyregion/15pilot.html?hpw

Crash hearing may lead to changes in regional airlines' operations

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/industries/airlines/stories/051509dnbuspilothearing.3cc1d42.html

Pilots Set Up for Fatigue, Officials Say

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/nyregion/14pilot.html?_r=1&hp

Final UPS DC-8 flight lands at Louisville International Airport

http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2009/05/11/daily33.html

El Al to sue state over U.S. flight safety downgrade

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084836.html

Buffalo crash: Pilots acted 'just opposite' of normal practices

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-12-buffalo-crash-side_N.htm

Flight attendant arrested for trying to get guns through security

http://www.gadling.com/2009/05/04/flight-attendant-arrested-for-trying-to-get-guns-through-securit/

Airlines Seek to Reassure Passengers in Outbreak

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/business/global/04iht-air.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=global-home

EMIRATES pilots are telling the Sunday Herald Sun that fatigue is a problem within the airline.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25419138-24218,00.html

World Market for Aircraft MRO to Reach $55.2 Billion by 2015

http://www.amtonline.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=8074

Weight error caused Australia plane scare: officials

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hSN1g_UUaj8mQhE8XO0u5x0VxvFQ

Old emergency beacons go dead

http://newsminer.com/news/2009/apr/12/old-emergency-beacons-go-dead/?opinion

Indonesia jails Garuda pilot over 2007 crash

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/04/06/324825/indonesia-jails-garuda-pilot-over-2007-crash.html

Roseville Man Indicted In Laser Case

http://www.kcra.com/news/19081862/detail.html

European Parliament Advances Single Sky

http://www.btnonline.com/businesstravelnews/headlines/frontpage_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003956469

FAA to seal bird-strike records

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-03-26-faa-birds_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Good marks for Macau in aviation safety oversight audit

http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24264&Itemid=28

EU won't blacklist Israeli airliners

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237114830570&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

NTSB to Rolls Royce: Redesign Trent 800 series engines

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/03/ntsb-to-rolls-royce-redesign-t.html

Police Arrest Burien Resident For Airplane Laser Incidents

http://www.b-townblog.com/2009/03/08/police-arrest-burien-resident-for-airplane-laser-incidents/

Air Canada pilots report being flashed by laser

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/596520

Boeing Issues Reminder After Netherlands Crash

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=7007306&page=1

Getting Enough Sleep

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/business/03rest.html?_r=2&ref=business

9 Killed as a Turkish Airlines Plane Crashes in Amsterdam

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/world/europe/26amsterdam.html?hp

Hudson pilot urges safety funding

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7908508.stm

Low-speed manoeuvre blamed for Air NZ crash

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/25/2500673.htm?section=world

F.A.A. Often Takes Years to Carry Out Lessons From Air Crashes

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/nyregion/23safety.html?ref=nyregion

More air accidents but fewer die in 2008-IATA

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLJ53207420090219?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

Crash experts focus on sharp rise of plane's nose

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-19-crash_N.htm

In Buffalo, a reminder of lingering air safety issues

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-15-air-crash_N.htm

Tail-plane stalls, icing, airplane accidents and NASA

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/02/tail-plane-stalls-airplane-acc.html

Sea-Tac Airport installs nation’s first bird radar

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2009/02/16/daily2.html

Search for answers begins in Buffalo plane crash

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/13/plane.crash.new.york/index.html

Commercial plane crashes into N.Y. hamlet, killing 49

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/02/13/commercial_plane_crashes_into_ny_hamlet_killing_49/

FAA plan could mean new $40M center in KC

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/02/09/daily37.html

Memphis airport runway to be rebuilt

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-02-10-memphis-runway-rebuilt_N.htm

Italians join NTSB in probe of bird collisions

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-02-09-birds_N.htm

Europe To Mandate ADS-B Five Years Ahead of FAA

http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/europe-to-mandate-ads-b-five-years-ahead-of-faa/

American Airlines urges pilots to restart safety program

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/020609dnbusasap.3a8f08b.html

Study Spotlights Helicopter Dangers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123370317612745375.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Boeing issues warning to 777 operators

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/161140.asp?source=mypi

Expert: Air-ambulance crews among most likely to die

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-02-03-medchopper_N.htm

FAA: Serious Runway Incursions Decline

http://www.aviationnews.net/?do=headline&news_ID=163621

Radar system is for the birds

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/01/radar-system-is.html

Ohio Man to Serve 3 Years in Prison for Pointing Laser at Planes

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482745,00.html

Israel Prepares to Overhaul Air Safety Operations

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129596

Qantas Flight Grounded After Dog in Cargo Chews Wiring

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481476,00.html

Global airline accident analysis for 2008

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/01/19/321124/global-airline-accident-analysis-for-2008.html

Backup System Helped Pilot Control Jet

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123241485664396363.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Mystery surrounds Air NZ plane crash

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/mystery-surrounds-air-nz-plane-crash-20090119-7k63.html

Cockpit Tape Reveals Engine Loss and a ‘Mayday’

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/nyregion/19plane.html?ref=nyregio

Cockpit Tape Reveals Engine Loss and a ‘Mayday’

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/16/new-york-plane-crash-hudson-river-sullenberger-pilot

Airlines go two years with no fatalities

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-01-11-airlinesafety_N.htm

Data Retrieved From Airbus Crash as Investigation Continues

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123142785680664549.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Warning issued to airlines flying Airbuses

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/786503

Safety Bid Accelerates For Airbus Jetliners

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123128402658958947.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Investigators Focus on Likely Wind Gust in Denver Crash

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123076650861346631.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

2008 air safety profile

http://aviation-safety.net/database/year.php?year=2008

Pilots in warning on blinding effects of lasers

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1229/1229728603490.html

Global airline accidents snapshot for 2008 to 23 December

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/12/23/320483/global-airline-accidents-snapshot-for-2008-to-23-december.html

5 Still in Hospital After Denver Jet Crash

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/us/22crash.html?ref=us

NTSB Issues Safety Alert on Operating Aircraft in Icing

http://www.amtonline.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=7016

Nigeria: World Bank Grants $46 Million for Aviation Safety Projects

http://allafrica.com/stories/200812190198.html

Storm Brewing Between FAA and Weather Service

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2008/12/the_bush_administration_is_con.html?hpid=topnews

Couple accuse United Airlines of overserving husband, causing him to beat wife

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/dec/17/travel/chi-wed-overserved-united-uauadec17

L.A. airport agency gets poor marks for emergency response

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/17/local/me-laxaudit17

‘Black Box’ as Safety Device

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/business/16box.html?_r=1&ref=business

US Airways Pilots Halt Voluntary Data-Sharing Program

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122939040059509171.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Pilots fired after take-off blunder

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/12/15/2003431142

Pilots May Face Greater Cancer Risk

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/12/11/pilots-may-face-greater-cancer-risk.html

Brazil blames U.S. pilots in Gol crash: paper

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4B51BF20081206

Vietnam' s aviation safety praised

http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/?catid=1&newsid=44265

FAA Gives ADS-B Sat Tracking Of Aircraft The Go Ahead

http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=608377597

EU-US civil aviation safety agreement ready for take-off

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?language=IT&type=IM-PRESS&reference=20081201IPR43350

Misconfigured A330 flight computers led to severe hard landing: EASA

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/11/29/319522/misconfigured-a330-flight-computers-led-to-severe-hard-landing-easa.html

Airbus crash kills 2; 5 missing

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-27-france-airbus-crash_N.htm

FBI looks into 9 reports of lasers pointed at Twin Cities aircraft

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/35107964.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Turkish minister says pilots responsible for deadly Atlasjet crash

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10441494.asp?gid=244

Daytona airport wins FAA safety award

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2008/11/17/daily25.html

Air hostess helped land passenger jet after co-pilot had 'breakdown' over the Atlantic Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1087523/Air-hostess-helped-land-passenger-jet-pilot-breakdown-Atlantic.html

New runways open at 3 of nation's busiest airports

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/11/20/new.runways/index.html

U.S. FAA downgrades Israel's aviation safety ranking

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038947.html

Brazil crash report blames govt agencies -media

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1546133720081115http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSN1546133720081115

Canadian Air Crash Kills Seven

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/world/americas/17canada.html?_r=1&ref=world

Officials say FAA covered up safety errors at Texas airport

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/reports/2008-11-13-faa-coverup_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Pilots worried about 'stupid hobby' of shining laser lights at planes

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/11/12/planes-lasers.html

Research shows pilot training is the best investment against catastrophic accident risk

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/11/12/318697/research-shows-pilot-training-is-the-best-investment-against-catastrophic-accident.html

Montreal pilots flashed with laser during landings

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081111/montreal_pilots_laser_081111/20081111?hub=Canada

Angola: All Angolan airlines banned from flying to Europe

http://www.macauhub.com.mo/en/news.php?ID=6368

Rise in Collision Hazards for Planes Spurs Changes

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122600460761406097.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Cyprus to Prosecute Five People Over Airplane Crash in 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=ajU_6afSQZ4E&refer=europe

Pilot allowed to fly despite positive test for explosive

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24604386-23349,00.html

Controller Not Required to Know Procedure, FAA Says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004436.html

SFO to test system that checks runway traffic

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/30/BAKU13QL29.DTL

NTSB seeks fixes to air-ambulance safety

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-28-ntsb_N.htm

Danish low-cost airline Sterling, to file for bankruptcy

http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?tp=on&autono=48598

Chilling details of a Seattle flight revealed

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/384988_jetscare25.html?source=mypi

The new Concorde: Supersonic jet will get you from London to New York in just three hours

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1079963/The-new-Concorde-Supersonic-jet-London-New-York-just-hours.html

Safety slip in Madrid crash also seen in U.S.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-10-22-madridcrash_N.htm

Human error stubborn snag in airline safety

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-22-insidecrash_N.htm

Eurocontrol: first airlines obtain ADS-B airworthiness approval

http://www.avionews.com/index.php?corpo=see_news_home.php&news_id=1095558&pagina_chiamante=index.php

Lessons Learned From Transport Airplane Accidents

http://accidents-ll.faa.gov/

FAA looks at videos taken in cockpits

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/382219_horizon08.html

RP expects FAA to upgrade safety rating

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20081008-165353/RP-expects-FAA-to-upgrade-safety-rating

Qantas jet plunge passengers to be interviewed over laptop use

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/3160329/Qantas-jet-plunge-passengers-to-be-interviewed-over-laptop-use.html

Data shows Qantas jet in two sudden plunges

http://www.theage.com.au/national/data-shows-qantas-jet-in-two-sudden-plunges-20081009-4xo4.html

Qantas jet plunge blamed on computer

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/10/09/1223145493800.html

Pilot error not to blame for Madrid air crash, say investigators

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/3165478/Pilot-error-not-to-blame-for-Madrid-air-crash-say-investigators.html

After flight delay, man accused of spraying powder in plane

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/10/after_delay_man.html

Up to 40 injured in Qantas mid-air jet 'upset'

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRwyTQv8kp88rBqymM-LJIPZzUyg

Air traffic union fights ‘frivolous’ FAA probe

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/2008_09_30_Air_traffic_union_fights_%E2%80%98frivolous__FAA_probe/

Collision risk high on U.S. airport runways: safety expert

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/25/airport-collisions.html

Pilots warn of laser beam crash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7641453.stm

Wheelchair on plane bursts into flames

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4810663.ece

Diverted American Airlines flight rolls off runway

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2247871720080922

Air Canada planes collide on runway

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=1f2c2996-82fd-42e0-90b5-ce9f9c4d3e3f

Wing flaps and alarm failed on Madrid crash jet

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Wing-flaps-and-alarm-failed.4498114.jp

88 killed in Aeroflot crash in Urals

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4751854.ece

Plane returns after 'tail strike'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7611268.stm

Pilot Fatigue Spurs Calls for New Safeguards

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122117729872125851.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Plane cabin air quality comes under scrutiny

http://www.smh.com.au/news/news/australian-plane-cabin-air-quality-under-scrutiny/2008/09/11/1220857720569.html

For air controller, terror still vivid 7 years later

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-09-11-911controller_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

When a Tragedy Becomes a Crime: Prosecutors Probe Air Disasters

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122090744818111657.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

EU authorities seek to promote air safety

http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/news/2008/09/04/3634125.htm

Airline safety review after BA Heathrow crash

http://www.holidayextras.co.uk/news/airport/airline-safety-review-ba-heathrow-crash-4625.html

CASA rules Qantas maintenance below par

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/casa-rules-qantas-maintenance-below-par/1259946.aspx

Air France 747 slides off Montreal runway; no injuries

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/08/27/air-france.html

After flight delays, FAA may add backup system

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10027667-92.html

IFR pilots need to actively maintain awareness of severe weather along their route of flight

http://ntsb.gov/alerts/SA_011.pdf

European Aviation Safety Agency to participate in Madrid plane crash investigation

http://euroalert.net/en/news.aspx?idn=7727

Mid-flight scare as Ryanair jet makes emergency landing

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4610209.ece

About 150 killed leaving Madrid on Spanair flight

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/world/europe/20iht-spain.4.15477425.html

Laser blinds passenger jet pilot

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7568645.stm

Holiday flight is diverted after mid-air brawl breaks out

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1045660/Holiday-flight-diverted-mid-air-brawl-breaks-out.html

Pilots name Logan 'Airport of the Year'

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/BIZ/80812063

Florida Man Arrested for Shining Laser at Police Helicopter

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402481,00.html

American Airlines Flight Attendants Under Fire

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121806957007518857.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Row of seats on United Airlines flight comes loose forcing emergency landing at Sea-Tac

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008090782_webunited04m.html

Qantas quick to defend safety record after fourth incident in two weeks

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/airlines/news/article.cfm?c_id=113&objectid=10525309

Flight attendants ask Qantas to explain incidentsFlight attendants ask Qantas to explain incidents

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080803034151.ll2gornc&show_article=1

House committee moves to ban in-flight cell phone use

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10004170-1.html

Ireland wants EASA to tighten business aviation safety rules

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/07/29/226173/ireland-wants-easa-to-tighten-business-aviation-safety.html

Air-ambulance pilots push for night goggles

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-17-goggles_N.htm

Holiday jet passenger tried to open aircraft door at 35,000 feet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/jul/18/flights.theairlineindustry

Pilots say they feel pressure to cut back on fuel

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/16/pilots.fuel/index.html

Air Traffic Control System on the Verge of Collapse?

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/Story?id=5252773&page=1

In a plane crash safest seats are in aisle

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4214998.ece

Man accused of pointing laser at aircraft indicted

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/06/man_accused_of_pointing_laser.html

FAA Raises Safety Rating for Bulgaria

http://www.ftnnews.com/content/view/2194/27/lang,english/

FAA Focusing on Pilot Deviations

http://www.avtoday.com/vlj/categories/atc/22763.htm

Controller Wash-Out Rate Added To Push For More Money

http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1143-full.html#198116

Polish pilots' poor English almost led to crash

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4116523.ece

Qantas flight from Melbourne hit by laser

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23834938-661,00.html

ICAO members agree to transparency in safety audits

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/06/04/224450/icao-members-agree-to-transparency-in-safety-audits.html

New small jets spur concerns

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-06-03-small-jets_N.htm

FAA Makes Progress On Runway Safety

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=busav&id=news/bb_runway07159.xml

Airlines Study Alternatives to Jets’ Black Boxes

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/business/14blackbox.html

Report Faults Air France's Safety Record

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2009/gb20090713_426387.htm