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Montgomery County Plane Crash: Two persons on board, a pilot and a passenger were also reported uninjured and fire and emergency officials worked late in the night to rescue them. A small plane crashed into the power lines of Montgomery County in the United States’ Maryland province on Sunday night resulting in widespread power outage across the state, reported the Washington Post. The plane crash resulted in an electricity cut-off that affected over 90,000 houses and residences in Montgomery County, almost equivalent to one-quarter of the county facing the outage.…

For the past few years, securing a pipeline of new pilots has been a primary concern for airlines around the world. In a 2019 Oliver Wyman poll of flight operations leaders, 62 percent listed a shortage of qualified pilots as a key risk. The root cause of the coming shortage varies by region: In the United States, it’s an aging workforce facing mandatory retirement, fewer pilots exiting the military, and barriers to entry, including the cost of training. In China and other regions where a burgeoning middle class is demanding…

Shortly after takeoff Friday morning from Indianapolis Regional Airport, pilot Timothy Borrup’s Cirrus Vision Jet SF50 started sputtering and stalling — and the plane started to “nose up” and lose power. That’s when Borrup, of Palm Bay, deployed the single-engine jet’s emergency parachute system. A large orange-and-white parachute billowed into shape in the sky, attached to the front of the aircraft. And, sitting in the pilot’s seat, Borrup floated back earthward before splashing down in a retention pond near Interstate 70 west of Greenfield, Ind., the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office reported in a press release. No injuries were reported…

The aviation industry has a host of different career options to offer. From Airport Systems Management to Ground Handling, if you are looking to build a career in aviation, there really are a lot of options. As part of our career in aviation series, here are 4 more career options in the aviation industry. Airport Duty Management: Airport duty managers are responsible for overseeing all aspects of airport operations while the airport is closed. They ensure that everything is in place and ready to go when the airport opens in…

European aviation regulator EASA is looking into the possibility to start single-pilot flight operations. In a ICAO working paper, EASA requested – on behalf of member states – that the “necessary enablers” be created “for a safe and globally harmonized introduction of commercial air transport (CAT) operations of large aircraft with optimised crew/single-pilot operations while ensuring an equivalent or higher level of safety compared to that achieved in current operations.” While manufacturers are confident about the implementation, pilot associations are more cautious. What in case of an incapacitation ? How about…

The European Union reportedly has Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s national flag carrier, in its crosshairs due to the airline’s alleged role in trafficking migrants to Belarus. If Brussels goes forward with sanctions against the airline, they would constitute the European Union’s first concrete pushback against Ankara’s ongoing protection of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko from accountability for human rights violations. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday that the European Union is exploring “how to sanction, including through blacklisting, third-country airlines that are active in human trafficking” by flying migrants to Belarus. Since June, the…

A military helicopter. performing a training flight, crashed in a residential area in Istanbul not far from the Sancaktape air base after colliding with the roof of a building. Four occupants died in the crash, one was injured. A military Bell UH-1 helicopter crashed in a residential area in Istanbul in Turkey on Monday, killing four soldiers and injuring one. The helicopter crashed on a street between apartments in Sancaktepe district, where a military base is situated.