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Final Report: Control lost on go-around
October 10, 2006, 7:24 AM
October 2006

Raytheon Beech King Air E90, New Roads, La., June 23, 2005–While making a go-around at False River Regional Airport, the 4,000-hour pilot lost control and the King Air pitched up, stalled and crashed into a cornfield. All five people on board were killed.

XZilon 3 revitalizes aircraft paint, provides fuel savings
October 10, 2006, 7:18 AM
July 2005

David Allen has been an aircraft detailer for almost 15 years. His Orlando-based Allen Groupe details aircraft interiors and exteriors out of locations in Indianapolis (IND), Atlanta (PDK), Orlando (MCO and ORL) and Palm Beach (PBI).

TBM accident probe highlights similar crashes
October 10, 2006, 7:10 AM
July 2005

An extensive investigation by a team from the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), with input from the French BEA, has failed to arrive at a positive cause for the crash of TBM 700 N30LT on Dec. 6, 2003, at England’s Oxford Airport.

Factual Report: Wx deteriorates in Conquest accident
October 10, 2006, 6:53 AM
October 2006

Cessna 425 Conquest I, Belgrade, Mont., Nov. 29, 2005–The pilot of the Conquest was killed and the aircraft was destroyed when it crashed 2.8 nm northeast of Gallatin Field Airport.

Factual Report: Pilot had previous accidents
October 10, 2006, 6:46 AM
October 2006

Cessna 425 Conquest I, Lone Tree, Colo., Aug.

Safety Board blames poor pilot skills for crash of FedEx MD-10
October 10, 2006, 6:41 AM
July 2005

The NTSB blamed the first officer’s poor techniques for the Dec. 18, 2003, crash of a FedEx Boeing MD-10-10F in Memphis, Tenn.

Preparing for Flight
October 10, 2006, 6:38 AM
July 2005

Bell/Agusta’s BA609 looks nothing like the finished article in the VMSIL. In place of a fuselage and wings, the tiltrotor’s systems, interfaced with an aircraft flight-simulation host computer, are spread across three separate areas in the lab.

Bell/Agusta 609 tiltrotor returns to flight status
October 10, 2006, 6:38 AM
July 2005

Pietro Venanzi took the left seat in the BA609 during the tiltrotor’s return to flight status, at Bell’s XworX center near Fort Worth, Texas, on June 3. The 80-minute hop in aircraft one (A/C1), witnessed by AIN, was not the Italian test pilot’s first time at the controls of the tiltrotor.

Preliminary Report: Embraer makes improper descent
October 10, 2006, 6:37 AM
October 2006

Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante, Pownal, Vt., Aug 4, 2006–The 2,875-hour ATP-rated pilot of Air Now’s EMB-110 was killed when the airplane hit a mountain in Vermont in instrument conditions after his second approach to William H. Morse State Airport.

Active Control Offers Improved Pilot Feedback
October 10, 2006, 6:34 AM
July 2005

BAE Systems in England has developed an active collective for helicopters that can be configured to provide infinitely variable levels of feedback to the pilot.

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