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Preliminary Report: Bandeirante cargo flight crashes
September 28, 2006, 4:45 AM
January 2006

Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante, Manchester, N.H., Nov. 8, 2005–Business Air’s cargo flight crashed into a Wal-Mart garden center shortly after takeoff from Manchester Airport in VMC. The 3,612-hour ATP pilot, who had 137 hours in the Bandeirante (and a type rating), was seriously injured.

Preliminary Report: Helicopters collide near NASCAR track
September 28, 2006, 4:41 AM
January 2006

Aerospatiale AS 350B/Eurocopter EC 130B4, Homestead, Fla., Nov. 21, 2005– The two helicopters collided near the Homestead-Miami Speedway and the commercial pilot of HelicopterShuttle.com EC 130 N130HS was killed.

Modified G550 to serve as platform for science studies
September 28, 2006, 4:38 AM
October 2006

The German aerospace research office, the DLR, is preparing for the 2009 introduction of a modified Gulfstream G550. The long-range business jet will be fitted with a host of special instruments for atmospheric research.

Preliminary Report: Sikorsky loses power over gulf
September 28, 2006, 4:33 AM
January 2006

Sikorsky S-76A, Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Sept. 6, 2005–The NTSB has released the preliminary report on the Houston Helicopters Sikorsky S-76A accident in the Gulf of Mexico.

Security officials unlikely to budge on Washington ADIZ
September 28, 2006, 4:32 AM
October 2006

Despite some 20,000 negative comments and calls to abolish the Washington, D.C., air defense identification zone (ADIZ), a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill resulted in little progress in making flying in or near the large block of airspace less onerous for general aviation pilots.

Preliminary Report: Conquest crashes in snow and fog
September 28, 2006, 4:30 AM
January 2006

Cessna 425 Conquest I, Bozeman, Mont., Nov. 29, 2005–Salt Lake Center had cleared Conquest N701QR for the procedure turn to a holding pattern at 12:40 p.m. and told the pilot to contact Gallatin Field, his destination.

ARG/US versus CharterX/Wyvern
September 28, 2006, 4:29 AM
October 2006

Two leading providers of charter industry information are embroiled in a heated legal dispute focused on the alleged acquisition and misuse of proprietary data.

Preliminary Report: Pilot admits distraction in Caravan crash
September 28, 2006, 4:28 AM
January 2006

Cessna Caravan 208B, Unalakleet, Alaska, Oct. 24, 2005–Caravan N1263Y was substantially damaged when it hit the ground during low-level cruise flight, about 17 miles south of Unalakleet, the flight’s destination.

Preliminary Report: Distraction might be a factor in gear-up landing
September 28, 2006, 4:27 AM
January 2006

Learjet 25D, Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 26, 2005–On base leg for landing at Sacramento’s McClellan AFB, the pilot of Learjet N888DV was distracted by a helicopter transmitting over the common traffic advisory frequency.

Congressional Observer: January 2006
September 28, 2006, 4:25 AM
January 2006

•Congress took a legislative break from November 18 to December 12 but, before leaving, both houses passed H.R.3058, the FY2006 Transportation, Treasury and Housing appropriations bill that provides funding for those agencies through September.

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