Tag Archive: Aviation Safety

Cessna Unveils Inspection Program – AVIATION WEEK

Cessna is launching one of the largest aging aircraft programs to be undertaken for a fleet of single-piston airplanes. The Wichita plane maker has developed a supplemental inspection program designed to stem concerns of possible corrosion and fatigue stress on its fleet of nearly 145,000 100- and 200-series single-engine aircraft produced between 1946 and 1986. …

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Photo: A blast from the past – YIP Executive Tours L-188 at CLE in 1982 – OPShots.net

Pictured in front of the historic pair of hangars that are now part of the Atlantic Aviation complex in August 1982, this is a very rare photo of this ill-fated Electra in these titles.  This Electra would be destroyed in a fiery crash outside Reno, Nevada five years later while flying for Galaxy Airlines.   – …

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Ernest Angley’s plane lands ‘hard’ at Akron-Canton Airport – Akron Beacon Journal

A jet belonging to Ernest Angley Ministries “landed hard” at the Akron-Canton Airport on Tuesday afternoon. Kristie Van Auken, spokeswoman for the airport, said the plane and tire debris were quickly removed from the runway. Commercial flights were not interrupted by the incident, which happened around noon. Five people were on board and no one …

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Fake bomb threat forces emergency landing in Oakland – The Oakland Tribune

A phony bomb threat against a flight arriving from Seattle on Monday morning forced an emergency landing and a search of everyone on board, officials said. Alaska Airlines Flight 342, which included six crew members and 126 passengers, was in the air about 6:45 a.m. when an employee at San Francisco International Airport found a …

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