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206 Door Issue
The Cessna 206 is a workhorse bush plane but it has a design issue with its rear cargo doors that the Transportation Safety Board has flagged in its investigation of a fatal crash last year […]
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Aussie Hornet Cost Difference Explained
An apparent disconnect between the accountants at the Department of National Defence and the Parliamentary Budget Office has resulted in a disparity in the cost estimates for DND’s recent purchase of used F-18 Hornets from […]
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Close Call With Pearson Snowplows
The Transportation Safety Board is investigating a runway incursion at Pearson International Airport that led to an aborted takeoff by a regional jet in late January. The Sky Regional Airways E170 was on its takeoff […]
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206 Door Design Flagged By Fatalities
The Transportation Safety Board has issued a safety advisory on a long established design issue with Cessna 206 aircraft that can make emergency escapes difficult. The TSB issued the advisory as part of its investigation […]
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Flair Rebrands
Flair Airlines unveiled a new brand strategy last week and also announced cancellation of service on some U.S. routes. It’s buying five Boeing 737-800NG aircraft and painting them like this.
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Flair Rebrands, Drops Some Routes
Flair Airlines has dropped service to Palm Springs, Tampa and Miami because of low demand and trouble with a third-party airline it contracted to handle some of the flights. The fledgling ultra low cost carrier […]
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Canada Kicks Tires On ‘Scrap’ Drone
Canada has offered to buy a mothballed high altitude surveillance drone from Germany as it gets ready to deploy drones for long range patrol duties, particularly in the North. Although the drone program has been […]
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Hard Landing For Cyclone
One of Canada’s brand new Cyclone maritime helicopters will be checked for damage in Guam after a hard landing on a ship in the Pacific. The helicopter was landing on a supply ship taking part […]
TSB Incidents
Porter Airlines – DHC-8-400 – Erratic Propeller Issue
2019-02-07 C-GLQQ, a Bombardier DHC-8-400 aircraft operated by Porter Airlines, was conducting flight POE122 from Newark/Liberty Intl (KEWR), NJ to Toronto/Billy Bishop Toronto City (CYTZ), ON with 4 crew members and 27 passengers on board. […]
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Thomas Cook Airlines – Airbus 330-200 – Burnt Electrical Odour
2019-02-06 G-TCCF, an Airbus 330-200 aircraft operated by Thomas Cook Airlines, was conducting Condor Airlines flight CFG116 from Frankfurt/Rhein-Main (EDDF), Germany to Cancún Intl (MMUN), Mexico. During cruise flight, liquid was inadvertently spilled onto the […]
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Wetaskiwin Air Services – Cessna 172M – Snow Bank Collision
2019-02-06 C-GNKG, a Cessna 172M aircraft operated by Wetaskiwin Air Services, was conducting a local VFR training flight out of Wetaskiwin Regional (CEX3), AB with 2 persons on board. During the flight, the instructor decided […]
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March 2019
Overview Silent Glory – Soaring – The Ultimate Pilot Challenge A Pain in the Back – Sciatica can disable Pilots Straight Talk – Use the Right Words Argus Rescue – Noisy Airplane, Life Saved and […]
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A test Post with wordpress 5.03
This is the first post that uses the new wordpress 5.03. It should be identical to other versions until we turn on the new editor which is a block editor. I would like to turn […]
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Mikey Back On Video
For those who miss Ice Pilots NWT, Buffalo Airways GM Mikey McBryan has launched his own YouTube channel called Plane Savers that loosely chronicles his company’s quest to ready a former Transport Canada DC-3 for […]
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RCMP Get New H145
Canada’s first Airbus H145 twin-engine helicopter was delivered to the RCMP earlier this month in Langley, B.C. and it’s been named to honour an RCMP pilot who died in a 2012 training flight. The helicopter […]