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Misfueling Led To Crash

The Transportation Safety Board has confirmed earlier speculation that a piston-powered Piper Navajo had been fueled with Jet A before an off-airport landing near Thompson, Manitoba a year ago. The Keystone Air Service Navajo suffered […]

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TC Inspectors Warn About SMS

The chair of the Canadian Federal Pilots Association is calling on the federal government to beef up direct oversight of commercial aviation operations. In an op-ed article in the Ottawa Citizen, Greg McConnell, whose union […]

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Ice Damages Q400 Window

Jazz Aviation says ice was the likely culprit in damaging a window on one of its Bombardier Q400s last week. Passengers aboard the flight from Charlottetown to Montreal were rattled by a loud noise during […]

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Crash Victim Had No Training

The mentally ill young man who died in a plane crash in Peterborough last week had never taken any flight training and that’s raising multiple questions about airport security and the response by authorities. Mohammad […]

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Super Cyclone Kit Launched

Aviatech Products, of Alma, Quebec,  in partnership with the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi, has announced a technically improved version of the Super Cyclone kit aircraft it’s been building for several years. The new kit, […]

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CSeries Performing Well

Swiss International Airlines says its new CSeries aircraft are performing better than some other aircraft in their entry to service. The first CSeries revenue flight was on July 15 and although there have been some […]

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More Air Ambulance Suspensions

Some isolated B.C. communities say they’re stuck in the middle of a bureaucratic tussle between Transport Canada and Helijet Airways that is threatening the health of their residents. Residents of Texada Island, west of Powell […]