NATO is studying options for improving low-level airspace co-ordination in operational areas in response to an increasing number of proximity incidents involving manned aircraft and unmanned air vehicles.
Clear vision: Access 5 takes one step at a time The Access 5 group leaves no doubt about its vision: it wants routine operations of unmanned aerial vehicles within the US national airspace system this decade.
Vertical Aerospace’s initial VX4 prototype was written off after the failure of a propeller blade due to a manufacturing fault which led to a loss of thrust from two of the aircraft’s remaining electric motors, ultimately causing it to impact the ground with a high rate of descent, UK investigators have determined.
Colombian authorities are probing a gear-collapse incident involving an ATR 42-500 turboprop preparing for departure from San Andres. The ATR, operated by regional carrier Satena, suffered a collapse of its nose-gear just before taking from Gustavo Rojas Pinilla airport on the Caribbean island territory, which lies east of Nicaragua. Colombian ...
Venezuelan authorities have disclosed that smoke emitted from the fuselage of a Laser Airlines Boeing MD-82 prompted an evacuation at the gate in Caracas. The twinjet had been preparing for departure to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, on 28 April. Venezuela’s national civil aeronautics institute INAC states that the ...