The line between public use and civil aviation operations is
currently so blurred, especially for contract operators, that the
time has come to bring all the stakeholders together as a working
group to provide clarity on the issue. That was the message HAI
President Matt Zuccaro brought to the NTSB at its forum on public
use aviation safety.
Study Predicts Nearly 11,000 Jets Will Be Built By 2020
In a new study "The Market for Business Jet Aircraft,"
Connecticut-based market research firm Forecast International
predicts that 10,907 business jets will be produced between 2011
and 2020. The value of this production is estimated at $230.3
billion in constant 2011 U.S. dollars. The study projects that
business jet production will resume growing in 2012, after
declining each of the previous three years.
Said Pilot Intentionally Flew Between Electrical Towers Rather
Than Over Them
A court in Victorville, CA has awarded a $10 million settlement
to the widow of John Goble, who was fatally injured in an accident
involving a vintage Piasecki PV-18 helicopter in November of
2009.
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