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February 09, 2009

Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Monday 02.09.09

A Year Of Lessons, With CFI Bob Miller

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 02.09.09 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 02.09.09 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- A Year Of Lessons: 02.09.09 (ANN Special Report, with CFI Bob Miller of "Over The Airwaves".)

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Cessna Mechanic Caught Stealing Parts, Selling Them On eBay

Suspiciously Low Price Led Buyer To Check Serial Numbers

A mechanic employed by the Cessna Aircraft Company has been caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar, stealing aircraft parts and selling them on eBay.

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Vermont Pilot Charged After Faking Crash

Claimed He Was Blinded By Runway Lights And Flipped In A Snowbank

A pilot pulling a prank of sorts was charged last week as a result of his deceitful comments on the radio, faking an accident and disrupting air traffic at Plattsburgh International Airport (PBG).

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Records Show Catalina Accident Pilot Had PPL Only

No Commercial License Noted For Tour Operator

An overdue flight from Catalina back to John Wayne Airport (SNA) last Thursday afternoon set a search and rescue effort into motion, eventually locating the wrecked plane and three victims on a hilltop southwest of Catalina's Airport In The Sky (AVX).

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Cessna Latest To Announce Cuts To Work Week

Some Production Workers To Be Reduced To Three Or Four Days Per Week

On the heels of last week's announcement of job cuts now affecting a total of 4,600 workers, the Cessna Aircraft Company unveiled an additional strategy on Friday to shorten the work week for some production workers.

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Barnstorming: We Have A BizPlane and We're Not Afraid To Use It

'09 Promises To Be An Amazing, If Complex, Year

 …And so 2009 is slightly over a month old and I have but one primary thought at a little past four in the morning, the end of another long day… where the hell did it go? FMI: Got a newsworthy destination in mind for ANN's new flagship?? Tell us all about it!  

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TBO-NAFI: 'We Are Moving Ahead' With New Organization

To Be Called SAFE - The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators

The latest developments in the ongoing struggle between the National Association of Flight Instructors and Take Back Our-NAFI were covered in a Daily News statement posted on TBO-NAFI's website Saturday, as details of the beginnings of The Society of Aviation and Flight Educators were discussed by SAFE Interim Working Group spokesman Doug Stewart.

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An Aussie Sully? Chieftain Ditches Off Darwin Coast

Pilot And Five Passengers Soggy But Okay

Inviting some to make comparisons to "Sully" Sullenberger's successful water landing of a US Airways A320 in New York's Hudson River, an Australian pilot made a safe ditching of the company Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain in the Timor Sea off the coast of Darwin, in the Northern Territories.

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NTSB Prelim: Downed Cirrus' CAPS Pin Not Removed Before Flight

Pilot Said No Icing Seen Shortly Before Fatal Accident

The National Transportation Safety Board released its Preliminary report on the flight and demise of a couple and family friend traveling from Sheboygan to New Richmond last month.

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CA Helo Pilot Under FAA Investigation For Inflight Tryst

Tape Shows Man At Controls... With Porn Star

A video of airborne sexual escapades made in 2007, but only recently posted on a Hollywood gossip website, has gotten the attention of the Federal Aviation Administration, prompting an investigation.

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