Also: U.K. To Double F-35 Fleet, SpaceX Changes Plans, NGC's 10th Cargo Launch, FlightSafety MissionFit

The Canadian Transportation Safety Board has issued a letter to Transport Canada concerning the in-flight breakup of a Quad City Challenger II Advance Ultralight aircraft that resulted in the fatal injury of the pilot in July.

The TSB determined that the bracket securing the right front lift strut to the fuselage failed while in flight as the result of metal fatigue. The failure caused the right wing to separate from the aircraft. According to the report, the bracket had accumulated 402.2 hours when the failure occurred. The fatigue crack began at the bolt hole, and a "significant number" of secondary and parallel cracks were found underneath the surface of the bracket. NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet was scrutinized and debated by the mission team and the planetary science community. The rover mission is scheduled to launch in July 2020 as NASA’s next step in exploration of the Red Planet. It will not only seek signs of ancient habitable conditions – and past microbial life -- but the rover also will collect rock and soil samples and store them in a cache on the planet's surface. NASA and the European Space Agency are studying future mission concepts to retrieve the samples and return them to Earth, so this landing site sets the stage for the next decade of Mars exploration. The first ACJ320neo successfully completed a two hour and 40 minute first flight from Hamburg on November 16th, getting its short test-program off to a good start. The first ACJ320neo made a successful first flight from Hamburg on 16th November 2018. Derived from the popular A320neo airliner family, some 500 of which are in airline service, the corporate jet version includes features such as extra fuel-tanks in the cargo-hold that will deliver even more intercontinental range, plus greater cabin-pressure for better passenger comfort. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!

Airborne 11.21.18 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Monday, November 21st 2018... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Laura Hutson, Brianne Cross, and Christopher Odom, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers:

• TSB Issues Safety Warning To Transport Canada About Challenger II Ultralight
• NASA Announces Landing Site For Mars 2020 Rover
• ACJ320neo Takes To The Skies For The First Time
• U.K. To Double F-35 Fleet With 17-Jet Order, Defense Secretary Announces
• SpaceX Drops Plans For Reusable Falcon 9 Second Stage
• NGC Successfully Launches 10th Cargo Delivery Mission To ISS For NASA
• FlightSafety International Launches MissionFit

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