VFR Accident Involving Cessna-172 and Sonex Xenos Under Investigation
A mid-air collision has claimed three lives near Vance Brand Airport (LMO) in Longmont, Colorado—a home-rule municipality approximately 25-nautical-miles north of Denver. The accident occurred just before 09:00 MDT on the morning of Saturday, 17 September 2022, and involved a Cessna 172 Skyhawk and a Sonex Xenos—a light, aluminum, low-wing, kit-aircraft marketed by Oshkosh-based Sonex Aircraft. The National Transportation Safety Board, in a preliminary statement, has confirmed the collision occurred in VFR conditions.
In an operation predicted upon daring, chutzpah, stealth, low-altitude non-radar flight, and no small amount of luck, a team from Wizz Air, the Hungarian ultra-low-cost air-carrier, crept into Ukraine and stole-back an Airbus A320 wrongfully taken from the airline at the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The aircraft was clandestinely flown from the war-torn nation to a safe landing in the southern Polish city of Katowice.
Long-Delayed Aircraft Maintenance School to Open in 2024
After years of budgetary, logistical, and legal challenges, Chattahoochee Technical College, on Friday, 09 September 2022, held a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new aviation maintenance academy in Paulding County. The academy, which is slated to begin classes in 2024, will train aircraft maintenance and service technicians.
Aero Linx: The Transportation Safety Board of Canada
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is an independent agency that advances transportation safety by investigating occurrences in the air, marine, pipeline and rail modes of transportation. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is an independent agency created by an Act of Parliament (the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act) on 29 March 1990 with the mandate to advance safety in air, marine, pipeline, and rail transportation in Canada.
Mach Technique [ICAO]
Describes a control technique used by air traffic control whereby turbojet aircraft operating successively along suitable routes are cleared to maintain appropriate MACH numbers for a relevant portion of the en route phase of flight. The principle objective is to achieve improved utilization of the airspace and to ensure that separation between successive aircraft does not decrease below the established minima.
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