Sex Flights Gets Grounded By The Civil Aviation Authority

United Kingdom's aviation regulator body the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has refused to recertify Mile High Flights, an air charter company located in Gloucestershire, a county in South West England for allowing its passengers to have sex while in-flight. The Mile High Club (or MHC) is a slang term applied collectively to individuals who have sex (avstop.com) More...

TSA Cooked The Books For Years On Costs, Federal Vs Private Screening

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a letter to Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-FL) that confirms the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has used faulty data and withheld information when evaluating and comparing the costs of the all-federal screening model and an (avstop.com) More...

FAA Releases Audio Of Pilot Suffering Hypoxia At 17,000 Feet

The FAA has released an audio recording of the pilot who suffered hypoxia at 17,000 feet. On May 17th a 70 year old pilot and his wife departed San Bernardino, California for a landing in Colorado Springs, Colorado (COS) in a Cirrus SR22 aircraft (N160A). Enroute the pilot was handed off to Denver Center on frequency 118.57. The controller informed the pilot that there would (avstop.com) More...

ACLU Received Over 900 Complaints - “Enhanced” TSA Security Measures

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has received over 900 complaints in the month of November from travelers who have been subjected to the Transportation Security Authority’s (TSA) new “enhanced” screening procedures. The procedures include sending travelers through backscatter X-ray machines that produce naked (avstop.com) More...

MiG-29 Fighter Soars Over The Pacific Northwest

A former Ukranian MiG-29 fighter has become the second privately owned MiG-29 to fly, taking to the air over Washington six years after it left Eastern Europe. Capable of speeds of Mach 2.2 and altitudes of nearly 60,000ft, the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-29 “Fulcrum” is a far cry from the 1927-57 vintage airplanes that Historic Flight Foundation specializes in restoring. However, the opportunity to work on something (avstop.com) More...

NTSB Orders Pinnacle Airlines Turn Over Emails On Pilots In The Colgan Air Crash

In 2009, a Colgan Air Bombardier operating as Continental Connection crashed on an instrument approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Buffalo, New York all 47 people onboard were killed. The NTSB investigated the crash and had issued its report. The investigation was a lengthy process which included testimony (avstop.com) More...

Pilot Pleads Guilty To Flying Illegal Flights And Falsifying Safety Records

A former pilot, Francis Vieira, 60 of now-defunct Platinum Jet Management pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud charter customers and brokers using interstate wires and to impede and obstruct the Federal Aviation Administration (avstop.com) More...

AirTran Stockholders Approve Southwest Merger

AirTran Holdings, Inc. the parent company of AirTran Airways, announced on Wednesday that its stockholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines Co. with and into AirTran at a special meeting held in Orlando. More than 98.6 percent of the votes cast and 77.5 percent of shares outstanding were (avstop.com) More...

Jack Pelton Steps Down As CEO From Cessna Aircraft

Textron Inc. announced on Monday that Jack J. Pelton, chairman, president and CEO of its Cessna Aircraft unit, has retired from the company, and that a search for his successor is underway. Textron Chairman and CEO Scott C. Donnelly will run the business until a successor is named. The Cessna Aircraft Company is an airplane manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Their main products are (avstop.com) More...

Aircraft Leasing Company Indicted In $50 Million Financing Scheme

The owner of an aircraft leasing company, who was indicted earlier this year on commercial bribery charges, his corporation, and five new individual defendants are facing an expanded federal indictment alleging that they engaged in a fraudulent financing scheme that raised more than $50 million. (avstop.com) More...