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By Mike Hodges, Air Safety Investigator, and Clint Crookshanks, Aerospace Engineer (Structures) When an aircraft crashes, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) air safety investigators and aerospace engineers must determine if the event can be classified as an accident or an incident, as defined by Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations...

An oft-quoted maxim is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Although this has a literal meaning – picture those huge links on the anchor chain of a large ocean-going ship – the figurative meaning usually applies to the people, technology, or administrative steps in a...

Mr Phil Hurst, CEO of the Aerial Application Association of Australia Ltd since July 1999, has announced his retirement from the position effective January 2022. Mr Stephen Holding, President of the Association, said that Mr Hurst had served the members of the Association and stakeholders with distinction over the last...

A Coroner has recommended “visual aids” on remote power lines as a way to help stop a repeat of a fatal air crash that killed two Gisborne men in 2016. Topdressing pilot George Peter Anderson, 36, and passenger and trainee loader Robert Solouota, 49, died in a light aircraft accident...

An ag pilot has walked away unscathed after an ibis smashed through the windscreen of his spray plane that was travelling at close to 300 kilometres per hour. The video has been viewed more than 160,000 times on social media, with people stunned that he was uninjured and was able...

The forest sustains life. Our nation has been embellished with tropical forests. The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) under the guidance of Air Force Commander Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana together with the Forest Conservation Department and the Agriculture Faculty of the Peradeniya University initiated the fifth wave of aerial sowing....

Botucatu - SP, October 1st, 2021 – Embraer's agricultural aviation division ended September with a total of 50 Ipanema EMB-203 aircraft sold throughout the year to date. This is double the total sold in 2020. The increase in orders reflects the strong performance of Brazil’s agribusiness sector and confidence among...

“I’ve seen better landings where everyone’s been killed.” That was an aside from one of my earliest instructors, and it happened on a day that wasn’t my finest as a student pilot. If there was something that could be done wrong, I was doing it. Airspeed. Power. Altitude. Heading. Slipping...

São Paulo – Brazil has regulated the use of drones in the agribusiness. The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) published on Friday (24) in the Federal Gazette an ordinance establishing rules for operating remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs), or drones, in the application of pesticides and the like, adjuvants,...

An overwhelming sense of passion for agricultural aviation exudes from Juliana Torchetti every time she speaks. Her career in aviation began in 2007. She was a flight instructor in Brazil and then began flying a Boeing 737 and a Boeing 727 for approximately four years. Witnessing aerial firefighting for the...