Two Thought Dead In Montana Mishap Walk Out Of The Woods
When Flathead County (MT) Sheriff Jim Dupont saw the crash
scene, he figured no one could have gotten out alive. A Cessna 206
had gone down in rough weather not far from the town of Kalispell.
On board were the pilot and four Forest Service workers. Dupont
called a news conference and said all five aboard had been
killed.
Single Engine Aircraft Down Near Glacier National Park
Recovery teams hoped Wednesday to retrieve the bodies of five
people -- four of them employees of the US Forest Service -- from
the site where their single engine aircraft went down in the
Glacier National Park two days earlier.
Something new Wednesday at the World Airline Entertainment
Association (WAEA) conference and exhibition in Seattle: Rockwell
Collins introduced its new line of moving map and in-flight
information products for commercial aircraft. The new Airshow 4200
is a distributed video-based product, and Airshow 4200i is an
in-seat interactive product. Both products integrate with the
leading IFE systems to provide content that is highly customizable
and tailored to meet the needs of each airline customer.
Feted For Contributions to the Advancement of General
Aviation
Eclipse Aviation's president and CEO, Vern Raburn, has received
the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Piper
General Aviation Award for 2004. The award was presented to Raburn
during at an AIAA conference in Chicago on Tuesday.
AD NUMBER: 2004-19-09
MANUFACTURER: Robinson Helicopter
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2004-19-09
SUMMARY: This amendment supersedes an existing
emergency airworthiness directive (AD) for the Robinson Helicopter
Company (Robinson) Model R22, R22 Alpha, R22 Beta, and R22 Mariner
helicopters, that currently requires track-and-balancing certain
main rotor blades (blades),replacing blades, and determining the
age of each blade and revising the component history card or
equivalent maintenance record.
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