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October 13, 2008

Ferguson Resigns From Mooney Aircraft Company

Gowen Was Named New CEO Last Month

Dennis E. Ferguson, who headed the Mooney Airplane Company as Chief Executive Officer from September 2006 until last month, has resigned from the aircraft manufacturing company to pursue other interests.

Settlement With Crashed Plane’s Owner Reached

Fifth Judicial Prosecuting Attorney David Gibbons has agreed to drop all charges against airport commissioner Phillip B. Cowger stemming from an October 2007 airplane crash near Clarksville, AR.

Know Your Glass, With CFII Bob Miller

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 10.13.08 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 10.13.08 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Know Your Glass: 10.13.08 (ANN Special Report, with CFII Bob Miller of "Over The Airwaves".)

This Episode Features A Presentation By John Dixon, Director of Pilot Recruitment for American Eagle (Part 5 Of A Series)

We've been hearing about it for years... a pilot shortage... a critical one, at that. For many in the aviation community, it sounded like good news... at least if you were on the bottom rungs of the pilot hiring ladder and working desperately to climb your way up. However; after engaging in discussions thorough the industry over the last year and in attending a particularly pointed (and very well-organized) presentation at the FAA Forecast Conference some months ago, ANN and Aero-TV are left with the troubling impression that aviation has a BIG problem on its hands.

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Landing Tomahawk Hits Truck On Fresno Street

Approach To Sierra Sky Park Runway Just A Bit Too Low

A plane on final approach to Fresno's Sierra Sky Park Saturday apparently got a little bit too low over a street bordering the airport when it clipped the roof of a passing furniture truck.