Bald Mountain Air Service is an air carrier service based out of Homer, Alaska. Until November 2012, Brian Bell was a medevac pilot working for Bald Mountain. Bell was fired, however, two days after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection was conducted. That inspection was prompted after Bell filed reports with both OSHA […]
Families File First Lawsuit in Cuban Plane Crash
On March 28, 2017, a plane flying from Havana, Cuba, to Holguín, a city in eastern Cuba, crashed, and 112 people, including the entire crew, perished. There was one single survivor: a 19-year-old named Mailén Díaz Almaguer. Global Air, a Mexican company, had leased the Boeing 737-200 to Cubana de Aviación, the Cuban airline operating […]
Grieving Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against American Airlines
Brittany Oswell was only 25 years old when, on April 15th, 2016, she suffered an embolism and cardiac arrest aboard an American Airlines flight from Hawaii to South Carolina. According to a lawsuit – filed by Brittany’s husband, Cory Oswell, and her parents, Christopher and Tina Starks – Brittany started slurring her speech before she […]
Engine Maker Planned to Inspect Defective Southwest Plane
Last week, a Southwest Airlines plane (Flight 1380) experienced major malfunctions, leading to a blown engine and a dislodged fan blade. The blade shattered a window, causing a woman to be partially sucked out and perish. The tragic event has led to a whole series of oversight questions, namely the following: why did this happen […]
Airline Lobby Calls for Increased Regulations on Hobbyist Drones
On February 1st, a video was posted on the sUASNews website, showing a hobbyist drone flying in close proximity to a major airliner over Las Vegas. This was cause for concern for major trade organizations, such as the Air Line Pilots Association, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association and Airlines for America, all of which […]
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