Fly with Santa -- in a skydiving simulator

With the assistance of five 200-horsepower fans sucking him skyward, the jolly old lady floats as simply as Peter Pan.
With the steel sheet dark underneath his furry red cap, Santa is spending his pre-Christmas days teaching others how to boyant at the airport's "wind tunnel" -- the skydiving simulating machine. At the tip of the 96-foot-tall straight wind chamber, hulk fans siphon air out to create the vacuum that allows people to float.
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Plane scrapes wing, veers off course at airport

Federal air-safety investigators have been perplexing to establish what caused an American Airlines jet to scratch a wingtip as well as curve off a runway while landing this week end during Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. According to an article published in a Wall Street Journal, a incident happened Sunday around 10:45 p.m. due to bad visibility caused by drizzle as well as fog. There were 110 passengers as well as organisation aboard Flight 1402. Officials have been perplexing to establish why it took a airline four hours to notify sovereign officials about a mishap.

Student pilot was training for emergency

Photo by Rob Varela
A coroner prepares to ride one of a victims of a craft pile-up Thursday in Ojai after two people died when their Cessna craft crashed upon a roadway subsequent to a residence during a Krotona Institute in Ojai.
A student pilot from India was practicing puncture maneuvers with an experienced physical education instructor during a Thursday training moody prior to their craft crashed in Ojai, murdering them both, a moody school's co-owner conspicuous Friday. Amit Ahire, 19, as well as Richard Anthony Prado, 51, were conspicuous passed during a stage of a pile-up about 2:30 p.m. Thursday near Krotona Road upon a campus of a Krotona Institute of Theosophy, conspicuous Armando Chavez, a county comparison emissary medical examiner. Both group died of blunt-force injuries, autopsies determined.
It will likely be months prior to authorities strictly establish what caused a crash, though some details emerged Friday from investigators as well as friends.

Ahire had come to a United States from a tiny village in India to consequence his pilot's wings during Aviation Pacific Inc., a moody school during a Camarillo Airport. He had been vital in Oxnard only since Nov. 12, Chavez said. With about 15 hours of air experience available during his two weeks of training, Ahire was upon his fifth moody when he was killed, conspicuous Andrea Bortolon, co-owner of Aviation Pacific.

Hours prior to he died, Ahire was since his first set of headphones, a badge of honor among students which signals they have been upon their way to becoming pilots, Bortolon said. The doctrine of a day was practicing puncture maneuvers, including puncture landings as well as how to fly during low altitude, Bortolon said. Typically, which doctrine includes putting a craft in idle as well as cutting a power, among other moves.

Crash landing next to I-15 Lehi, Utah; Plane avoids traffic, but maneuver injures pilot

LEHI, Utah A small craft crashed subsequent to I-15 Wednesday, critically injuring a pilot.
Mark Thorn, 52, of Sandy, was alone in a 1960 Beechcraft Bonanza, said Patrick Loturco, who co-owns a craft with Thorn.
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Rescue personnel demeanour over a craft which crashed only off I-15 in Lehi between a southbound lanes as well as a Alpine/Highland off ramp Wednesday. (Stuart Johnson, Deseret News)
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LEHI A tiny craft crashed next to Interstate 15 Wednesday, critically injuring a pilot.
Mark Thorn, 52, of St. George, was alone in a 1960 Beechcraft Bonanza, pronounced Patrick Loturco, who co-owns a craft with Thorn.
"He's a genuine estate agent," Loturco told a Deseret News. "He called me this sunrise as well as told me he was starting up there for business. He went as well as got checked out in a plane, so he's fully approved to fly it."
Thorn avoided attack any vehicles as well as maneuvered a craft by a slight frame of land nearby a Alpine turnpike offramp.
The pile-up occurred before long after 2 p.m., only west of a southbound turnpike lanes nearby Thanksgiving Point.
The craft left St. George about 12:30 p.m. as well as was headed to somewhere in Salt Lake County, pronounced Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Nigbur.
Mike Frandsen was pushing his car north on I-15 when he saw a craft coming from a south.
"I couldn't see any fume or fire, though he was obviously perplexing to land. He came down fast," Frandsen said. "It looked like he tried to level it out, though he only leaned to a west."
Frandsen then mislaid sight of a craft since it went down a high embankment.
A LifeFlight helicopter was sent to a scene as well as transported Thorn to Intermountain Medical Center in critical condition, Nigbur said.
The craft strike an dike when it crashed, then spun around though remained upright. Its nose, now facing south, was crumpled, a windshield was crushed as well as a left wing damaged. Scattered fragments of a fuselage could be seen along a embankment.
"Right now, it looks like he did an outstanding job" by alighting on a slight frame instead of in traffic, Nigbur said.
UHP officials are worried about a trade backup which may continue by a afternoon pour out hour.
"We ask a open not to delayed down as well as demeanour since which will only means a huge chain reaction," Nigbur said.
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Minister threatens to clip wings of accident-hit Airlink

TRANSPORT Minister Sbu Ndebele yesterday threatened to ground made at home airline SA Airlink after a third collision involving a airline upon Monday.

After a lengthy assembly with Colin Jordaan, CEO as well as commissioner of a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), as well as alternative ride officials yesterday, a apportion instructed a CAA to provide him with a comprehensive inform upon SA Airlink.

This will include sum of an audit under approach at a airline; prior audit reports; rough reports upon all accidents as well as incidents involving it in a past 6 months; as well as a synopsis of a cockpit voice recorder for a collision which occurred in Durban.

In a ultimate situation a 37-seat Embraer 135 jet overshot a runway in wet conditions in George.

Last month, an Airlink aircraft skidded off a runway in Port Elizabeth, whilst in September a Jetstream 41 crashed before long after taking flight from Durban International Airport. In a fourth incident, a flight en track to Nelspruit had to lapse to Johannesburg after technical problems with a aircrafts hydraulic system.

Airlink management yesterday allocated an eccentric consultant to examination a reserve processes as well as procedures, whilst a CAA is additionally stepping up audits upon this aspect of a airlines operations.

While Airlink has passed multiform stringent reserve audits by a CAA as well as a International Air Transport Associations Operational Safety Audit, it appears which there might be gaps in a reserve as well as operating procedures.

An primary inform upon a Durban collision showed it was likely a pilots, after losing energy from a right-hand engine, inexplicably tighten off a remaining engine, preventing them from drifting safely behind to a airport as a aircraft is approved to do.

One probable reason is which a pilots deviated from a set puncture procedures.

However, with a CAA still questioning a alternative dual accidents, it is unclear whether commander blunder was a means of a many new incidents.

Safety as well as a wellbeing of a passengers, crew as well as aircraft is a tip priority as well as it is required which you regularly work professionally as well as safely, Airlink CEO as well as MD Rodger Foster pronounced yesterday. While you have been assured which Airlink complies with South African as well as international regulations as well as best practice, if there have been gaps, afterwards you wish to know where they have been as well as you will implement whatever measures have been required to tighten them.

A recently retired comparison SAA consultant upon airline reserve will do a eccentric review.

Foster pronounced a examination would examine numerous aspects of Airlinks running, including care structure, cockpit resource management techniques, correspondence with regulations as well as customary operating procedures as well as training.

Airlink spokesperson Karin Murray reliable which Foster had been in touch with Ndebele regarding a new accidents at a airline.

The CAA pronounced yesterday which Jordaan was endangered about a new accidents as well as incidents involving Airlink.

After a Durban accident, a CAA instituted an audit of a maintenance, operating procedures as well as commander training for Airlink over as well as on top of a normal reserve slip programme conducted upon all airlines operating in as well as into SA.
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Video: 6S8 Laurel Municipal Airport - Man Found in Coal Bin

By Kyle Midura
LAUREL - A male was taken to a sanatorium Monday morning after he was found in a 30-foot tall spark garbage garbage garbage garbage bin during a Laurel Airport.
The former owners of Big Sky Aviation detected a stream manager, Jarod Doyle, upheld out in a massive garbage garbage garbage garbage bin during around 9:30 a.m. Monday morning. The male who found him, Frank Felke, arrived during a hangar as well as detected a heater was not working. He went to check a spark garbage garbage garbage garbage bin as well as detected Doyle unconscious.
Felke owned as well as operated Big Sky Aviation for more than thirty years, as well as pronounced it could have been him.
"Accidents as well as those sorts of things worry you," pronounced Felke, "I know I've done it, managed to survive, we guess, but maybe a conditions weren't a same."
Several agencies worked to giveaway Doyle from a bin. He may have been in a garbage garbage garbage garbage bin up to an hour. He was revived upon a stage as well as taken to Billings Clinic. There's no word upon his condition.
By Kyle Midura
Jared Doyle of Billings is in serious condition during Billings Clinic after he was detected unconscious inside a spark hay shed outside of Big Sky Aircraft in Laurel Monday morning.
Doyle operates Big Sky Aircraft, a repair emporium during a Laurel Airport, that uses spark for heat. Frank Felke, a friend of Doyles, stopped by a commercial operation around 9 a.m. as well as couldnt locate him inside.
A barking dog near a spark garbage garbage garbage garbage bin alerted Felke, who found Doyle unconscious in a spark bin, that is about thirty feet deep.
The dog substantially saved his life, pronounced Derek Yeager, arch of Laurel Fire Department.
Yeager pronounced firefighters received a call about Doyle during 9:12 a.m., as well as he was carried from a hay shed during 10:28 a.m.
Carbon dioxide levels in a hay shed were very high, so puncture responders wearing oxygen masks entered a hay shed as well as administered oxygen to Doyle.
Doyle was starting to come around prior to an ambulance took him to a hospital, Felke said.
Rescuing Doyle was formidable because a opening during a top of a hay shed is only about 3 feet wide, Yeager said.
Crews used ropes, pulleys, harnesses as well as a basket to lift Doyle out of a bin.
Fifteen people were involved in a rescue effort, including Laurel firefighters as well as an puncture response team from a Cenex refinery.