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Published: 18 July 2022

  by Jim Timm   The following are the reports of aviation accidents and incidents that occurred in Arizona from May through late June. Once again, in this reporting period, aviation safety was still not really the greatest. While there were only six reported accidents, about half as many as last time, at the very end of the reporting period there was again a

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Published: 18 July 2022

   by Jim Timm   These pilot deviations need to be examined to determine if a common threat exists that should be addressed to help reduce the number of deviations that occur and enhance aviation safety. In the time period from May 13 through June 9 there were eighteen pilot deviations recorded by the FAA SDL FSDO. These deviations were committed by all

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Published: 14 July 2022

  By Fred Gibbs   We are now 6 months into 2022 with five fatal accidents here in Arizona since the beginning of the year, with seven fatalities. There was also one fatal accident over in California involving an Arizona-based pilot and aircraft. It appears that the current numbers are tending to mirror the average rate over the past many years I have been tracking

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Published: 18 June 2022

   by Jim Timm   These pilot deviations need to be examined to determine if a common occurrence exists that should be addressed to help reduce the number of deviations that occur and enhance aviation safety. In the period from April 15 through May 12 there were nineteen pilot deviations recorded by the FAA SDL FSDO. These deviations were committed by

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Published: 18 June 2022

  by Jim Timm   The following are the reports of aviation accidents and incidents that have occurred in Arizona from April through late May. We hope to use the following detailed accident information to develop safety programs, briefings, and posters/flyers that would help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and take the action necessary to prevent

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Published: 14 June 2022

  By Fred Gibbs   We are now 5 months into 2022 with only two fatal accidents here in Arizona since the beginning of the year, and these having only two fatalities. I certainly hope we can keep that safety record going. The first accident was the Van’s RV-7A that crashed under unknown circumstances near the Triangle Airpark (AZ50), White Hills, Mohave County

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Published: 18 May 2022

  by Jim Timm   The following are the reports of aviation accidents and incidents that have occurred in Arizona from March through late April. We hope to use the following detailed accident information to develop safety programs, briefings, and posters/flyers that would help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others and take the action necessary to

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Published: 18 May 2022

   by Jim Timm   These pilot deviations need to be examined to determine if a common threat exists that should be addressed to help reduce the number of deviations that occur, and enhance aviation safety. In the time period from March 12 through April 14 there were twenty-eight pilot deviations recorded by the FAA SDL FSDO. These deviations were committed by

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Published: 14 May 2022

  By Fred Gibbs   Well, again this month, according to the latest NTSB report I was able to pull down, there has been only one fatal accident here in Arizona since the beginning of the year. That was the Van’s RV-7A that crashed under unknown circumstances near the Triangle Airpark (AZ50), White Hills, Mohave County, Arizona. The pilot, the sole occupant, was

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Published: 18 April 2022

  by Jim Timm   The following are the reports of aviation accidents and incidents that occurred in Arizona from mid-February through late March. We use the following detailed accident information to develop safety programs, briefings, and posters/flyers that would help pilots learn from the mistakes being made by others, and take the action necessary to prevent