20-minute holding pattern? JetBlue flight arrives late due to disabled aircraft in Aguadilla

A JetBlue flight from New York to Puerto Rico was forced into a 20-minute holding pattern above the Bahia de Anguadilla due ...
Travel Weekly

As drones proliferate, U.S. aviation in holding pattern

On the evening of Jan. 22, reports by airline pilots of a drone in their approach path led the FAA to briefly stop arrivals into Newark Liberty Airport. The halt was the first such action due to drone ...
Mississippi State University

MSU flight lab studies ag aviation patterns with eye toward UAS integration

STARKVILLE, Miss.—One hundred years after airplanes were first used in applying insecticide to crops, a Mississippi State flight lab seeks to understand how today’s agricultural aviators can safely ...
The Aviationist

Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full: Aircraft carrier’s recovery procedures

The top image shows an F/A-18E Super Hornet from the “Dambusters” of VFA-195 as it flies over the USS George Washington (CVN 73) aircraft carrier. The photograph is not only cool because it depicts ...
Government Executive

Whistleblower agency alerts White House to troubling pattern in aviation safety

This story has been updated. The Office of Special Counsel is so concerned over multiple disclosures by Federal Aviation Administration whistleblowers citing safety lapses at major U.S. airports that ...
Flightglobal

INSIGHT FROM FLIGHTGLOBAL: Mid-life aircraft trading patterns and the impact of lessors

Operating lessors today manage 40% of the commercial jet passenger fleet and are a key player in the aviation industry. Forty years ago, operating lessors accounted for less than 2% of the fleet and ...