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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released footage of the LaGuardia Airport (LGA) crash site from the early stages of its investigation into the tragedy. Made public on March 26, 2025, the video shows the staggering scale of the collision on Runway 4 and the impact on both the Air Canada Express Bombardier CRJ900 and the fire truck. During her first media briefing on March 23, 2026, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters that, following the crash, a “tremendous amount of debris” had been found across the runway and taxiway. While several photos have already been shared of the…

Russian aviation blogger Pavel Koshkin was killed when the Alto NG aircraft he was flying crashed near Kolomna, southeast of Moscow, in an incident that Russian news outlet Mediazona reported may have involved a case of mistaken identity by Russian air defenses. According to Mediazona, the aircraft went down on March 20, 2026, near the bank of the Oka River, killing two people on board. Russia’s emergency ministry confirmed the crash, while Rosaviatsiya, the country’s civil aviation authority, opened an investigation, but had not announced a preliminary cause as of March 26. Mediazona identified Koshkin, 39, as the pilot of…

This has been a mighty long process, so let’s hope things go more smoothly this time than last time… United & AFA reach tentative agreement on new contract The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) and United Airlines have announced that they’ve reached a tentative agreement on a new contract for 30,000 flight attendants. For some background, in recent years we’ve seen flight attendants at most major airlines in the United States negotiate new contracts, following the pandemic. Delta flight attendants aren’t unionized, so they get proactive pay raises, but don’t negotiate new contracts in the same way, since they don’t…

The union representing around 5,000 workers building the F-35 at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, plant has opened contract negotiations with the company, with talks beginning on March 26, 2026. The workers are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 776, which covers production employees at the Fort Worth facility, the main final assembly site for all three F-35 variants, as well as smaller groups at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland and Edwards Air Force Base in California. District 776 said its bargaining committee entered talks backed by IAM International President Brian Bryant…

President Trump claims that employees at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will start getting paid, despite there being no end in sight for the partial government shutdown. That could spell the end of chaos at airports… maybe? Trump claims he found a way to pay TSA employees Over the past several weeks, we’ve increasingly seen chaos at airports in the United States, given the partial government shutdown, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) not being funded. We’re seeing a record number of TSA employees calling in sick, as they haven’t been paid for their last three paycheck periods, and…

By Bjorn Fehrm March 27, 2026, ©. Leeham News: We have started a series of articles about the Blended WingBody (BWB) as a potentially more efficient passenger-carrying airliner design than the classical Tube And Wing (TAW) configuration. In the second article last week, we saw that the aircraft skin surface area, which creates the dominant skin friction drag, was smaller than that of the same capacity Boeing 767 for the 250-seat JetZero Z4, but not for the 165-seat Ascent1000, compared with the Boeing 737 MAX 8. Both the Z4 and the Ascent1000 had a larger wingspan than the 767 and…

Israel-based electric aircraft developer AIR said it has surpassed $1 billion in orders, driven by orders for its AIR ONE personal eVTOL aircraft and its AIR Cargo heavy-lift unmanned aircraft, according to a company announcement. The company said the total includes “more than 3,300 customers on a wait list” for aircraft, with some of them having already placed deposits. The company said the $1 billion figure includes 3,290 AIR ONE personal aircraft orders and more than 25 AIR Cargo heavy-lift UAS orders. AIR said two cargo aircraft have already been delivered and that it expects to produce and deliver more…

Also: World’s ‘Ugliest Aircraft’, Airplane-Helicopter Traffic Changes, 737 MAX Class Action, Spirit Heads for ‘un-Bankruptcy?’ AOPA is stepping back from the abyss… and serious changes are afoot… but the big question is whether or not that will help them out of the huge hole they dug for themselves in the preceding weeks. AOPA has confirmed that Luke Wippler has been elected as the new Chairman of the AOPA Board of Trustees. Outgoing Chair Jim Hauslein is on his way out. Permanently. NAA has announced that Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Team is the recipient of the 2025 Robert J.…

During The Takeoff They Heard A Loud Bang Right After Rotation On March 7, 2026, about 1323 central standard time, a Piper PA-12, N2511M, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Lockhart, Texas. The pilot and passenger sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight instructor reported that the airplane had about 25 gallons of fuel on board and the weight of the airplane was about 1,700 pounds. His student was on his last day of tailwheel endorsement training, and they were conducting…

Russian aviation blogger Pavel Koshkin was killed when the Alto NG aircraft he was flying crashed near Kolomna, southeast of Moscow, in an incident that Russian news outlet Mediazona reported may have involved a case of mistaken identity by Russian air defenses. According to Mediazona, the aircraft went down on March 20, 2026, near the bank of the Oka River, killing two people on board. Russia’s emergency ministry confirmed the crash, while Rosaviatsiya, the country’s civil aviation authority, opened an investigation but had not announced a preliminary cause as of March 26. Mediazona identified Koshkin, 39, as the pilot of…