Report: Teacher among dead in crash of plane that left Conn.

Registration will allow you to post comments on ctpost.com and create a ctpost.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. According to the FAA, authorities have identified 41-year-old Munidat Raj Persaud of Waterbury as the owner and pilot of this Piper twin turbo prop airplane that crashed into the water about three miles southeast of Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. Saturday afternoon.

NBAA: Textron confident Longitude certification is imminent

A Textron Aviation Cessna Citation Longitude rose off the runway at Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower National airport on a blistering hot day in September. The super-midsize jet climbed swiftly under the power of two Honeywell HTF7700L engines to nearly 45,000ft, at which point Textron executives reviewed why they think Longitude is a winner.

Runway safety bill signed into law after near-disasters at SFO

An aviation bill was signed into law Friday that included four amendments geared toward preventing runway accidents following a series of close calls at San Francisco International Airport last year. Sparked by a series of reports by the Bay Area News Group, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier authored four amendments to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.

Trump to sign aviation bill

President Donald Trump will sign a bill on Friday granting the U.S. government new powers to shoot down threatening drones and creating new consumer protections for airline passengers, officials said on Thursday. Trump is set to sign the bill on Friday that will, among other measures, bar airlines from removing seated passengers and require the Federal Aviation Administration to write new rules to allow commercial drones to deliver packages.

Southern California airfield has 2 plane crashes in 2 days

This still photo taken from video provided by KTTV-TV/foxla.com shows the wreckage of a small plane that crashed on the border between a nursery and Brackett Field Airport in La Verne, Calif., killing the pilot, the lone occupant, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elizabeth Cory said the plane crashed while approaching the airport.

Congress targets minimum size for airline seats

The House voted Wednesday to direct the federal government to set a minimum size for airline seats, bar passengers from being kicked off overbooked planes, and consider whether to restrict animals on planes. Those and other passenger-related provisions were included in a bill to authorize Federal Aviation Administration programs for five years.

Transportation | More input on jet noise, protection against being…

A five-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration contains measures to mitigate noise for neighborhoods near O'Hare and Midway international airports. A law empowering flyers and residents hit by jet noise passed with strong backing from Democrats and Republicans in the midst of a partisan war over a Supreme Court nomination this week.