February 2009Over 300 members of the RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force beganplanning NextGen on an aggressive timetable. The report provides responses and an action plan and are being incorporated in order to to achieve the 2018 operational
capabilities. The plan will be released in early March 2010.
Read more about the Next Gen Task Force. (pdf)
From 2:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. on two nights this week, the Plane Train system will shut down completely, leaving no train service available.
At least one person was killed on Saturday when a twin-engine plane with six people on board crashed near Copake in Columbia County. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the fatality in a press conference on Saturday afternoon but could not specify how many other passengers survived. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the Mitsubishi
It is not clear how many people were on the aircraft and if the crash caused any deaths.
‘For reasons unknown at this time, the plane veered from the runway causing it to collide with a parked plane’
Police said the 22-year-old Ohio man was flying from Charlevoix to Toledo.
