The Aardvark was still in service for Operation Desert Storm, in early 1991. The jet performed exceptionally, with 3.2 successful missions for every unsuccessful mission—the best success ratio for

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NTSB Launches Go-Team to Investigate UPS Flight 1354 Crash in Alabama


WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board is launching a full Go-Team to investigate this morning’s crash of a United Parcel Service Airbus A300. The crash occurred while on approach to Runway 18 at Birmingham International Airport in Birmingham, Ala.
Senior Aviation Investigator Dan Bower will serve as investigator-in-charge. NTSB Board Member Robert Sumwalt is accompanying the team and will serve as the principal spokesman during the on-scene phase of the investigation.

Public Affairs Specialists Eric Weiss and Keith Holloway will also be in Alabama to coordinate media related activities. Eric can be reached by mobile phone at 202-557-1350.

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French Airbus Package Not Called Bailout

ven though France is putting $6.5 billion euros into banks with the sole intent of financing Airbus purchases, this plan is not being called a bailout.

Airbus is owned by the European aerospace group. In fact, the French state owns 15% of EADS. At the same time, EADS is cutting 10,000 jobs because of cost over-runs to the A380 super-jumbo project.

This is the first time that the French government has directed this much funding into the aviation/aeronautics industry, apparently a diversionary tactic to allay damage to their hard-hit automobile/tourism industry. This funding is in addition to a prior pledge of smaller scale assistance to aeronautical suppliers and researchers.

Expect protests from Boeing over the controversial nature of state aid.

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Coast Guard suspends search for overdue pilot

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard suspended it’s search at approximately 8 a.m. Saturday, for a 50-year-old man who reportedly lost communications after departing St. Petersburg, Fl., Tuesday, in a single engine airplane.

The Coast Guard received a call from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at approximately 4 p.m., Thursday reporting that Mark Nichter, a 50-year-old pilot, lost radio communications, at approximately 9,900 feet, Tuesday, 140 miles southwest of St. Petersburg, Fl.

Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., launched an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane and crew that conducted three search patterns, totaling 1,890 square miles, an area larger than Rhode Island. An Urgent Marine Information Broadcast (UMIB) was also issued to mariners as a caution in the area.

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