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Pinnacle Probe Finding the cause of an accident often leads to a cure--and the ongoing probe of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 is highlighting the need for enhanced high-altitude training and safety management programs at regional airlines. Those shortcomings came to the fore during the NTSB's June 13-15 hearing that aimed to gather more information about the events leading to the Oct. 14, 2004, crash of a Bombardier CL600-2B19 (a.k.a. CRJ200) regional jet that resulted in the deaths of the two pilots on board. The board's findings show that on that date Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, operating as Northwest Airlink, departed...

Associated Retired Aviation ProfessionalsPost Office Box 90, Clements, Maryland 20624 USA  The Case Against the Zoom-Climb of TWA Flight 800            On July 16, 1996, TWA Flight 800 was climbing out of JFK when it experienced an explosion of the center fuel tank at 13,800 feet.  Everything forward of the wing was blown away.  That much everyone agrees upon.  This occurred offshore of Long Island within eyesight of thousands of people. The FBI interviewed about 750 witnesses and about 100 of these witnesses saw a bright streak rising towards TWA800 prior to the explosion.  In an effort to explain what these...

--For Immediate Release-- FOIA Law Suit Reaches Boston’s Federal Appeals Court FBI Cannot Locate Documents, Again On September 12, 2002 the 1st Circuit Federal Appeals Court in Boston will hear arguments from the FBI and the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO) over the release of data and analyses from the FBI’s investigation into TWA Flight 800. Flight 800 crashed off the coast of Long Island in 1996, killing all 230 onboard. FIRO is hoping to gain access to the reports and laboratory analyses of foreign objects found during victim autopsy examinations. Some of those objects have been determined to...