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NASA WB-57F Canberra Belly-Lands at Ellington Field After Gear Failure; Crew Uninjured

A NASA WB-57F high-altitude Canberra performed a gear-up (belly) landing at Ellington Field, Houston, after a landing-gear failure at about 11:30 a.m. The vintage jet — one of only three WB-57Fs in service — slid along the runway; all crew members escaped uninjured but the aircraft sustained damage.

2026-01-27T12:31:11.539587-08:00

FlightGlobal

NTSB: Black Hawk nearly invisible against D.C. skyline before Jan. 2025 midair collision

2026-01-27T11:54:04.778519-08:00

The Air Current

UPS completes MD-11F retirement, books $137M charge and accelerates freighter modernization after November 2025 crash

2026-01-27T06:09:26.666323-08:00

AINonline

FAA unveils largest reorganization, creates SMS and AAM units

2026-01-27T08:41:44.188872-08:00

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NASA WB-57F Canberra Belly-Lands at Ellington Field After Gear Failure; Crew Uninjured A NASA WB-57F high-altitude Canberra performed a gear-up (belly) landing at Ellington Field, Houston, after a landing-gear failure at about 11:30 a.m. The vintage jet — one of only three WB-57Fs in service — slid along the runway; all crew members escaped uninjured but the aircraft sustained damage.

2026-01-27T12:31:11.539587-08:00

NASA WB-57F Canberra Belly-Lands at Ellington Field After Gear Failure; Crew Uninjured

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NTSB: Black Hawk nearly invisible against D.C. skyline before Jan. 2025 midair collision An NTSB digital reconstruction of the January 2025 collision between a PSA Airlines CRJ700 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk over Washington shows the military helicopter was nearly impossible to see against city lights at the time, highlighting limits of visual detection during urban approaches.

2026-01-27T11:54:04.778519-08:00

NTSB: Black Hawk nearly invisible against D.C. skyline before Jan. 2025 midair collision

Paddle Your Own Kanoo

KLM to resume Tel Aviv flights with Cyprus stop for crew changes after security cancellations KLM will resume scheduled flights to Tel Aviv after previously cancelling services over security concerns. The carrier plans a technical stop in Cyprus to facilitate crew changes, a temporary operational measure driven by safety and regulatory limits on crew rotations.

2026-01-27T11:32:51.481581-08:00

KLM to resume Tel Aviv flights with Cyprus stop for crew changes after security cancellations

AINonline

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FAA unveils largest reorganization, creates SMS and AAM units The FAA announced what it calls the largest reorganization in its history, establishing a dedicated Safety Management Systems (SMS) office and an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) unit while streamlining internal activities to improve efficiency and accelerate decision‑making across the agency.

2026-01-27T08:41:44.188872-08:00

FAA unveils largest reorganization, creates SMS and AAM units

Paddle Your Own Kanoo

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Philippine Airlines flight suffers total lavatory failure over Pacific; crew forced to remove human waste A Philippine Airlines flight over the Pacific experienced complete lavatory failures, forcing cabin crew to manually remove human waste mid‑flight. The incident compromised onboard sanitation and exposed crew to biohazard conditions, highlighting failures in maintenance and in‑flight equipment reliability during a long‑haul crossing.

2026-01-27T08:40:14.840275-08:00

Philippine Airlines flight suffers total lavatory failure over Pacific; crew forced to remove human waste

Reuters

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NTSB blames FAA inaction and systemic failures for Potomac midair collision; dozens of safety recommendations expected The NTSB found systemic regulatory failures, and faulted the FAA for not acting on a 2013 recommendation to move helicopter traffic away from Reagan National, as the cause of last year’s fatal midair collision. The board will vote on probable cause and issue dozens of safety recommendations.

2026-01-27T07:19:47.127506-08:00

NTSB blames FAA inaction and systemic failures for Potomac midair collision; dozens of safety recommendations expected

FlightGlobal

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Brazil probe links H160 ditching to suspected fatigue failure in main-rotor component Brazilian investigators released a sequence of events for the early-January ditching of an Airbus H160 off Brazil’s coast, identifying a suspected fatigue failure in a critical main-rotor component that likely led to loss of rotor function. Authorities have not yet reached a definitive conclusion on the fatigue mechanism.

2026-01-27T07:19:18.764983-08:00

Brazil probe links H160 ditching to suspected fatigue failure in main-rotor component

New York Times

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NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Reclaims Spotlight at Meeting on D.C. Crash That Killed 67 NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy is reclaiming the spotlight at Tuesday’s meeting into the Washington, D.C., midair collision that killed 67, underscoring the board’s intent to lead the investigation and shape determinations that could drive safety recommendations affecting military and civilian operations.

2026-01-27T06:57:04.287840-08:00

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Reclaims Spotlight at Meeting on D.C. Crash That Killed 67

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NASA WB-57F Canberra Belly-Lands at Ellington Field After Gear Failure; Crew Uninjured

NTSB: Black Hawk nearly invisible against D.C. skyline before Jan. 2025 midair collision

UPS completes MD-11F retirement, books $137M charge and accelerates freighter modernization after November 2025 crash

FAA unveils largest reorganization, creates SMS and AAM units

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