Is it that easy to mistake the parking brake for the flap lever?  This seasoned airline crew did.  Always confirm any selection of a control with an indication.  Don’t get complacent!

After decades of government rule and intervention leading to an ailing airline manufacturing industry Sukhoi Aircraft has rolled out a new airliner – the Superjet 100.  This is the first commercial airliner produced in nearly a decade in Russia. The 103 passenger airliner takes aim at a market dominated by many other manufacturers.

NBAA today announced a record total of 1,152 Exhibitors at its 60th Annual Meeting & Convention (NBAA2007), a sold-out Static Display of Aircraft at nearby Fulton County Airport and a final attendance total of over 32,000. "This was an enormously successful Convention, and NBAA's 60th anniversary has been an enormously successful year," NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen said. Review highlights from the week's activities, including videos, photos, podcasts, articles and more, at NBAA's Convention News Bureau online at www.nbaa.org/2007.

Cessna Aircraft Company, the world’s leading manufacturer of general aviation aircraft and a subsidiary of Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT), said today it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation to acquire selected assets and certain liabilities of the Bend, Oregon-based aircraft manufacturer.

After twelve full days the search continues for missing adventurer Steve Fossett.  The focus of the search has been narrowed to a fifty mile radius of the Flying M Ranch.  As posted on Fossett’s blog, “It is now believed that Steve Fossett was unlikely to have ventured far afield (such as crossing the Sierra Nevada range), but that he was more likely to have been on a local pleasure flight - and that he probably was not surveying sites for the upcoming land speed record project.”

After two recent landing accidents Montreal-based Bombardier is recommending that some of its Q-400 turboprop planes be grounded and inspected. The decision was made after two emergency landings within a seven day period involving commercial airline operations. Wednesday morning, a Scandinavian Airlines Q-400 skidded off the runway and smashed one wing into the ground after the plane's right-side landing gear failed to lower during an emergency landing in Vilnius, Lithuania. Luckily, none of the 52 onboard was hurt. Three days earlier a Q-400 carrying 73 people caught fire after a crash landing. Both aircraft were operated by Scandinavian Airlines.