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As 2015 comes to a close, COPA would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the COPA eFlight a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7.
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Aviation Pros via Leader-Post
From April 2: No one was injured in a plane crash at a Saskatchewan, Canada, airport — largely because nobody was in the plane when it left the ground or landed. Nipawin RCMP responded to the town's airport shortly before 6 p.m. Following their initial investigation, police believe the pilot attempted to hand-prop the small two-seat plane.
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Inside Edition
From April 30: Eighty-five-year-old pilot Chris Georgaklis pulled off a breathtaking feat when things didn't go as planned during a landing. Georgaklis was coming in for a landing in Fort Pierce, Florida, in his small plane with his dog, Buddy, when he realized he was coming in too fast. He quickly raised the landing gear as the plane descended and began skidding down the runway. He explained, "I lifted them right up, but it also caused the plane to drop quite a bit, so I'd say the plane dropped maybe six to eight feet."
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BBC News
From Oct. 15: Ferry flying is a lucrative but high-risk industry. Elite pilots deliver small planes across oceans and continents — distances these aircraft were not designed to fly. Flying alone across the Atlantic Ocean in a tiny, single-engine plane at low altitudes, sometimes in extreme weather conditions, is not for the faint-hearted. Things can and do go wrong.
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National Post
From Sept. 17: In the early evening of Sept. 11, 2001, while the smouldering New York skyline was the focus of distraught residents and the world’s cameras, all staring upward, an RCMP officer on a special mission saw the gaping hole left by the collapse of the twin towers from a unique perspective: looking down from the air.
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Daily Mail
From June 11: An air taxi pilot did not know he had been involved in a mid-air collision and landed on a second aircraft until he climbed out of the cockpit and noticed the wreckage. Antonio Benavides, 32, was approaching Talkeetna Airport in Alaska in a Cessna 185 with four passengers, when at 100 feet above the runway it struck a smaller Cessna 172 piloted by Cole Hagge, 27. Benavides continued his approach to the 1,300-metre runway oblivious to the aircraft below him.
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The Globe and Mail
From April 9: The weather was deteriorating rapidly on the morning of March 17 as the pilots of a Northern Thunderbird Air flight searched for Runway 19 in Blue River, British Columbia. In the dull light and falling snow, they finally made out the 5,000-foot stretch of pavement a minute before landing, descending at 300 kilometres per hour. The underused runway hadn't been plowed since the previous evening and snow dusted the surface, hiding patches of ice.
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AVweb
From July 30: You're approaching the end of an excellent flight on a lovely day; life is good. Now, on downwind with the speed down into the gear extension range, you move the gear handle to the down position, keeping your hand on it until you get a solid gear down indication — as you've done scores of times. Except ... nothing happens. There's no thunk as the gear doors cycle open and the uplocks disengage. There's no deceleration as drag increases when the gear drops into the wind. Nothing changes.
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Waterloo Record
From March 19: They say you can't get something for nothing. Well, that didn't deter some air show enthusiasts from taking in the action on the cheap, parking their cars and setting up lawn chairs on the roadside around the Region of Waterloo International Airport instead of paying their way. That was just one of the problems plaguing organizers of the Waterloo Air Show, who had grand ambitions when their first show took flight in 2009 and they overcame some of those challenges over the years, at least attendance wise.
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Popular Science
From Jan. 22: When Mike Adams called from the X-15 that he was in a spin, no one listening on the ground could believe it. The rocket-powered airplane was traveling around four times the speed of sound in the thin upper atmosphere. How could it be spinning? His wife and mother, both at Edwards that day, were quietly led out of the viewing area adjacent to the control room while ground crews tried to figure out what was going on.
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COPA
From Jan. 29: Since 2011, Osoyoos Town Council, the mayor and town staff have been meeting regularly with several members of the business community — who later formed the Osoyoos Airport Development Society — to discuss the development and expansion of the Osoyoos Airport (CBB9) presently 2,575 feet paved.
There has unfortunately been a recent motion passed by Town Council to repurpose the airport lands for industrial use. Their reasoning is that the airport is underutilized and does not serve as an economic driver in any meaningful way.
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