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View history; General ... The Pilot Records Improvement Act (PRIA) of 1996 is a United States federal law created in response to several fatal aviation accidents ...
General aviation aircraft production in the U.S. -- following its 30-year peak in the late 1970s—dropped sharply over the next few years to a fraction of its original volume [12] —from approximately 18,000 units in 1978 [8] [13] [14] [15] to 4,000 units in 1986.
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Aircraft maintenance checks are periodic inspections that have to be done on all commercial and civil aircraft after a certain amount of time or usage. Military aircraft normally follow specific maintenance programmes which may, or may not, be similar to those of commercial and civil operators.
An Airbus A321 from Iberia having its CFM56 changed. Aircraft maintenance is the performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft or aircraft part, including overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of modifications, compliance with airworthiness directives and repair.
1996 remains one of the deadliest years in aviation history. This includes the deadliest accident of the year, the 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision of 12 November, over Charkhi Dadri , India , in which all 349 people were killed aboard both aircraft involved.
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was an agency of the federal government of the United States, formed in 1940 from a split of the Civil Aeronautics Authority [1] and abolished in 1985, that regulated aviation services (including scheduled passenger airline service [2]) and, until the establishment of the National Transportation Safety Board in 1967, conducted air accident investigations.
Aviation law is the branch of law that concerns flight, air travel, and associated legal and business concerns.Some of its area of concern overlaps that of admiralty law and, in many cases, aviation law is considered a matter of international law due to the nature of air travel.