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The Straits Times: A plane breached Beijing’s tightly controlled airspace and crashed. Why couldn’t it be stopped?

A fatal crash by a light aircraft into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper underscores the challenges in securing urban airspaces, aviation experts including Todd Curtis say, as the Chinese authorities released their investigation findings on July 2, nearly a week after the accident.

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Tribune: K2 Airways cargo crash families push for international help to find black boxes

Relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that crashed into ​the Arabian Sea off Pakistan are urging an international search effort to find the flight recorders to determine the cause. John Goglia and Todd Curtis are quoted experts in this coverage.

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Reuters: Pakistan cargo crash families push for international help to find black boxes

Todd Curtis and John Goglia are cited experts in this article about relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that crashed into ​the Arabian Sea off Pakistan last week urging an international search effort to find the flight recorders to determine the cause.

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Live Q&A Monday July 27 – Canceled

This event has been canceled. The detectives had too much fun at Oshkosh to prepare for this event! Catch you next month – August 24 at 2pm.

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9News: Aviation expert raises security questions after person hit and killed by plane at Denver International Airport

Federal investigators are examining how a person breached the perimeter fence at Denver International Airport and was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines jet during takeoff Friday night, raising serious questions about airport security. Greg Feith is an expert cited in the media coverage.

“These are rare events when you have someone breaching the operational side of an airport, especially an international airport,” Feith said. “Given the security that we all go through as a passenger, that same security really exists in the operational area that is within the perimeter fence.”

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PBS News: Jets were 300 feet apart in Boston close call that forced Delta flight to abort landing, expert says

Todd Curtis is an export cited in this article about the near miss at Logan Airport.

Todd Curtis, a former safety engineer at Boeing, estimated the distance between the two jetliners using Flightradar24, a website that tracks flights. Curtis now coproduces a podcast about flight safety issues.

“This is a significant incident,” Curtis said, adding that it was particularly concerning because it involved two professional airline crews.

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10Boston: Jets were 300 feet apart in Boston close call that forced flight to abort landing

A Delta Air Lines jet was roughly 300 feet (90 meters) from an American Airlines plane during a close call at Boston’s airport that forced the Delta aircraft to abort a weekend landing attempt. Expert information provided by Todd Curtis.

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