Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the hardware side of the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.
Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he helped launch a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with the American Association of Airport Executives, where he served as editor of Airport Magazine; and 20 years in full- and part-time roles with Aviation Week writing primarily about safety and the aftermarket.
Broderick was named the 2020 Aerospace Journalist of the Year by the Aerospace Media Awards. He also shared in a 2020 Neal Award for Best News Coverage with Aviation Week Network colleagues. Broderick and Aviation Week colleague John Croft shared the 2015 Flight Safety International Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award recognizing "significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness."
He graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Communications ('91) and earned an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications ('13) from West Virginia University.
Air Canada’s low-cost Rouge subsidiary is beefing up its intra-North America operations and expanding west, adding five U.S. cities and doubling its Canadian stations by launching service in Calgary and Vancouver. The expansion will see Rouge take over current Air Canada service between Vancouver and Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Anchorage, as well as between Calgary and Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The changes will be made by July 1.
Inmarsat analyzed satellite data from routine flights to learn patterns that helped investigators conclude that data received from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) shows the aircraft's last known position after hours of flying was over a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean. The new analysis, done by Inmarsat and the U.K. Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) with contributions from Boeing and others, convinced Malaysian officials that the Boeing 777 flew south after it disappeared from radar and it did not land safely.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is urging air-navigation service providers (ANSPs) and their regulators to follow published missed-approach procedures so pilot distraction is minimized during these high-workload scenarios. In a safety information bulletin (SIB) published March 20, EASA calls on ANSPs and civil aviation authorities to heed specific recommendations in a 2013 study by France’s BEA accident investigation agency.
