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.
Transport Canada (TC), prompted by findings in the probe of a 2010 Air Nelson Q300 that landed without its nose gear fully extended, has ordered Dash 8 Classic operators to fix a faulty landing gear lockdown indication system that can mask a gear malfunction. The airworthiness directive (AD), published earlier this month and effective Feb. 27, gives operators 100 days or 600 hr. to inspect landing gear alternate indication phototransistors. Follow-up checks are required at the same interval.
Air France-KLM Group’s combined maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) unit, bolstered by several new ventures, grew third-party revenues 12% in 2013 to €1.2 billon ($1.7 billion) and is in position to deliver more of the same thanks to a swelling order book.
