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.
Brazil’s civil aviation agency recommends that Embraer 170- and 190-series operators closely monitor aircraft brake wear to prevent debris-shedding brake failures. The problem, revealed in a safety bulletin issued in August 2011 and updated last month, is being caused by cracks in disc grooves designed to minimize vibration, Brazil’s ANAC reports. In the most severe cases, brake assembly lugs are detaching and damaging aircraft or ending up as foreign object debris on airfields.
EASA has ordered CFM CFM56-5 and -5B operators in the Commonwealth of Independent States to limit use of TS-1 fuel or replace hydro mechanical units after several inflight shutdowns have been traced to fuel contaminants.
Aveos’s airframe division—after failing to attract a buyer—could be broken up and sold to six companies, while its component business has several interested buyers. The Canadian firm has asked for court approval to break the airframe division into 24 lots and sell them for a total of C$10.8 million ($10.6 million), according to a filing by the court-appointed chief restructuring officer (CRO) put in place after Aveos on March 19 shut down and sought protection under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.
