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.
U.S. domestic airspace made an uneventful transition to Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) standards at 04:01 eastern time on Jan. 20, with the few aircraft in the air being re-assigned to RVSM altitudes or transitioned out of the affected airspace.
Congress appropriated $76.7 million to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in 2005, about $2 million more than NTSB requested. The lawmakers' directive: use the funding boost to add field investigators.
Last June's draft airworthiness directive ordering changes to Honeywell T53 helicopter engine maintenance programs was universally panned -- if the 30-some commenters who lodged their complaints in the public docket make up the universe, that is. This space gave plenty of ink to the dissenters (O&M, September 2004, p. 24); now it's time to give credit where credit is due.
