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.
FAA issued its final rule Jan. 15 on tracking life-limited parts removed from service. While the agency decided against yielding to calls for an all-new proposed rule, the final regulation includes several key revisions suggested by people who submitted comments.
FAA has issued a suspected unapproved parts (SUP) notice based on the Italian probe into parts broker Panaviation, but it remains unclear whether the Rome-based company has done anything wrong. Meanwhile, The DAILY has learned that the parts seized in last week's raids on Panaviation hangars are owned by a U.S. distributor and were headed for the U.S., but not as certified-new or reconditioned parts.
NTSB is close to approving a revised final report on the October 1994 American Eagle/Simmons Airlines ATR 72 accident near Roselawn, Ind., and will concede that, contrary to the board's original conclusions, evidence from previous ATR icing incidents did not clearly foreshadow a Roselawn-like event. The new version will not conclude that ATR and French regulators failed to act on obvious ties between a series of ATR 42 icing incidents and the Roselawn accident, sources told The DAILY.
