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, the Joint Aviation Authorities and Transport Canada are close to standardizing their return-to-service forms, the 8130-3, Form One, and 24-0078, respectively.
Regulators and industry leaders converge on Washington this week to grapple, yet again, with what is perhaps the U.S.' No. 1 aviation safety issue--runway incursions--at the FAA's Runway Safety National Summit. Their mission: to determine why incursion incidents are continuing unabated and find plausible solutions in making the runway environment a less hostile, user-friendly place for pilots, air traffic controllers and passengers.
Egyptian-led investigators of the EgyptAir Flight 990 accident have produced a scenario for mechanical failure of the Boeing 767 elevator control and note that such a failure occurred on another 767 on the ground. Meanwhile, some of the evidence originally cited by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board as pointing to a suicide theory is now being downplayed.
