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.
“A majority of European States have declared that, in case of volcanic eruption affecting European airspace, they would avoid unnecessary closure of airspace and recognize that operators will make their own decisions to operate or not into areas of forecast ash contamination, based on their VA SRA,” or Volcanic Ash Safety Risk Assessment plans, the agency explains in a new safety bulletin.
Year-over-year premium international traffic was up 4.9% in April, bettering March 4.6%, IATA notes. But bigger-picture trends continue to suggest the relative stagnation since mid-2014 is not going away anytime soon.
“We have become aware of cases of inverted installation [upside-down] of the pitch trim switches in the control yoke,” ANAC explained in a special airworthiness bulletin, citing Embraer service bulletins sent out in late February and early March.
