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.
Investigators probing the in-flight loss of a rudder from an Air Transat Airbus A310-300 have discovered little that would explain why the flight-control surface tore away from the plane's tailfin without warning. But data analyzed thus far has allowed investigators to conclude that there are few similarities between this incident and two others in which rudders played a key role, including the November 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects to have a program office up running "in about a year" to conduct congressionally mandated security audits on FAA Part 145 foreign repair stations, agency Chief Systems Support Officer Tom Blank said at a recent airport industry conference in Washington, D.C.
T he squeeze of the fiscal year 2006 budget will cause some programs to go unfunded, could lead to fees for some services and presents a huge overall challenge to FAA. That's the grim but honest assessment that FAA Aircraft Maintenance Division Manager Dave Cann offered delegates at this year's Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) Annual Repair Symposium, held in early March.
