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.
As of March 1, investigators working on an alleged parts fraud ring in Italy still hadn't released evidence implicating Panaviation of selling inventory with falsified records. Meanwhile, the two U.S. dealers most closely tied to the Rome-based dealer got tentative word from FAA that their Panaviation-supplied parts checked out (O&M, March 2002).
NTSB has adopted the final report on the October 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, concluding that the relief first officer put the plane into an unrecoverable dive for undetermined reasons, The DAILY has learned.
The User Request Evaluation Tool (URET), the final element of Free Flight Phase 1, is up and running at five regional air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs), and both feedback from controllers and data culled from trial periods suggest the technology is paying huge dividends for the National Airspace System.
