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The US House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a series of bills Jan. 21, including legislation that directs the FAA to conduct a safety report on how unmanned aircraft system incursions impact wildfire suppression efforts. Another bill would modernize FAA requirements by allowing pilots and other certificate holders to present digital certificates instead of physical ones.

(MyMotherLode.com) – A California Highway Patrol helicopter crew assisted local search-and-rescue teams with hoisting the hiker Jan. 22 from a canyon along the Tuolumne River.

(Task & Purpose) – According to a US Air Force (USAF) accident investigation, children and teachers should have been 600 ft. away when a USAF HH-60W landed at their elementary school for an April 2025 family event at Kadena Air Force Base in Japan. Instead, they were less than 100 ft. The report notes that a teacher’s death after being thrown to the ground by rotor wash resulted from poor planning and a “false confidence of safety” among pilots, crew, and leaders of the USAF 33rd Rescue Squadron.

The webcast of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) public board meeting starts at 9 am eastern (UTC-5) tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 27. The meeting will focus on the release of the probable cause of a Jan. 29, 2025, midair collision between a regional passenger jet and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA).

The United States Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) seminar for helicopter pilots, aviation managers, safety officers, instructors, and other aviation leadership starts at 11 am HST (UTC-10) tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 27, at Rainbow Helicopters in Honolulu.

The helicopter crew reunited Jan. 16 with Jake McCollum, a teenager from Bundaberg, Queensland, who was injured after falling about 80 m (262 ft.) while hiking on a mountain in Biggenden during November 2025. The crew winched McCollum after locating him in dense foliage.

(Upworthy) – For decades, river restoration involved removing logs, with scientists viewing them as barriers to fish movement. Now, helicopters are placing logs along rivers in central Washington to restore natural habitats.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of the accident to be the pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a power-line pole’s static arm during gusty wind conditions, light turbulence, and low-level wind shear conditions, which resulted in main-rotor blade contact with the static arm and a loss of control.

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined the probable cause of the accident to be the pilot’s inadequate fuel planning, which resulted in a loss of power due to fuel exhaustion. Investigators identified an unlit landing zone as a contributing factor.

Bangalore, India–based SAMSOS will provide the electrical wiring interconnection system (EWIS) for the SkyDrive SD-05 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.