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This week in the news, there's a new Wing Spar AD for Piper Aircraft.

A drone saves the day in an unusual way,

and we finally have a clue to those reports of a jetpack pilot flying near LAX.

All this and more, and the news starts now.

From Aveweb.com, new Piper Wing SPAR AD affects 5,400 aircraft.

Owners of Piper PA-28 and Piper PA-32 models have been hit with a series of airworthiness directors over the last year, including one related to main spar corrosion,

but the latest AD stems from a fatal accident in 2018 when a Piper Arrow conducting flight training

lost a wing and killed the FAA examiner and student.

The arrow was 11 years old, but had accumulated more than 7,600 hours exclusively in the training

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