Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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An ATR 72-212 turboprop operated by Cuba’s Aero Caribbean crashed on November 4 in the ­central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus, killing all 61 ­passengers and seven crewmembers. Flight 883, en route from ­Santiago de Cuba to Havana, lost contact with air traffic controllers at about 5:40 local time, after declaring “an emergency situation.”
 Cuban aviation authorities ­subsequently suspended all flights as a result of ­Hurricane Tomas, which had been ­approaching the region at the time of the crash. 
 The aircraft, MSN 459, rolled off the ATR production line in Toulouse in November 1995. It had accumulated almost 25,000 flight hours during the course of more than 34,500 flights. Aero Caribbean had operated the airplane since October 2006.

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An ATR 72-212 turboprop operated by Cuba’s Aero Caribbean crashed on  November 4 in the ­central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus, killing  all 61 ­passen

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