A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Curt Epstein

Hawker Beechcraft 1900D, Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept. 25, 2011–After a sightseeing flight around Mount Everest, the turboprop twin crashed into a hillside in the Kathmandu Valley while on approach to Kathmandu-Tribhuvan International Airport. According to reports, weather at the time of the accident was overcast with low clouds and the Buddha Air-operated 1900D burst into flames on impact. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal is investigating the accident, which claimed the lives of all 16 passengers and three crewmembers on board.

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Hawker Beechcraft 1900D, Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept. 25, 2011

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