Air Safety

Boeing, which last week suffered a plunging share price as the result of further delays in its 787 Dreamliner program, will nervously await the outcome of the crash investigation involving […]

About 60 percent of the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing F-15 Eagle fighter fleet has been found fit and ready to fly again. About 260 F-15s were returned to full operational […]

While air safety experts differ on just how safe last year was, they all agree that the overall trends regarding aviation safety is good. Pronouncements during 2007 and release of […]

U.S. President Bush on Dec. 13 signed a bill to raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots to 65, allowing senior pilots to fly an additional five years. The […]

A "distressing" Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says that U.S. air travelers face "a high risk of catastrophic runway collision" because of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inattention to the problem, […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Air Transport Association (ATA) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) held its 4th Annual International Aviation Safety Forum outside Washington, DC, Nov. 28-30, […]

The Bush Administration has announced several new measures to reduce air travel delays over the upcoming holiday season and beyond. The announcement also included a new proposal to increase a […]

Transportation Security Administrator Kip Hawley last week told a House panel that his agency concurs with new suggestions put forth by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to tighten airport security […]

Six near runway collisions were narrowly averted in just the last six months, leading the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to reiterate that the issue of runway safety remains one […]

By Calvin Biesecker In the wake of recent reports about federal airport security screeners failing to uncover most fake bombs taken through checkpoints by covert Red Teams, the Transportation Security […]