Air Safety

In an embarrassing about-face, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has agreed to release data from a controversial $11.3 million airline safety study by the end of the year. The space agency […]

It is expected to take a month or more of closed-door contentious meetings between federal, airport and airline officials to determine whether voluntary or imposed flight reductions will fix "epidemic" […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Oct. 16 entered a new era of oversight, making a "historic" ruling on the probable cause of an unmanned aircraft accident. While the […]

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Cessna Aircraft investigators are probing the Oct. 7 crash of a Cessna Caravan 208 that killed 10 people returning from […]

Between fiscal years 1994-1996, 10 U.S. Part 121 air carriers suffered 16 fatal accidents where 800 people were killed, including two in 1996, the TWA 800 disaster off Long Island, […]

U.S. President Bush on Sept. 27 promised to implement steps to reduce air traffic congestion nationwide and alleviate the long delays that have left travelers stranded for hours on aircraft […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to mandate a low cost approach in addressing standards adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) concerning flightdeck door monitoring and ‘discreet’ crew […]

Former Federal Aviation Administrator Marion Blakey believes she scored major accomplishments while heading the U.S. aviation agency, but says the FAA needs "to take care of business" if the United […]

Nick Sabatini, the Federal Aviation Administration’s associate administrator for aviation safety, says "addressing the human element may well be one of the last frontiers in aviation safety." Speaking at the […]

On August 15, 2007, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and more than 40 aviation leaders from airlines, airports, air traffic control and pilot unions, and aerospace manufacturers, agreed to quickly […]