Air Safety

The FAA’s Last Word On Extended Range Safety Issues The FAA published on Jan. 8 the final rule on Extended Operations of Multi-Engined Turbine Powered Airplanes (ETOPS), effective Feb. 15. […]

The FAA’s MSAW Again Fails Its Primary Raison d’etre On August 4, 2005, at approximately 0206L, Flight N454MA an MU-2B-60 turbo-prop twin, was destroyed on impact with terrain near Parker, […]

Airport Security Checkpoints Also Stop Drunken Pilots A 51-year-old Australian pilot flying for Emirates was jailed last week for four months by a British court. His crime? He turned up […]

Boeing Boosts Pilotless Aircraft Whenever some heretic neophyte innocently asks on a pilot forum, "Why haven’t airliners been automated and pilots dispensed with?", he can be guaranteed a rabid response […]

The Aircraft’s Manufacturer Weighs In With A Rebuttal To Our Coverage Our highly critical analysis of the safety record of the MU-2 ("A Good Grounding in Grounding", Sept. 18 ASW) […]

The Renewed Push For Cockpit Image Recorder Systems The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) seems to agree with our headline. In a recently released study of 186 pages, the CAA’s […]

Clarity Emerges On Flight Level Assignments During The Legacy 600 And GOL 737 Collision Over Brazil In scrutinizing the events that led up to the fatal midair collision over the […]

A Deadly Event "Crashes" A Safety Celebration When he was in office during the early 1960s, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked by a journalist to name the biggest […]

Jetblue And The Physiology Of Profit JetBlue received a reprimand last week from the FAA for encouraging pilots to fly beyond their flight and duty time, as part of a […]

Opposites Attract: Seeking Closure Down In Brazil As the investigation into the fatal midair collision of the GOL 737 and the Embraer Legacy over Brazil’s Mato Grosso jungle proceeds, definite […]