Air Safety

Although both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Air Transport Association (ATA) are raising certain safety concerns with very light jets (VLJs), some of the aircrafts’ manufacturers believe the […]

Regional airline pilots soon should be able to tap into a more detailed and real-time picture of weather problems than what they have now, even better than what pilots for […]

Two new runway technologies still in the testing phases will help pilots avoid collisions with other aircraft and airport vehicles during both takeoffs and arrivals. On the arrival side, the […]

Like most areas other than national security and defense, federal spending for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the safety programs it runs would decrease or just barely hold their […]

There has to be a better way of finding and removing runway debris — like all the metal scraps, bolts, animal carcasses and garden-variety litter — than periodically sending grounds […]

Beyond all the publicity around a recent government audit about the lack of oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and airlines of non-certificated aircraft repair stations (Air Safety Week, […]

Aviation safety hangs in the balance as contract talks between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the air traffic controllers’ union have stalemated. While FAA insists that it only wants […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is embarking on a 10-year plan to at least improve, if not fully bring up to standard, the runway ends at most of the nation’s […]

In 2006, the U.S. air safety community will continue its attempts to take the nation’s aviation network toward a "system safety approach" and to modernize many of its procedures, says […]

Investigators are homing in on metal fatigue, probably aggravated by corrosion or sloppy repair, as a primary cause of the Chalk’s Ocean Airways fatal accident on Dec. 19, 2005. The […]