Air Safety

A new air cargo security system under development by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) advisory group would require only "elevated risk" air parcels to be screened. But the working group […]

The effort to modernize the service difficulty report (SDR) system began with a bang and ended with a whimper. Almost five years ago to the day, the Federal Aviation Administration […]

Pilots who start flying earlier in life, and have a higher level of training, are at lower risk of being involved in a weather-related general aviation (GA) accident then those […]

Infants and small children will continue to run the risk of being hurled from their parents arms or crushed by their parents bodies, rather than be protected in a child […]

Something as simple and basic as improved runway markings may help avoid incursions, which in their most serious form are near-collisions, or worse. At Ted Francis Green Airport in Providence, […]

All of the flight attendants wound up in the hospital as a result of the airplane’s encounter with turbulence. The cockpit crew had requested a deviation from the normal flight […]

Incident at Toronto illustrates need It may be useful for aircraft to have a landing system that is analogous to the system used on takeoff – one that advises when […]

Weather, Landing, Other Factors At Issue The Aug. 2 landing of Air France Flight 358, an Airbus A340 from Paris with 309 passengers and crew aboard, at Toronto Pearson International […]

Cost and need questioned by industry Letters from four congressman urging installation of ejectable cockpit voice and flight data recorders (CVR/FDR) represent an unusual submission to the docket regarding Federal […]

But deployment decision is problematic The time is fast approaching when the Bush administration and Congress must decide whether missile defenses for airliners are worth the money. In the next […]