Air Safety

Page numbers are those in the TSB’s SR 111 report What was not being done or required before the accident: There was no regulatory requirement to install smoke barriers in […]

Hunt for ignition sources does not eliminate dangerous vapors The danger of commercial airline fuel tanks exploding persists, as evidenced by the effort to stamp out ignition sources through a […]

For long-range flights, it is better to avoid diversions by improving aircraft design than by developing and implementing costly passenger recovery plans, according to an Airbus memorandum obtained by ASW. […]

Loss in Indian Ocean has applications to commercial operations With unreliable instruments and no horizon cues in the night sky, the crew ejected, according to an account of the December […]

"This is a dangerous precedent," says Jim Hall, former Safety Board chairman By appointing the team to investigate the fatal Feb. 1 crash of the space shuttle Columbia, the action […]

Pilots decry requirement to carry guns in locked boxes when not in cockpit An initiative to arm volunteer U.S. airline pilots with handguns took a major step forward last week […]

Immediate Evacuation Not Always Warranted, Official Suggests LOS ANGELES, Calif. – A nationwide common frequency for pilots in emergencies to communicate with airport rescue and firefighting (ARFF) personnel has paid […]

About 90% of cases are traumatic, involving overexertion and being struck by objects LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Flight attendants are substantially more likely to be injured on the job than […]

Along with the tremendous attention paid to the state of aircraft wiring over the past three years, a small side effort has focused on the condition of circuit breakers. The […]

The crash of an Air Midwest twin-turboprop has pushed the cumulative toll of those killed from maintenance errors to more than 3,040 over the last three decades, raising new questions […]