Air Safety

The European Commission (EC) has banned all eight airlines operating from the West African nation of Benin from flying to Europe because of their poor safety record. The EC also […]

The National Transportation Safety Board late last week released its preliminary aviation accident statistics for 2008, showing improvements in some industry sectors but increased accident rates in others. Fatalities among […]

Analysis of flight data points away from severe aircraft icing as a key factor in the Feb. 12 crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo, NY in which 49 […]

The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) ability to successfully implement its revolutionary satellite-based Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is threatened by the lack of a detailed plan and measurable goals, […]

Following two engine thrust rollbacks on Boeing 777s powered by Rolls-Royce RB211 Trent 800 powerplants, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued an urgent safety recommendation calling for redesign […]

Following disclosure that a faulty altimeter played a critical role in the Turkish Airlines B-737-800 (TC-JGE) crash at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Feb. 25, Boeing is advising 737 pilots to […]

A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 (TC-JGE) crashed short of landing at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Feb. 25, killing nine of the 135 people aboard (128 passenger and seven crew) and […]

Ever since 1994 when an American Eagle flight en route to Chicago in freezing rain went into a high-speed dive and crashed near Roselawn, Indiana, killing all 68 people aboard, […]

Fifty people were killed Thursday night Feb. 12 when Continental Connection Flight 3407, a Bombardier Q400 operated by Colgan Air, crashed about five miles short of Buffalo Niagara International. The […]

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the 2007 midair collision involving two electronic news gathering (ENG) helicopters in Phoenix, AZ was both pilots’ failure to ‘see and avoid’ the […]