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Lion Air Jet’s Audio Black Box Could Hold Key to Mystery of Doomed Flight
Nov 5 2018 // Search crews hunting for the remains of Lion Air Flight JT610 have found the data recorder, engines and body parts of some of the 189 victims. But the key to solving the mystery behind the crash is still missing: the...
Crashed Lion Air Boeing Jet Previously Had Problems with Altitude, Speed Sensors
Nov 2 2018 // The Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea off Indonesia earlier this week had experienced problems with the sensors used to calculate altitude and speed on its previous flight, an issue that could help explain why...
Update: Divers Resume Search for 2nd Black Box from Crashed Lion Air Jet
Nov 2 2018 // Indonesian divers hunted on Friday for a second black box from an aircraft that crashed into the sea this week with the loss of all 189 people on board, as investigators tried to get data from a partly damaged recorder...
Black Box from Crashed Lion Air Jet Retrieved from Wreckage by Divers
Nov 1 2018 // Indonesian authorities on Thursday retrieved a flight data recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed and broke apart in shallow sea near the capital, Jakarta, this week, killing all 189 people on board. The country’s...
Search Team May Have Located Main Wreckage of Lion Air’s Crashed Jet
Oct 31 2018 // Indonesia may be close to finding the main wreckage of the Lion Air plane that crashed earlier this week, as the hunt for clues to what caused the country’s worst air disaster since 1997 continued into a third...
Typhoon Yutu Slams into Philippines, Traveling Path of Super Storm Mangkhut
Oct 30 2018 // Typhoon Yutu slammed into northern Philippines on Tuesday and is traveling a path similar to last month’s super storm Mangkhut that killed at least 82 people and damaged about $500 million of farm output in the...
Update: Lion Air Jet Plunged at 350 Miles Per Hour Before Crash, Data Show
Oct 30 2018 // More than a day after a brand-new Boeing Co. 737 Max jet flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea, the search for the plane failed to yield much as investigators continued the grim task of uncovering...
Boeing 737 Max, Operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air, Crashes with 189 on Board
Oct 29 2018 // A Boeing Co. 737 Max jet, operated by Indonesia’s Lion Air, crashed in the Java Sea with 189 people on board, making it the model’s first accident and potentially the worst commercial aviation disaster in three...
Cathay Pacific Cyber Attack Is World’s Biggest Airline Data Breach
Oct 26 2018 // Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. said a hacker accessed personal information of 9.4 million customers, becoming the target of the world’s biggest airline data breach. The airline’s shares sank the most in almost two...
Time to Upgrade Airline Black Boxes, Says Safety Board
Oct 19 2018 // The ubiquitous black boxes on airliners — designed to capture the sometimes gruesome words and sounds leading up to crashes — need an upgrade, U.S. accident investigators say. In too many cases, the current two...
Alaska Pilot Awarded $500K in Airplane Safety Whistleblower Case
Oct 18 2018 // A federal judge has sided with an Anchorage, Alaska pilot who claimed a Homer-based air carrier fired him for reporting safety problems. Brian Bell had reported that Bald Mountain Air Service falsified safety records and...
Single Pilot Operations for Air Cargo a Test for Autonomous Flying
Oct 11 2018 // Aerospace and innovation have gone hand-in-hand since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Airplanes were once simple metal tubes powered by propellers. Long-haul flying meant four engines and at least three pilots on...
Senate Approves Bill on Commercial Drones, Airline Passengers, Disaster Relief
Oct 4 2018 // Airline passengers can no longer be removed from flights under legislation that passed the Senate on Wednesday, while the government will write new rules to allow commercial drones to deliver packages and get new authority...
Airport Operators Take Action Against Rising Seas, Powerful Storms as Climate Changes
Oct 1 2018 // Global airport operators, faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms as the climate changes, are starting to invest in measures including higher runways, seawalls and better drainage systems to future-proof...
Typhoon Trami Hammers Japan; Flights and Trains Canceled in Tokyo
Sep 30 2018 // Typhoon Trami is bringing Tokyo to a halt. East Japan Railway Co. suspended all train service in the Japanese capital on Sunday in preparation for the storm, which is hammering the southwest of the country. Flights were...
Drone Hobbyists May Soon Lose Their Freedom from Regulation
Sep 28 2018 // The Wild West days of unregulated recreational drones may be nearing an end. A bill close to passage in Congress would repeal the current exemption for hobbyists from regulations and for the first time require them to take...
U.S. Safety Agency Targets Pilot Fatigue with Technology, Stricter Work Rules
Sep 26 2018 // U.S. accident investigators probing a San Francisco incident last year in which a jetliner was mere feet from landing on top of at least one other plane are poised to recommend new automated safety warnings and better...
Singapore’s Changi Airport Tests Terminal Run by Robots, Not Humans
Sep 25 2018 // Imagine landing at a major airport and the only human official you meet on your way through the terminal is a customs officer. Singapore’s Changi Airport, voted the world’s best for the past six years by...
State Farm Gets OK to Deploy Drones to Inspect Florence Damage
Sep 21 2018 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently granted a waiver to State Farm to allow the insurer the ability to inspect damage caused by Hurricane Florence. The approval, received just last week, allows State Farm to...
Pilots Forget to Pressurize Cabin of Jet Airways India Flight, Injuring Some Passengers
Sep 21 2018 // Pilots operating a Jet Airways India Ltd. flight on Thursday forgot to turn on a switch that maintains optimal pressure in the cabin during ascent, causing injuries to some aboard. About 30 of the 166 passengers aboard the...
