Malaysian Plane Tragedy Increases Pressure for Plane Tracking after MH370 April 6, 2014 By Andrea Shalal and Tim Hepher Four weeks into the hunt for MH370, pressure is building for better ways of tracking aircraft as regulators wrestle with...
Hunt for Missing Flight MH370 ‘Bedeviled by Regional Rivalries’ March 31, 2014 By Peter Apps and Tim Hepher The search for flight MH370, the Malaysian jetliner that vanished over the South China Sea on March 8, has involved...
Malaysia Jet Search Highlights Doubts over Air Traffic Radar March 24, 2014 By Tim Hepher, Andrea Shalal and Brenda Goh The ease with which a big jetliner melted into the ether after vanishing from Malaysian radar illustrates an uncomfortable paradox...
777 Mystery Sharpens Hunt for ‘Black-box’ Alternatives: Aviation Expert March 14, 2014 By Tim Hepher The search for the missing Malaysian jet could speed development of new ways of locating wreckage, but such technology is...
Dreamliner Could Affect Future of Airline Safety Self-Regulation March 4, 2013 By Alwyn Scott, Peter Henderson and Tim Hepher Eight years ago, U.S. regulators substantially increased their dependence on the aircraft industry to help keep flying safe. The U.S....
Airbus’ Presentation Warned Airlines of Lithium Battery Risks a Year Ago January 29, 2013 By Deepa Seetharaman and Tim Hepher Airbus warned the airline industry of risks related to lithium batteries almost a year before two safety incidents grounded 787...
Equipment Failure, Training, Inspection Flaws at Fault for Rio-Paris Crash July 6, 2012 By Alexandria Sage and Tim Hepher Pilot error, defective sensors, inadequate training and insufficient oversight combined to send an Air France passenger plane plunging into the...
Rio-Paris Crash Probe Finds Air France Pilots Ignored Warnings July 29, 2011 By Tim Hepher French investigators said on Friday that the crew of Air France’s Rio-Paris flight which crashed into the Atlantic two years...
Air France Crash Investigation Sparks Pilot Mystery May 31, 2011 By Tim Hepher and Gerard Bon A French airliner plunged out of control for four minutes before crashing into the Atlantic in 2009, investigators said, in...
Tensions between Air France, Airbus Erupt in Crash Investigation May 19, 2011 By Tim Hepher and Cyril Altmeyer A row has erupted between Air France and Airbus as pressure grows to explain the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash using...