Commercial Airplane Crash Deaths Drop by More than 50% in 2019: Aviation Consultant January 2, 2020 By David Shepardson The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes fell by more than 50% in 2019 despite a high-profile...
Plane Operated by Bek Air Crashes in Kazakhstan, Killing 12, Injuring Dozens December 27, 2019 By Pavel Mikheyev A passenger plane carrying nearly 100 people crashed near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday after take off,...
U.S. Law Firms ‘Hounded’ Relatives of Ethiopian Airlines’ Crash Victims December 23, 2019 By Katharine Houreld Days after the March 10 crash of a Kenya-bound Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing jet that killed all 157 people on board,...
Boeing 737 Max’s Design, Pilot and Regulatory Errors Caused Lion Air Crash October 28, 2019 By Harry Suhartono, Fathiya Dahrul and Alan Levin Indonesian investigators found sweeping problems and missteps in connection with last year’s fatal Lion Air crash, including design flaws in...
Russian Aeroflot Plane Hit by Lightning Before It Crashed, Killing 41: Investigators June 17, 2019 By Andrew Osborn and Polina Ivanova Lightning struck a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft knocking out its auto pilot system shortly before it crash landed in...
Russia’s Aeroflot Cuts Superjet Flights After Fatal Crash in May June 4, 2019 By Andrew Osborn and Gleb Stolyarov Russian airline Aeroflot has scaled back the number of Sukhoi Superjet 100 flights it operates after one of its planes...
Aeroflot Plane Makes Fiery Emergency Landing at Moscow Airport, Killing 41 People May 6, 2019 By Natasha Doff and Anurag Kotoky An Aeroflot PJSC plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41...
Boeing Aims to Move Lion Air Crash Lawsuit from Chicago HQ to Indonesia May 1, 2019 By Janan Hanna Faced with lawsuits over a plane crash half a world away, Boeing Co. is arguing it shouldn’t have to defend...
Insight: Problems on Doomed Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Started Seconds After Takeoff April 8, 2019 By Tim Hepher, Eric M. Johnson and Jamie Freed Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation. A key sensor...
Ethiopian Airlines’ Pilots Followed Proper Boeing Procedures: 1st Official Crash Report April 4, 2019 By Jason Neely Ethiopian investigators urged Boeing to review its flight control technology and said pilots of state carrier Ethiopian Airlines had carried...