Bipartisan Bill Would Require Secondary Cockpit Door on All Existing Airplanes February 11, 2019 By Tracy Rucinski U.S. lawmakers are pushing for stronger aviation security with a bipartisan bill that would require passenger airlines to install secondary...
Lion Air Plane’s Cockpit Voice Recorder Recovered in Java Sea January 14, 2019 By Tassia Sipahutar, Kyunghee Park and Eko Listiyorini Indonesia found the cockpit voice recorder from the Lion Air plane that crashed in October, giving investigators a real chance...
Lion Air Ends Hunt for 2nd Black Box, but Indonesia Plans to Resume Search January 3, 2019 By Cindy Silviana and Fanny Potkin Lion Air has ended its search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from its Boeing 737 MAX jet that crashed...
Deaths on Passenger Jet Aircraft Rise Across Globe in 2018 January 2, 2019 By David Shepardson The fatality rate on passenger jet aircraft worldwide jumped in 2018 after airlines recorded zero accident deaths on passenger jets...
Single Pilot Operations for Air Cargo a Test for Autonomous Flying October 11, 2018 By Justin Bachman Aerospace and innovation have gone hand-in-hand since the days of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Airplanes were once simple metal tubes...
8 Passengers Sue Southwest Airlines, Manufacturers Over Engine Blowout June 22, 2018 By Alana Wise Eight passengers have sued Southwest Airlines Co. over a catastrophic engine blowout in April that killed a passenger and injured...
Airlines Urged to Use Predictive Models, Data Sharing to Keep Skies Safe June 6, 2018 By Victoria Bryan and Jamie Freed Global airlines, coming off a record-low accident rate in 2017, need to guard against complacency over safety as heavy growth...
Southwest Air Jet Engine That Failed Was Inspected 7 Times May 4, 2018 By Alan Levin The fan blade that failed on a Southwest Airlines Co. plane last month, killing a passenger, had been inspected seven...
Southwest Sends $5K to Each Passenger on Engine Failure Flight April 22, 2018 By David Shepardson Southwest Airlines Co. confirmed Friday it has sent $5,000 checks to passengers aboard a flight that made an emergency landing...
Traumatic Stress Claims Expected from Southwest Airlines Engine Failure April 19, 2018 By Christopher Yasiejko Being on an airplane more than six miles in the air when an engine blows up and sends shrapnel through...