With U.S. Leadership Grounded, Global Regulators Worry About 737 Precedent September 5, 2019 By Tracy Rucinski The head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned on Tuesday that any discrepancy among global regulators over re-approving...
Recalled Apple MacBook Laptops Banned from Flights Due to Batteries August 14, 2019 By Mark Gurman and Alan Levin U.S. airline safety regulators banned select MacBook Pro laptops on flights after Apple Inc. recently said that some units had...
Cellphones Still a Flight Danger on Some Boeing Jets July 18, 2019 By Anita Sharpe U.S. government officials in 2014 revealed an alarming safety issue: Passenger mobile phones and other types of radio signals could...
U.S. Plans Global Summit on Boeing 737 Max Safety April 26, 2019 By Ryan Beene The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration next month will brief international aviation regulators on the agency’s work evaluating when the Boeing...
Relationship Between Boeing, FAA Safety Regulators Under Scrutiny March 25, 2019 By Peter Robison and Margaret Newkirk Soon after Lion Air Flight 610 plummeted into the Java Sea last October, killing all 189 people aboard, Boeing Co....
Boeing Defends 737 Safety as First U.S. Lawsuit Filed Over Lion Air Crash November 16, 2018 By Bob Van Voris Boeing Co. has been sued in what may be the first U.S. claim tied to the crash of Lion Air...
U.S. Safety Agency Targets Pilot Fatigue with Technology, Stricter Work Rules September 26, 2018 By Alan Levin U.S. accident investigators probing a San Francisco incident last year in which a jetliner was mere feet from landing on...
Probe Says FAA Allowed Unsafe Charter Planes to Fly June 15, 2018 By Alan Levin Government aviation inspectors allowed unsafe aircraft to operate in U.S. commercial flight operations, a whistleblower investigation has concluded. The Federal...
U.S., Europe Order Emergency Checks on 700 Engines Like One in Southwest Accident April 23, 2018 By David Shepardson and Tim Hepher U.S. and European airline regulators on Friday ordered emergency inspections within 20 days of nearly 700 aircraft engines similar to...
Fatal Crashes on Private Planes at Lowest in 50 Years November 22, 2017 By Alan Levin The rate of fatal crashes on privately owned aircraft in the U.S. dropped to the lowest level in 50 years...