Corporate Pilots Often Neglect Required Safety Checks September 29, 2016 By Alan Levin Corporate pilots routinely take off without performing required safety checks, a study of thousands of flights by a trade group...
Mobile Apps Help Lower Fatal Private Plane Crashes August 12, 2016 By Alan Levin Fatalities in crashes of small private planes have fallen to the lowest levels in decades as industry and government work...
Amazon and UK Government Form Partnership to Test Drone Deliveries July 26, 2016 By Gwen Ackerman Amazon Inc. and the British government have announced a partnership to test the e-commerce giant’s aerial drone parcel delivery system...
Cockpit Voice Recorder Retrieved from Doomed EgyptAir Flight June 17, 2016 By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Aboulenein Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 on Thursday in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to...
Investigators Find Main Wreckage Sites of Crashed EgyptAir Flight 804 June 16, 2016 By Deena Kamel Yousef Investigators found the main wreckage sites of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed last month over the Mediterranean Sea with 66...
Update: Debris Found from Crashed EgyptAir Plane May 20, 2016 By Deena Kamel Yousef and Tarek El-Tablawy Egyptian authorities said they found wreckage and belongings from the missing EgyptAir plane that vanished en route from Paris to...
EgyptAir Plane, Flying from Paris to Cairo, Vanishes from Radar with 66 on Board May 19, 2016 By Deena Kamel Yousef An EgyptAir plane headed to Cairo from Paris with 66 people on board disappeared from radar in the early hours...
Automakers Told They Could Learn from Aviation Industry’s Safety Practices April 15, 2016 By David Shepardson The U.S. government is bringing together top airline and auto company executives to discuss aviation industry practices such as safety...
Germanwings Probe Urges Change for Pilots’ Medical Privacy, License-Loss Cover March 14, 2016 By Ania Nussbaum and Andrea Rothman Pilots would lose privacy protection for health records and airlines would need insurance when the employees lose their license under...
U.K. Eyes Requiring Drones to Fit Anti-Collision Technology for Aviation Safety March 10, 2016 By Eddie Buckle Britain is considering whether civilian drones will have to be fitted with technology intended to prevent collisions with airplanes after...