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...
Drone Travel Chaos at Gatwick Airport Cost EasyJet Nearly $20 Million January 22, 2019 By Alistair Smout EasyJet lost 15 million pounds ($19 million) during 36 hours of travel chaos sparked by drones flying into London’s Gatwick...
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...
London’s Heathrow Briefly Halts Flights After Drone Sighting January 8, 2019 By Benjamin Katz and Irene García Pérez The Heathrow airport was partially shut for more than an hour after drone sightings near runways raised safety concerns, the...
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...
London’s Gatwick Airport Reopens After Drones Cause 36 Hours of Travel Chaos December 21, 2018 By Toby Melville London’s Gatwick Airport reopened on Friday after a saboteur wrought 36 hours of travel chaos for over a hundred thousand...
London’s Gatwick Airport Suspends Flights on Multiple Drone Sightings December 20, 2018 By Christopher Jasper , Justin Bachman and Kyunghee Park London’s Gatwick airport is closed to aircraft following multiple sightings of illegal drones, disrupting flights for as many as 115,000...
Bureaucratic Disputes, Funding Problems Hinder Search for 2nd Lion Air Black Box December 11, 2018 By Cindy Silviana Bureaucratic wrangling and funding problems have hampered the search for the cockpit voice recorder of a crashed Lion Air jet,...
Boeing Defends 737 MAX Planes as Safe Amid Calls for More Pilot Training December 7, 2018 By Cindy Silviana and Eric M. Johnson Aviation authorities in Indonesia and India on Thursday pushed for more simulator training for Boeing Co 737 MAX pilots following...