Reports Show Insurers Lag Behind in Adopting Technology February 17, 2015 By Carolyn Cohn At a time when the financial sector is racing to embrace digital technology to boost sales and drive profits, the...
Pilots Disabled Critical Computers Just Before AirAsia Crash January 30, 2015 By Alan Levin, Herdaru Purnomo and Kyunghee Park The pilots of AirAsia Bhd. Flight 8501 cut power to a critical computer system that normally prevents planes from going...
How AirAsia Investigators Will Use Black Box to Crack Crash Mystery January 14, 2015 By Alan Levin, David Fickling and Rieka Rahadiana Listening to a recording of ValuJet Flight 592’s last moments, investigator J.F. Joseph kept hearing sounds the pilots hadn’t talked...
France Sends Expert Search Team to Air Asia Jet Crash Scene January 2, 2015 France’s BEA crash investigation agency said a specialist black box search team and equipment arrived on Friday at the search...
Adverse Weather Hinders Efforts to Recover AirAsia Flight Data Recorders December 31, 2014 By Fathiya Dahrul, Rieka Rahadiana and Yudith Ho Indonesian authorities began deploying divers to find debris from the crashed AirAsia Bhd. jetliner as a day of adverse weather...
Malaysian Plane Tragedy Increases Pressure for Plane Tracking after MH370 April 6, 2014 By Andrea Shalal and Tim Hepher Four weeks into the hunt for MH370, pressure is building for better ways of tracking aircraft as regulators wrestle with...
U.S. Transportation Department Proposes Black Boxes in All Cars December 10, 2012 By Jim Wolf Devices that record crash-related data would be required in all new cars and light trucks under a U.S. Department of...
Tensions between Air France, Airbus Erupt in Crash Investigation May 19, 2011 By Tim Hepher and Cyril Altmeyer A row has erupted between Air France and Airbus as pressure grows to explain the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash using...