A Decade After MH370, Planes Still at Risk of Vanishing Off the Map February 23, 2024 By Angus Whitley and Danny Lee “Good Night. Malaysian Three Seven Zero.” Those six words were the last radio transmission from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines...
Plane-Crash Mysteries Prompt Renewed Calls for Cameras in Cockpits June 8, 2022 By Angus Whitley “We’re too low! We’re too low! We’re too low!” The Boeing Co. 737 co-pilot’s frenzied warnings on Sept. 28, 2018...
China Examines 2 Black Boxes of Crashed China Eastern Jet as Investigation Continues March 28, 2022 After finding two black boxes from a crashed China Eastern jet, recovery crews are looking for more airplane debris, nearby...
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...
Update: Massive Search Continues for Wreckage from Missing EgyptAir Flight May 19, 2016 By Andrea Rothman and Deena Kamel Yousef The disappearance of an EgyptAir jetliner carrying 66 people over the Mediterranean Sea triggered a massive search for evidence amid...
Real-Time Tracking to Be Required for Aircraft, After MH370 Disappearance March 8, 2016 By Allison Lampert The U.N.’s aviation agency on Monday announced new requirements for the real-time tracking of civilian aircraft in distress, following 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...