Flight Safety

What appears to have been a potential, maybe incipient runway incursion at LAX was caught on video by Airline Videos, a YouTube channel that livestreams movements at the airport. At about 4:20 p.m. on Dec. 27 a Delta Air Lines A321 was on the roll on Runway 24 heading for Atlanta. As it accelerated, a […]

There were no serious injuries when a PAL Airlines Dash-8 suffered a left main gear collapse while landing at Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia, late Saturday. The cause of the gear collapse wasn’t immediately known. The aircraft was operating as Air Canada 2259 from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. There were 73 passengers […]

Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona is the latest U.S. National Park to prohibit commercial air tours as part of its new Air Tour Management Plan (ATMP). The plan, a collaborative effort between the National Park Service (NPS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), prohibits commercial air tours over the park and within a […]

Investigators found multiple human errors to be the primary cause of the fatal collision between a Japan Airlines jet and a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport earlier this year. In a preliminary report released Wednesday, the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) identified crew confusion as the primary cause of the incident, […]

A new bill introduced in Congress aims to digitalize pilot certificates—eliminating the need for pilots to carry physical copies of their medical and airman certificates. Congressman Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., introduced the Pilot Certificate Accessibility Act earlier this month, aiming to improve efficiency by allowing pilots to store these documents on electronic devices or cloud platforms. […]

Almost half the people aboard an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 survived when the plane crashed on what appears to be the infield or an area outside of an airport in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Christmas Day. The aircraft departed from Baku and was initially en route to Grozny in Russia but diverted to Aktau, Kazakhstan. Remarkable […]

Malaysia has announced it will resume the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. The country is planning a “no find, no fee” contract with Texas robotics company Ocean Infinity to use its underwater search equipment in an undisclosed area of the […]

A consortium of 30 aviation groups representing the broad spectrum of the industry have written President-elect Donald Trump asking him to consider funding changes to the FAA that will give the agency the resources it needs to modernize. Specifically, the group is urging use of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund to “upgrade and modernize […]

Brazilian authorities say a prominent businessman and nine members of his family were killed when the Piper PA-42-1000 Cheyenne 400LS crashed shortly after takeoff from Canela Airport in Gramado in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul on Sunday. Seventeen people on the ground were injured. Luiz Claudio Galeazzi was flying the twin with […]

Influential libertarian think tank the Reason Foundation has written an open letter to the incoming leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency to make air traffic control a “user-funded utility.” The foundation, which is credited with coining the term “privatization,” says most of the rest of the world (83 countries) has already distanced ATC from […]