aircraft safety

Philadelphia International Airport recently added an Engineered Material Arresting System to Runway 8-26 that can slow and stop an airplane.

Passengers who brought a $1 billion lawsuit against Boeing and Alaska over a door plug blowout on a flight in 2024 have settled with the companies out of court.

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a safety alert to airlines Monday warning certain Boeing 737 rudders could become jammed or restricted.

A new safety rating by the Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre, or Jacdec, crowned Emirates Airlines as the world’s safest airline. In a study published in aviation magazine Aero International, Emirates scored 93.61 percent on the Jacdec risk index, ahead of Norwegian Air Shuttle (93.26 percent) and the United Kingdom’s Virgin Atlantic Airways (92.87 […]

Saturday marks seven years since Qantas flight 32 experienced an in air emergency over Indonesia. The incident was the first major one for the Airbus A380, which at the time, was a two year old aircraft. Although the flight landed safely with no injuries to the 469 passengers and crew on board, the incident had […]

Since Tuesday’s accident  at McCarran International in Las Vegas the 777-200 has been involved in fourteen prior aviation accidents and incidents since its first flight back in 1994. As of today, over 1200 Boeing 777 aircraft are in active service, flying for more than 50 airlines. Out of the fourteen occurrences, complete hull-loss accounts for six of […]