aviation safety

A United Airlines flight bound for Denver was forced to return to Bradley International Airport on Thursday morning after experiencing an in-flight incident.

The FAA slammed Boeing, demanding a 90-day plan to address “systemic quality-control issues” after a mid-air scare on a new 737 MAX 9.

Thirty years ago, a small business jet carrying In-N-Out executives crashed outside of John Wayne Airport after encountering wake turbulence from a Boeing 757.

Age is just a number, as they say, and Honeywell’s 757-200 is no exception to this rule. The aircraft — registered as N757HW — tests some of the latest and greatest aviation technologies, including safety systems, powerplants and products targeted more towards the airline passenger. N757HW was the fifth 757 off Boeing’s Renton, Wash. assembly […]

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a safety bulletin following “an alarming trend in the number of reports of unreliable speed and altitude indications during the first flights following the aircraft leaving storage,” as the agency states. EASA warned the airline operators and maintenance organizations against pitot tube blockage causing airspeed and altitude […]

On Oct. 29, Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 passengers and crew onboard. Just over a month earlier—on Sept. 28—Air Niugini flight 73 crashed in Micronesia, leaving one dead. On May 18, 112 perished as Cubana de Aviación flight 972 crashed soon after […]

Late last Thursday, the European Union (EU) announced the lifting of its ban on airlines in Indonesia, clearing the way for several airlines to announce more service as they see fit. In 2007, the EU imposed a ban on all Indonesian airlines, effectively prohibiting them from flying in their airspace. The ban was put in place […]

Russian regional carrier Saratov Airlines, the airline involved in February’s fatal accident outside Moscow which resulted in the deaths of 71 people, has been ordered to cease operations by the Russian Transport Ministry due to continued discrepancies in its flight operations. The accident occurred on Feb. 11 when Saratov Airlines flight 703, an Antonov An-148, […]

The disappearance of Malaysia Airline flight MH370 on March 8, 2014 is one of aviation history‘s greatest mysteries — and one Canadian expert Larry Vance believes to have solved it. The Boeing 777-200ER disappeared from radar while enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing without sending a distress message and has never been found. The aviation […]

The East Coast’s commercial aviation sector was hit with a heavy dose of bad luck early this week, featuring three back-to-back inflight mechanical incidents involving separate U.S. airlines. In every case, however, the rigid and persistent nature of commercial aviation safety in the United States prevailed, despite the death of one passenger on Southwest flight 1380. […]