Federal investigators are blaming air traffic controllers for two midair collisions last year that killed seven people, but there are technologies that can prevent the collisions that happen in the blink of an eye.
Arik Air on Wednesday announced reduction of flights due to the lingering scarcity of JET A1 (aviation fuel). The airline made the announcement in a statement by its Communications Manager, Ola Adebanji, in Lagos.
Experts investigating the missing Flight MH370 are exploring a new theory - that the pilot may have heroically steered the plane 'on fire' away from crashing into heavily populated areas.
Pilots in India are preparing for a head-on collision with the aviation safety regulator in the wake of an upcoming policy which threatens to ground aviators for feigning illness.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, a hotelier and former airline executive, has said plenty about immigrants, borders, and free trade. But he hasn’t said much about the multibillion-dollar aviation industry. This huge segment of the American economy has some priorities and complaints that have gone essentially nowhere during the Obama administration, due in part to political gridlock.
A potential plane crash in Nigeria was averted on Friday as an Arik Air aircraft lost one of its two engines mid-air with over 100 passengers on board.
Fueled by a rising middle class and a surge in low-cost airlines, the Asia-Pacific region is the fastest-growing aviation market in the world, a trend that is already taxing the region's infrastructure and that IATA projects will continue over the next two decades.
Lufthansa (LH, Frankfurt Int'l) has ended formal, scheduled B737 operations as of Saturday, October 29. ch-aviation research indicates that of the German carrier's fleet of five remaining B737-300s, D-ABEF (msn 25217) was the last arrive back at Frankfurt Int'l following a flight from Nuremberg.
A cargo plane carrying four crew members went missing Monday during a short flight in mountainous eastern Indonesia, authorities said, the latest blow to the country's beleaguered aviation sector.
An American Airlines jetliner that caught fire while preparing for takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare airport late Friday sustained an uncontained engine failure, the second time the rare malfunction has occurred on a U.S. airliner in recent weeks, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
The aviation industry is facing a global pilot shortage - and SA's well-trained and highly experienced captains make for soft targets to be lured abroad.