Every time a commercial airplane crashes, news outlets detail the search for the "black box," the data recorder that often holds the best evidence of what happened to the plane. But how do they work? And why are they called "black boxes" when they are decidedly orange?
The cockpit voice recorder from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been found by search teams who were forced to salvage the device over several stages as it was damaged, the Egyptian investigation committee said on Thursday.
Arik Air, Nigeria's leading carrier has received a royal endorsement from the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II.
Any pilots looking for a job are in luck because an airline that recently opened a hub in Philadelphia is looking to fill at least 200 new positions by the end of the year.
Before he was appointed Managing Director of Liberia Airport Authority, LAA, Wil Bako Freeman was the Director, Operations and Regional Integration and later Director, Corporate Services at the West African Monetary Institute, WAMI, a specialized agency of ECOWAS, working towards a common currency and Central Bank for West Africa. He had also served as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Commerce in Liberia. He had also been a Central Banker with the United States Federal Reserve Bank of New York. With work experience in various countries in the world, he spoke to ABUBAKAR HASHIM of his mission, vision and challenges at the Airport in Monrovia.
Lufthansa says it will deploy an A340-300 between Frankfurt and Nairobi four times a week beginning September this year, up from the current three weekly flights.
India has made it easier for the country's airlines to fly abroad as part of the first set of comprehensive rules governing civil aviation which are designed to boost air travel and economic growth.
The DA said on Monday it would request the Competition Commission to launch a full-scale investigation into alleged collusion between South African Airways (SAA) and its low-cost subsidiary Mango Airlines.
The Egyptian government says it has found wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.
GoAir recently inducted a 20th aircraft into its fleet, thereby fulfiling the 5/20 criteria to fly international routes.
Two people are dead and two others injured after a single engine plane crashed near the Collegedale Municipal Airport early Saturday afternoon.
A British Airways flight declared an emergency shortly after taking off from Heathrow this morning.
Rayani Air, Malaysia’s first Islamic-compliant airline, has been shut down, regulators said Monday, months after it was suspended from flying for breaching aviation regulations.
Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest airport for international travel, closed its airspace for 69 minutes due to unauthorized drone activity on Saturday, causing 22 flights to be diverted, aviation authorities said.
A holidaymaker was escorted off a Ryanair plane by police after cabin crew caught him smoking in the toilet mid-flight.
