Safety

13.07.2010 2:00

Global airline safety still failing to improve

Figures for first half 2010 lowest for decade, but improvement due to fewer accidents to non-passenger flights [Read more]

13.07.2010 2:00

Comment: New birds aplenty...but no pigs

Air travel is safer than ever, but a levelling off in the long-term decline of accident and fatality rates tells us it's time for ideas about safety management within - and between - airlines [Read more]

10.07.2010 2:00

FAA to issue 757 cockpit window rule

US regulators plan to issue an airworthiness directive on 13 July designed to prevent cockpit fires in Boeing 757/767/777 aircraft triggered by improper... [Read more]

08.07.2010 2:00

A350 cockpit offers unprecedented suite of safety tools

When it enters service in 2013 the Airbus A350's flight management system will contain safety tools that will reduce the risk of the most frequent accident... [Read more]

08.07.2010 2:00

IATA remains neutral on pilot retirement age

The International Air Transport Association has responded to a request for clarification of its position on pilot age limits - by stating that it has no... [Read more]

08.07.2010 2:00

FAA promotes upset recovery aid

The US FAA is asking airline, air cargo, air taxi and fractional flight departments to incorporate upset recovery aids developed by government and industry... [Read more]

07.07.2010 2:00

This Week briefing

Investigators have determined a Qantas Airbus A330's weather radar had been degraded before the jet encountered severe turbulence approaching the northern coast of Malaysia in 2009 [Read more]

07.07.2010 2:00

Comment: The NTSB gears up to fight killer fatigue

In late January 2006 we headlined this column Dead tired. In it we criticised the US Federal Aviation Administration for its apathy over the issue of basing proposed new flight-time limitations on science. We would still criticise them today for caving in to the airline lobby on that front - yet again. [Read more]