An air traffic control facility that guides planes at Newark Liberty International Airport suffered a brief radar outage on Friday morning, the latest technological disruption at one of the nation’s busiest airports. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the outage, which affected communications and radar displays at the facility in Philadelphia, occurred just before 4…
A risky flying manoeuvre, a series of miscommunications, and ignoring her co-pilot’s warnings led to the Black Hawk helicopter crashing into an American Airlines flight over the Potomac River in the US – resulting in the deaths of 67 people aboard, including all three members of the chopper – according to a report by The…
As they flew south along the Potomac River on the gusty night of Jan. 29, the crew aboard an Army Black Hawk helicopter attempted to execute a common aviation practice. It would play a role in ending their lives. Shortly after the Black Hawk passed over Washington’s most famous array of cherry trees, an air…
The pilots of Jeju Air Flight 2216 signaled three different plans for landing the stricken plane in the minutes before it crashed and killed 179 people in December, according to a partial transcript of their communication with air traffic controllers obtained by The New York Times. The transcript shows that the pilots reported a bird…
Airlines, airports and air traffic controllers prepare for chaos. But that doesn’t make responding to it any less complicated. The global aviation system is deeply interconnected and responding to a disruption — especially one as severe as a power outage at a global airport hub — is a delicate balancing act. For airlines, moving even…
NEW DELHI: Union aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu will Thursday launch Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) “electronic personnel license (EPL) for pilots, making India the second country in the world to implement EPL for flight crew, according to the regulator. Digitising pilot licences will do away with the need of getting the same endorsed/renewed…
The family of one of the 67 victims of a plane crash last month near Washington filed two legal claims against the federal government on Tuesday, seeking compensation and signifying the beginning of what is expected to be a long and complex legal fight. The claims, which appear to be the first against the U.S….
NEW DELHI: In yet another military crash, a frontline twin-seater Mirage-2000 fighter jet of the IAF went down at Shivpuri near Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday afternoon. The two pilots managed to eject safely.The Mirage-2000, which had taken off from the Gwalior airbase, developed “a system technical malfunction” and then crashed around 2.40 pm….
Valérie André was 10 years old in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she greeted the hero aviator Maryse Hilsz at the Strasbourg airfield in France. She was already committed to becoming a doctor, an ambitious career goal for a young lady at the time. But she was so warmly received when she presented…
The Federal Aviation Administration was using a backup system to send real-time safety alerts to pilots late Saturday because its primary one was “experiencing a temporary outage,” the Transportation Department said. “The primary NOTAM system is experiencing a temporary outage, but there is currently no impact to the National Airspace System because a backup system…