The National Transportation Safety Board’s final report has been released. The finding, as expected, is pilot error. It is the “why” that will transform the industry.

Political Correctness (PC) almost killed the passengers on Delta Flight 253.

Pitot systems are a critical flight instrument system that measure indicated airspeed of an aircraft.  Here is the problem:

I’ve had endless questions on Northwest’s lost communication and over flight of Minneapolis.

Delta’s Flight #60 from Rio was cleared to land on runway 27R at approximately 06:00 October 20. The 767 inadvertently landed on a parallel taxiway. It is just pure luck it wasn’t a disaster.

Who is lobbying Congress to water down the training and experience requirements for Airline Pilots?

I have read some “rumored” proposed rule changes from the FAA committee, purported to be put together for raising safety standards. One in particular stuck out; allowing pilots to fly 9 hours a day instead of the current 8.

The FAA has directed US Airlines to replace the Thales pitot tube systems with Goodrich units by January. A Federal Register notice is due for release today. Their European counter part the EASA already had recommended the change. These changes are due to the accident of Air France 447 in which [...]

Here we go again; another schedule and another outsourcing plant has to bought for the Boeing 787 program. I’m sounding like a broken record so I’ll let others have a word; This from Design News: