Aviation Safety

The investigation into the emergency flight was launched after human remains were found in the C-17’s wheel well.

It happens with alarming frequency: You read a story in your local newspaper about someone pushing for the closure of the local airport. Perhaps it’s an election year, or locals accuse the airport of being solely a playground for the rich, a danger to public health, and/or an economic drain on the community.  There are […]

FLYING has obtained video of the incident that got this social media star in trouble with the FAA. What does it really show?

The safety review Monday comes after five Marines and a Navy pilot were killed in aircraft accidents last week.

Pilot Tom Dafoe was reportedly advised twice to lower his airplane’s nose because he looked slow.

A student pilot was killed and two Air Force flight instructors were injured when the two T-38C aircraft collided while landing in Texas last November.

The STOL community turns introspective following an accident at the MayDay STOL Drag event on Friday.

Flight data reportedly indicates that someone in the cockpit of a China Eastern Airlines flight intentionally crashed the Boeing 737-800 on March 21, killing all 132 people on board, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says the FAA is partially to blame for the 2019 fatal accident involving an air tour helicopter in Hawaii.  The NTSB suggests if the FAA had not delayed the installation of weather cameras in the region, the pilot might have been alerted to dangerous conditions and not continued the […]

Stack the deck in your favor with some simple planning, preflight briefing, and by using a four-part departure framework.