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News, Flight Training, Safety Review
The U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its aviation subcommittee want a federal investigation of cockpit automation and international pilot training standards in the wake of the…
Despite a year-to-year increase in accidents, the commercial airline industry showed continuing long-term safety improvements in 2018, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says. In safety performance data made public…
News, Accident/Incident Investigation, Safety Review
Some 708 aviation occurrences were reported in 2017 to the U.K. Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which deployed investigators to 38 accident sites, including the sites of 16 fatal accidents,…
Downward trends persisted in commercial aviation accidents in 2017, with an all-accident rate of 1.08 per million flights and a “fatality risk” of 0.09, meaning that a passenger would have…
Ten fatal airliner accidents occurred in 2017, none of them involving passenger jets, according to data compiled by the Aviation Safety Network (ASN), an independent organization affiliated with Flight Safety…
U.S. air carriers were involved in 30 accidents — none of them fatal — in 2015, down from 32 accidents the previous year, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)…
The international commercial air transport industry suffered 23 accidents, of which three were fatal, during the first six months of 2017, according to statistics released today by the International Air…
. The U.S. aviation community has made steady progress in improving safety and reducing the number of aircraft accidents, partially because of its adoption of numerous safety recommendations from the National…
News, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Safety Review
The first six months of 2017 saw significantly fewer incident than predicted earlier in the year.
