EASA, the FAA and IATA are increasingly using AI to process air transport incident reports in a bid to better detect safety trends—both successes and failures.
The Racer is currently in maintenance after its first 8 hr. of flight testing, during which it achieved speeds of 227 kt. in June after just seven flights.
Since 2018, only 48% of commercial air transport accidents have had a final report published, according to Gabriel Acosta, head of operational safety at IATA.
The EU has a robust system to ensure that aviators are following their equally robust set of rules—that system is laid out in the Ramp Inspection Program.
Florian Guillermet speaks with Aviation Week about EASA-FAA cooperation, spoofing and jamming threats, and ensuring that EASA can meet its expanded mandate.
EASA will start a public consultation on methodology for its planned Environmental Labeling Scheme, also known as the eco-label, the executive director tells Aviation Week.
“When it comes to aviation safety, the authorities have to speak with one voice,” says Florian Guillermet, the new executive director of EASA, in his first interview since taking on the role in April.
An MRO issue may explain the rupture of a Rolls-Royce XWB-97 fuel hose that led a Cathay Pacific Airbus A350-1000 crew to return to Hong Kong, EASA says.
With radio frequency interference now routine for commercial airlines, more is at stake than redundancy, a cornerstone of aviation safety built over decades.
The FAA’s sweeping changes to certification-related safety assessments address four long-standing NTSB recommendations that emerged from three accident probes.
Comac delivered Air China’s and China Southern Airlines’ first C919s in a combined ceremony, marking the airliner's expansion to all three state-owned carriers.
Leonardo Helicopters has begun ground runs of its Next-Generation Civil Tiltrotor Technology Demonstrator ahead of its first flight, planned before year-end,