Safety, Ops & Regulation

Three crewmembers and 18 passengers evacuated safely after their McDonnell Douglas MD-87 left the runway and caught on fire Oct. 19 while attempting to take off from Houston Executive Airport in Brookshire, Texas.

GE Digital has signed a memo of understanding with Flapz to provide personalized data about each flight under a program called Safety Insight for Business Jets.

The investigation of the Cessna 208 Caravan collision and ditching in Belize.

Cessna 208 Caravan collision and ditching in Belize.

A Flight Safety Foundation study says pilots execute go-arounds only 3% of the time when an approach exceeds stable approach criteria.

To understand the new streamlined Letters of Authorization, one needs to understand how bad the old monthslong process was.

Embraer Executive Jets will combine increased use of sustainable aviation fuels with new technologies to meet its sustainability goals.

A Small Operator Symposium speaker had a common sense—but jarring—demand: “We need to stop crashing aircraft.”

Pilots continue to repeat the same mistakes, believing their flying savvy will allow them to escape bad situations

A day after announcing a vaccinated travel lane (VTL) with South Korea, the Singapore government revealed eight more partner countries in Europe and North America.

NetJets has paused sales of its jet cards, fractional shares and leases of its Embraer Phenom jets, Textron Aviation Citation XLS and Citation Latitude aircraft, an expansion of an earlier temporary halt of sales because of unprecedented demand for the products.

Europe will start requiring SAF in 2025, gradually ramping up the required percentage. U.S. considers SAF tax credits.

Our study of aircraft lightning strikes determined that engines were flamed out in a total of 5% of the incidents involving turbojets, and in 8% of

Speaking at the AviationWeek Asia Aerospace Leadership Forum, the Executive Vice President of Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) said the country has “tremendous interest” in eVTOL development.

Some jurisdictions are over-reacting when civil aircraft lose communications with air traffic control (ATC), holding operators accountable for costs associated with military intervention and creating a culture of blame, rather than one that fosters learning lessons and improving protocols, the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) warned.

The CAA-led eVTOL Safety Leadership Group includes potential operators, manufacturers, rotorcraft experts and aviation companies which have been brought together to foster understanding of the aviation safety implications of advanced air mobility.

When two accidents are very similar but have two different conclusions, why is weather the cause for only one?

The FAA needs to use additional noise metrics to assess the impact of implementing performance-based navigation (PBN) procedures at airports to avoid legal challenges and delays, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has recommended.

The FAA is set to begin widespread deployment of software that integrates data from several existing systems and calculates optimal pushback times to minimize delays between the gate and departure.

Pilots should also consider engine spool-up time and flight director guidance.

Despite top-down recommendations from the European Council, EU member states are managing their own travel rules in different ways which has created confusion.

Compliance with manufacturer's service bulletins may or may not be mandatory, but should never be ignored.

Environmental groups have renewed their call for the U.S. government to set a tougher rule for aircraft greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions than the CO2 certification standard agreed by ICAO.

Reporting, investigating, communicating and training—and SMS systems for small operators.

The EBS system uses a 100-kW electric motor connected to the main gearbox which could provide up to 30 sec. of additional power in the event of an engine failure, allowing the pilot to make a safe auto-rotation landing.