Safety, Ops & Regulation

Are the risks of medication worse than pilots hiding that they are depressed?

This Crosscheck column examines aircraft safety features and pilot training--and the link between them.

Canada’s Harbour Air Seaplanes has received C$1.6 million ($1.3 million) from the British Columbia government to support plans to electrify its fleet of aircraft.

Reports of people pointing lasers at aircraft as of mid-October had exceeded the total number of reports received last year, reaching the highest number of laser-strike incidents since 2016, according to the FAA.

Revealing insights from a Citation Jet Pilots safety committee study prompt training changes.

The Pentagon is hoping there are no schedule delays or overruns if defense industry employees do not get COVID-19 vaccines and leave their jobs as the deadline under President Joe Biden’s executive order approaches.

The pilot of a Cessna 210 Centurion that ditched off the Bahamas on Dec. 23, 2019 got an early Christmas present when a rescue helicopter began to

Declaring an emergency considerations...

Switzerland’s air navigation service provider Skyguide is seeing the country as a laboratory for European air traffic management (ATM), as a reorganization program and accompanying system change in the country are well underway.

The NTSB was analyzing data from flight recorders and looking into the maintenance history of a corporate McDonnell Douglas MD-87 involved in a runway excursion on Oct. 19.

In 1993, I was flying a peacekeeping team between Armenia and Azerbaijan in what was known as the “First Nagorno-Karabakh War.” This shuttle diplomacy

The Machinists union in Wichita is pushing back on a government mandate requiring employees of government contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as Textron Aviation and Spirit AeroSystems work to comply.

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