New York (CNN Business)It's a legend immortalized in the 1964 flick "Fate is the Hunter": An airline pilot is enjoying a coffee and accidentally spills the piping-hot liquid on the cockpit's crucial electronic components. It's not just Hollywood, however. Years of public documents show that spills can have terrifying — if non-fatal — ...

A Serene Air Airbus A330-200, registration AP-BNE performing flight ER-504 from Karachi to Islamabad (Pakistan), had departed Karachi's runway 25L and was enroute at FL330 about 180nm northnortheast of Karachi when the crew needed to shut the left hand engine (CF6) down and returned to Karachi. The aircraft drifted down to FL160 and landed safely on runway...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Monday introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) aircraft certification process in the wake of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes. The Boeing 737 MAX has been grounded since March 2019 after two crashes in fi...

A JAL Japan Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration JA341J performing flight JL-431 from Tokyo Haneda to Matsuyama (Japan) with 65 people on board, was climbing through FL220 when the crew stopped the climb and descended to FL160 for about 2 minutes due to problems with the cabin pressure, then descended further to 5000 feet. The aircraft returned to Haned...

An Anadolujet Boeing 737-800 on behalf of Turkish Airlines, registration TC-JZO performing flight TK-7091 from Kars to Ankara (Turkey), was climbing out of one of Kars' runways 24 when the crew levelled off at about 12,000 feet due to the left hand engine (CFM56) failing with a large boom and stre...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin for owners and operators of Boeing's Dreamliner on Thursday. The bulletin applies to the three Dreamliner models, the 787-8, 787-9, and 787-10. In their bulletin, the FAA flags the possibility of the autopilot flight director system failing to capture the localize...

A new study presented at this year's Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) shows that the introduction of a new safety protocol has successfully enabled people with insulin-treated diabetes to work as commercial pilots, and could potentially allow individuals with the condition to perform other "safety-critical&qu...

NATA, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Safety Institute (TSI) has launched a new Air Transport Safety Manager program, bringing together industry safety experts to develop qualified and certified air transport safety managers. Open to all aviation service providers such as charter operators, MROs, FBOs, corporate flight dep...

  During the first day of the Global Connected Aircraft Summit's second "Cabin Chats" web series, cybersecurity experts from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) came together to discuss risk management and upcoming policy changes for stakeholders across the connected aircraft ecosys...

On December 10, 2019, a crew of Boeing 737-400 belonging to South African low-cost carrier Safair experienced an incident reminiscent of a Hollywood action movie, as sparks started flying and smoke filled the cockpit. The final report on the incident was published by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) on September 9, 2020. According ...