by ALASTAIR JAMIESON One plane was slammed into a mountain by an employee with a history of depression, another was found to have been brought down by pilots who didn't perform as they were trained. While 2015 is on course to ...

    The U.S. and European aviation industries are at odds over the best way to guard against the increasing threat of potential cyberattacks, The Wall Street Journal reports.   At issue is the best approach to beef up security stan...

 10 December, 2015 Stephen Trimble, Washington DC Most of the Boeing 787s delivered to date contain a software defect that, in at least five identified aircraft, have erroneously reported their location to controllers, prompting two air traffic management agencies to put the Dreamliner on a “blacklist” for certain services. &nb...

 07 December, 2015 BY: Stephen Trimble Washington DC The US Army has grounded about 1,100 helicopters for five days to refocus on safety procedures following a rash of fatal accidents in November. The “safety stand-down” from 3-7 December grounded aviation units at 11 bases in the continental USA operating a mix of Boeing AH-64 Apa...

 Newly manufactured aircraft must be trackable, even when severely damaged, and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) recordings will be extended to 25 hours under a new set of regulations adopted by the European Commission. The rules, which will be “gradually implemented” through European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) guidance, apply to Europea...

 It could take Southeast Asia, one of the fastest growing air travel markets, two decades to set up a regulatory body to oversee safety in an industry blighted by disasters in recent years, say national regulators and airline executives.   The need f...

At least three people reportedly were hurt.   A Southwest Airlines jet reportedly slid off the taxiway at Nashville International Airport in Tennessee Tuesday, injuring at least three people.   The plane, which Southwest ...

    A 'Parrot Bebop' drone, used to take images, flies during a demo in San Francisco. Is a drone a toy or a (tiny) airplane? To the Department of Transportation, the question is far from complicated. "Unmanned ...

 Airspace officials call it "concerning."   A Eurocontrol aviation expert points to aviation ...

 Eurocontrol study finds quarter of pilots fail to take correct action when alarms go off   Tegel Airport in Berlin. The Eurocontrol study examined data from 800 incidents in European airspace last year. By AN...