MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Airlines are set to begin testing a tracking system that would ping flights every 15 minutes, a technology that could have helped locate two flights last year that went missing in hard-to-track regions of the world, the head of an international trade group said Thursday.   Tony Tyler, CEO of the International Air Tra...

  Date: 03-JUN-2015 Time: 13:23 JST Type: Boeing 737-881(WL) Owner/operator: All Nippon Airways ANA Registration: ...

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday reassigned the leader of the Transportation Security Administration and directed the agency to revise airport security procedures, retrain officers and retest screening equipment in airports across the country. The TSA's acting administrator, Melvin Carraway, is bein...

    So, what is a "Safety Culture"?   While a number of definitions exist, one of the most common definitions is "The product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behavior that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organization's health and...

If you missed the NTSB's safety alerts this past month, three were targeted at general aviation pilots and one at GA mechanics. The three aimed at pilots involve flying in mountainous terrain; transition training when flying different aircraft or aircraft with different flying characteristics or avionics; and the importance of performing detailed preflight...

  In March 2015, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) proposed a risk-based regulatory approach for the operation of UAS in Europe. In its "Concept of Operations," EASA proposes three operational categories with increasing associated risk and regulatory requirements-Open, Specific, and Certification. EASA's risk-based appr...

U.S. safety officials on Wednesday reminded pilots to look out for other planes and make their own aircraft known during flights, saying air collisions can occur if pilots are distracted by cell phones, tablets or other wireless devices. After four small-plane collisions that caused eight deaths, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued...

  Singapore Airlines has an excellent safety record.   Hong Kong (CNN)A Singapore Airlines Airbus A330-300 with more than 180 passengers on board temporarily lost power to both of its engines as it passed through a storm, the airline has said. Flight SQ836 was en route to Shanghai from Singapore on Saturday when it "encou...

The FAA is working with the commercial aviation and medical communities to study the emotional and mental health of U.S. commercial pilots.     The joint FAA and industry group known as the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) recommended the study based on the recent Malaysia Flight 370 and Germanwings Flight 9525 accidents.    ...