The aviation company Pratt & Whitney is exploring whether technology known as additive manufacturing could be used to develop more compact jet engines that could make commercial airplanes lighter and more fuel efficient.   Pratt & Whitney already uses two additive manufacturing techniques to make some engine components. Instead of...

Relatives of the victims pray during a Buddhist ritual near the wreckage of TransAsia Airways plane Flight GE235 after it crash landed into a river, in New Taipei City, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/River Wang (Reuters) - Pilots at Taiwan's TransAsia Airways are being tested on how they handle an engine failure and subsequent emergency, days after the fa...

ICAO Compromise Means Airline Industry Group Will Support Airliner Tracking Plans By ANDY PASZTOR MONTREAL-International air-safety officials meeting here endorsed the goal of implementing the universal tracking of virtually all airliners world-wide within the next few years, even negotiating a last-minute compromise to gain the support of the leadin...

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Government and aviation industry officials from dozens of countries are meeting in Montreal this week to try to find consensus on how to keep from losing airliners like the one that vanished without a trace in Asia and another shot down in Eastern Europe.   It is only the second high-level safety confere...

SINGAPORE - Regulators are likely to scrutinize TransAsia Airways and its fleet of ATR72 turboprop aircraft after Wednesday's crash in Taiwan, its second fatal accident in seven months. Industry data showed the crash of Flight GE235, in which at least 16 people were killed, was the fifth aircraft the airline has written off since 1995. The death toll...

  Singapore Airlines (SIA) is looking to enhance its aircraft tracking capabilities following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 last year and a push by the United Nations' civil aviation arm for the industry to address current gaps. -- PHOTO: SIA Singapore Airlines (SIA) is looking to enhance its aircraft tracking c...

Two commercial airplanes vanished from radar in 2014. Although the wreckage of AirAsia QZ8501 has been recovered, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is still missing, with and search-and-rescue efforts coming up short.   With all the tracking technology at our disposal in the modern age, it seems incredible that planes can still disappear. GPS tracking ha...

Based in large part on the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the two-year search for Air France Flight 447, the NTSB is asking the FAA to require new and existing aircraft that fly oceanic routes to carry certain devices and features that will help first responders to more quickly find a downed aircraft and its data recorders and giv...

  A fresh attempt to lift the sunken fuselage of the doomed AirAsia plane from the Java Sea today failed when a wire rope snapped after the wreckage reached the surface of the water, Indonesian officials said. Efforts to lift the fuselage or the main section of the Airbus A320-200, expected to contain remaining bodies of victims of the D...

WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board today issued a series of safety recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration calling for improvements in locating downed aircraft and ways to obtain critical flight data faster and without the need for immediate underwater retrieval. The Board also re-emphasized the need for cockpit image reco...