European aviation safety regulators introduced new training requirements on Monday (4 May) to help prevent accidents by pilots losing control of planes in-flight, such as during a stall or in bad weather.   The International Air Transport Association said that while these incidents were rare, they were deadly.   In ...

International air-safety watchdogs are poised to advocate installing video cameras in airliner cockpits, putting pilots groups on the defensive and prompting them to recast their opposition strategy.   The aviation arm of the United Nations is expected to make a big push later this year for such changes, according to industry officials, safety exper...

An international group of industry and government experts has decided to begin developing tougher packaging standards for shipments of lithium batteries as cargo on commercial aircraft, according to people familiar with the details.   Hammered out during a week-long meeting by an advisory group of experts to the International Civil Aviation Organiza...

  The FAA says airlines may be able to begin using ground-based augmentation systems (GBAS) for satellite-based Category 3 instrument landings that culminate in a 50-ft. decision height or an automatic landing by 2018, offering a lower-cost alternative to legacy ground-based instrument landing systems (ILS). A growing number of car...

  Let's just put it right out there: flying is a king-sized pain in the ass. The cramped seats, the recycled air, the turbulence, the mysterious noises, and whaaaaaaaaaaat's the deal with the food? If you can identify with the fourth of the population that gets freaked out from flying, you know there's little one can do or say to quell t...

  American Airlines flights experienced significant delays this evening after pilots' iPads-which the airline uses to distribute flight plans and other information to the crew-abruptly crashed. "Several dozen" flights were affected by the outage, according to a spokesperson for the airline.   "The pilot told us whe...

BEIJING-The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) is calling for Asian countries to step up their safety oversight, to end the region's lagging international performance. The association's data analysis shows that smaller Asian carriers, following years of dramatic safety improvements, are now suffering more crashes than they did around 2010. T...

    The old flight attendant call-button could be on its way out if a clever health app by Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands takes off.   Instead, flight attendants will get a clear view of what passengers are distressed or ill just by looking at an app on their airline-issued tablets which monitors passenger ...

Proposals include restricting lithium batteries carried as cargo by commercial jets   A frame grab from a video shows a test at the FAA's technical center in Atlantic City, N.J., last April, where a cargo container was packed with 5,000 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Lithium batteries, packed tightly together, can overheat or catc...

By Eric "Cap'n Aux" Auxier / Published April 23, 2015 While the airline accident du jour continues to (annoyingly) grab the headlines and be overanalyzed ad nauseum by the media's self-proclaimed yet often clueless "experts," airline safety continues to improve by leaps and bounds. All this blathering tends to worry the public, givin...