String of incidents at South Korean airline prompts worries safety czar doesn't have enough power   The damaged wheel of Asiana's Airbus A320 after the plane skidded off the runway while landing in Hiroshima, Japan, on April 14. SEOUL-Two years ago, in the wake of a fatal accident in San Francisco, Asiana Airlines Inc. brought in a hi...

  Pilots will undoubtably resist Lufthansa's proposed spot testing for prescription drugs but it isn't unreasonable for safety's sake. Lufthansa, following the crash of a flight from its Germanwings subsidiary, is proposing random drug testing of its pilots. Pictured is a Lufthansa Oktoberfest crew from September 2013. Lufthansa The...

  With last year's disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines flight, the international community has proposed steps to better monitor and track planes using existing technologies and improve flight data recovery, but some stakeholders have expressed concerns about the impacts to cost and safety, congressional investigators observed in a new re...

Thanks to cockpit data recorders, investigators know the precise time Andreas Lubitz sent Germanwings Flight 9525 into a mountainside and the maneuvers he used to do so. But when it comes to evaluating Lubitz's psychology as the plane crashed, investigators have had little more to work from than a cockpit voice recording that, according to French prosecuto...

    EDWARDS, CA (CBSLA.com) - "I would like to propose to you that electric-propulsion will change aviation far more radically than anything we've seen in aviation before."   Standing in the dusty, unforgiving dryness of the Rogers Lake Bed at Edwards Air Force Base near Palmdale, JoeBen Bevirt, founder of Joby Avia...

  WHITEFIELD, Maine (AP) - Federal investigators have determined that a helicopter crash in Whitefield last year was caused when the pilot failed to respond to low fuel warnings. The National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday says pilot Michael Conley failed to respond appropriately to a signal warning him of a lack...

      By Roger Rapoport   DAYTONA BEACH - Three of 2014's five commercial aviation crashes around the world were weather related. These tragic accidents took the lives of 326 passengers and crew on different aircraft flown by different air carriers in Taiwan, Mali and the Java Sea. Is something going wrong at aviation ...

  FLOCKS of drones could be used to drive birds from airports to significantly cut the number of potentially-catastrophic collisions with aircraft, Airbus revealed today. The idea is among shortlisted entries to a competition organised by the plane maker for the future of flight. The drones plan would involve birds being guided away...

If your pilot wants to crash your plane . . . If you cannot trust the pilot, who could you trust on an aircraft? This question is becoming more and more an issue over the last 20 years. There is a pattern of crashes, hijackings caused knowingly by exactly the same people that are paid by you to take you from point A to B on a safe aircaft. On M...

The co-pilot of a crashed Germanwings plane tried a controlled descent on the previous flight on the morning of the crash, French air accident investigators confirmed Wednesday. The German newspaper Bild first reported that French investigators said co-pilot Andreas Lubitz tried a controlled descent on March 24, the same day he crashed the Airbus 320...