Tokyo, Japan - Japan on Thursday raised the age limit for piloting a commercial plane to 67, the latest effort in Asia to get to grips with a drastic pilot shortage. The move looks set to make pilots working for Japanese airlines among the oldest in the world. Until now, pilots had to retire their wings at 65. Under Japan's new ru...

  "You can always find examples where having a pilot in the loop will be the determining factor." Those are the words of Fabrice Bregier, the chief executive officer of Airbus' commercial airliner unit, as quoted in a story by Bloomberg and other media outlets. Bregier was speaking to reporters at a briefing in Paris over the w...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) launched the IATA Standard Safety Assessment (ISSA) for airlines not eligible for the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA). ISSA is a voluntary safety audit program aligned with global best practices and created primarily for airlines that operate aircraft which have a lower maximum take-off weight than...

French gendarmes, seen in this picture made available to the press by the French Interior Ministry April 1, 2015, work near debris from wreckage showing a German flag at the crash site of an Airbus A320, near Seyne-les-Alpes. NEW YORK- To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots. That radical idea is decades away, if it ever bec...

The FAA has published a list of 736 redundant or underutilized VOR and NDB standard instrument approach procedures that it proposes to eliminate as the agency moves forward with implementation of the NextGen satellite-based air traffic system. The long-awaited list, published in the Federal Register in a notice of proposed rulemaking on April 13, was ba...

Safety official says many training programs too predictable   Pilots work inside a Boeing 787 flight simulator in Fort Worth, Texas, in May 2014. By ANDY PASZTOR MADRID-A senior Airbus Group NV safety official has urged revamping pilot training world-wide, in one of the most forceful industry warnings to date about the dangers of ...

  A plane from the South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines after it skidded off the runway this week at Hiroshima Airport in Japan. Credit Yomiuri Shimbun/European Pressphoto Agency SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea said on Wednesday that it would review the qualifications of all the pilots of Airbus A320 passenger jets flown by carriers b...

The plane skidded before coming to rest on grass beside the runway Air safety authorities in Japan are investigating how a South Korean Asiana Airlines plane skidded off a runway on landing at Hiroshima airport. The 74 passengers and seven crew members used emergency chutes to evacuate the Airbus 320 in the incident late on Tuesday. Local media r...

  DGCA had initiated an audit into Jet Airways after the airline's Mumbai-Brussels flight, with 280 passengers on board, plunged 5,000 feet over Turkey last week. (Reuters) The Jet Airways aircraft, however, survived without any damage. A Dubai-Mumbai Jet Airways flight with 110 passengers on board made a safe landing after being hit b...

Prosecutors say plane crash co-pilot Andreas Lubitz underwent psychotherapy   French police discuss operations at the site of the Germanwings crash, in Seyne-les-Alpes, French Alps, on Tuesday. PARIS-France's aviation accident investigation office is focusing its probe of Germanwings Flight 9525 on "systemic weaknesses" tha...