People stand in the main terminal at Washington Dulles International Airport is shown October 2, 2014 in Dulles, Virginia. Looking around at modern airlines' slogans, you might notice a common trend: Few of them stress safety. Not Delta's "Keep Climbing," not American Airlines' "The new American is arriving," not ...

  (CBS) - Cargo pilots are calling for federal agencies to help prevent accidents that might be caused by pilot fatigue. They say they need the same protections limiting the hours they fly that currently apply to passenger pilots. 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports. The cargo pilots have been waging the battle in court, in Congres...

  NEW YORK - JetBlue says one of its planes aborted a takeoff at Kennedy International Airport when another aircraft suddenly crossed the runway. JetBlue spokesman Rick Clark says Flight 1295 to Austin, Texas, was cleared for takeoff on Saturday evening and rolling down the tarmac at full speed when the pilot was forced to put on the b...

AOPA's Air Safety Institute (ASI) released a new video and 16-page guide to help aircraft pilots and passengers survive the conditions following a forced landing. The program, "Survive: Beyond the Forced Landing," was developed in conjunction with the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, which was concerned that pilots in that country are not ...

Calendar year 2014 has turned out to be the best 12 months ever for airline safety, according to Ascend, a Flightglobal advisory service. For many this may seem an unexpected result, given the perceptions created by the high-profile losses of two Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777s and the crash of an AirAsia Airbus A320 just before year-end. Ascend's directo...

  As Probe Awaits Information From Black Boxes, Maintenance Issues Seen Less Likely By ANDY PASZTOR ators prepare to process data from AirAsia Flight 8501, industry officials and air-safety experts are focusing on the likelihood of a high-altitude stall or upset as the main culprit in the crash and playing down the possibility that ...

Available conventional flight tracking methods like civil and even military radar and airspace control appear to have failed to monitor the flight path of the aircraft, after it inexplicably turned around while enroute to China and then turned into a ghost flight never to be heard of again nor any wreckage found up to this day.   The year 2014 has p...

    FAA has issued a final rule requiring all US commercial airlines to establish a safety management system (SMS), which uses data analysis to identify safety risks, by 2018.   Both passenger and cargo airlines are required to submit an SMS implementation plan to FAA within six months. Each airline will be required to have a...

  Taiwanese carrier Eva Air retired the Boeing 747-400 Combi aircraft from its fleet on 5 January. The type's last service was operated by B-16409 on the Hong Kong-Taipei Taoyuan route, says the Star Alliance member. Besides operating passenger and cargo services, the aircraft had also performed diplomatic missions for the island na...

An international search team has yet to find the black boxes that hold clues to what brought down AirAsia Bhd. (AIRA) Flight 8501 almost a week ago, sparking renewed calls to speed use of technology that would make tracking planes and studying accidents easier.     The hunt under way near Pangkalan Bun, about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) south...