Lt. Cmdr. Sean Paxton, assigned to the Air Combat Electronics Program Office (PMA-209), demonstrates the Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance, or MFOQA, software for a visitor on March 26 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. MFOQA, which will help the Navy and Marine Corps reduce its aviation mishap rate and enhance aircrew training, achieved...

Never renowned for its ability to fast-track rulemaking, the FAA might be gunning for a new record. It has been nearly a decade since the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) introduced an amendment to its aviation rulemaking to require member states to have certified international airports establish a safety management system (SMS). The FAA h...

The FAA in 2011 had "strongly encouraged" Boeing to make changes to the 787 flight management computer system to provide autothrottle "wake up" capability in all modes. The request is detailed for the first time in a new submission to the U.S. NTSB by Asiana Airlines' on the July 6, 2013 crash in San Francisco of Flight 214, a Boeing...

fuselage skin wrinkles (NTSC) A Boeing 737-900ER operated by Lion Air was damaged in a bounced landing accident at Surabaya in Indonesia, according to a preliminary report issued by the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC). The airplane, PK-LFH, performed the scheduled domestic service JT-361 from Balikpapan to Surabaya. During the approach ...

(CNN) -- Cameras in the cockpit. Real-time streaming of communications and flight information. Increased capacity flight data and voice recorders. Transponders that detach on impact and float. Once the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is solved, there are changes in air safety that might result from the lessons of the disappearance of a jumbo jet...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian investigators - with the help of the FBI - are trying to restore files deleted last month from the home flight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane to see if they shed any light on the disappearance, officials said Wednesday. Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference that the pilot, Capt. ...

"Your iPhone is more powerful than the evidence-collecting computers in the cockpit." That's what the Guardian had to say about the technologies available for tracking airplanes. Whoa. We carry around cell-phone GPS in our pockets and use Google Earth to peruse the planet. Air travel, you'll be terrified to learn, is way behind the times. Here...

  MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 370 IS THE 84TH PLANE TO GO MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING SINCE 1948. A NEW VISUALIZATION MAPS OUT THIS HISTORY OF LOST FLIGHTS. The disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 hasn't gotten much less baffling since the news broke on March 8th. The investigators from 26 countries racing to solve what's been dubbed the biggest mystery...

The Federal Aviation Administration is considering requiring alcohol and drug testing of maintenance people outside the United States who work on aircraft operated by U.S. airlines. The FAA requires random drug and alcohol testing for maintenance workers based in the United States. However, as the FAA noted in a release, "the FAA's drug and alcohol t...

By ANDY PASZTOR U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky. Aviatio...