CANBERRA, Australia -- Just weeks before the hunt for the missing Malaysian airliner is set to resume, an Australian official said Thursday that the sprawling search area in the southern Indian Ocean may be extended farther south based on a new analysis of a failed attempt to call the plane by satellite phone. Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss...

U. S. airplane near-collisions jumped in 2013, FAA reports The number of times U.S. airplanes nearly collided more than doubled last year, though the biggest increase by far was in the low-risk category, a new Federal Aviation Administration report said. The number of times U.S. airplanes nearly collided almost doubled last year, though the biggest incre...

Safety Board Says Union, Company Violated Rules Barring Public Analysis of Plane Crash By ANDY PASZTOR Federal investigators looking into last year's crash of a United Parcel Service Inc. UPS +0.13% cargo plane took an unusual step on Monday and expelled representatives of the company and the pilots union from the probe. The National Transportation Sa...

The independent safety watchdog listed four major areas of concern : crashes into land or water; collisions on runways; landing accidents; and the lack of safety management systems at small carriers. The Transportation Safety Board says it's "troubled" by unsafe practices in Canada's air travel sector and called on the government to take actio...

Taiwanese president urges authorities to improve monitoring as TransAsia Airways chief apologises to families of victims   Soldiers clean up the wreckage of the TransAsia Airways turboprop plane that crashed on Penghu island. Photo: Reuters Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou yesterday ordered transport authorities to improve flight safety, as the hea...

Flying into Dallas/Fort Worth Airport or Dallas Love Field can be challenging for pilots in the spring and summer, when thunderstorms can pop up in minutes. A 3-D Look for Pilots But Honeywell's IntuVue 3-D radar system, which the company showed off at Love Field on Wednesday, makes it easier for pilots to avoid the thunderheads and land safely. "...

The two are the chief and deputy chief pilots of Flight 320 that flew from Hanoi to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on August 7. That flight was conducted on a plane coded HVN1203 of the Vietnamese national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines. When the plane was flying through the sky of Ho Chi Minh City, it received an order of the local air traffic control ...

WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board announced today that it has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment regarding proposed changes to rules governing investigation procedures. The rules are laid out in 49 C.F.R. part 831. In the NPRM, the NTSB proposes organizing its investigation procedures into mode-specific subpa...

Haemorrhaging cash after almost unfathomable double disasters that killed 537 people, Malaysia Airlines will be brought back under the wing of the Malaysian Government as a prelude to a comprehensive overhaul. It will be the latest in a string of restructurings of the carrier - which flies daily to New Zealand - in the past decade, all of which failed to ...

Aircraft Departing Puerto Rico Carried 186 Passengers and Six Crew Members By SUSAN CAREY And ANDY PASZTOR A JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU plane bound for New York aborted takeoff Saturday night from San Juan, Puerto Rico, after its left engine caught fire following a bird strike, prompting pilots to evacuate the plane using emergency slides. JetBlue sai...