Emirates 24|7 | Mar. 28, 2013 Two aircraft carrying around 600 passengers escaped a mid-air collision on Wednesday while flying over Pakistan airspace. The disaster was averted after aircraft collision avoidance system activated automatically and also thanks to the presence of mind of the air traffic controller, Pakistan's Geo television reported. One p...

By Oliver Smith, The Telegraph | Mar. 28, 2013 Contrary to popular belief, the majority of plane crashes are survivable The latest in our Travel Truths series looks at the safest place to be seated if you're unlucky enough to be involved in a plane crash. Although some claim that seats over the wing of an aircraft are best (because the plane is &quo...

By Joe Schoffstall The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) predicts 10,000 commercial drones could be in the skies by 2020 after guidelines are approved. For now, Congress has asked the FAA to write regulations on civil operation of small unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace and submit them by 2015. "Once enabled, comm...

AP | Mar. 16, 2013 Two Southwest Airlines planes struck each other while leaving adjacent gates at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.   Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz says no one was hurt when the planes' winglets collided Saturday morning. Both jets returned to their gates, and all passengers and crew got off.   According to Mainz, initial ins...

By Alison Godfrey, News.com.au | Mar. 19, 2013 The water truck stuck underneath the easy Jet flight to Mallorca at Manchester Airport. Picture: Manchester Evening News. Think you're having a bad day? Spare a thought for this truck driver. He seriously needs lessons in reversing. The truck was carrying water at Manchester airport when the driver accide...

Xinhua | Mar. 22, 2013 More than 350 passengers were stranded for several hours at Zambia's biggest international airport, the Kenneth Kaunda Airport, after an Emirates aircraft EK 714, a Boeing 777-300ER, was severely damaged by a fuel tanker before take-off, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Friday. The Dubai-bound plane was about to refuel in readines...

The pilot of Air France Flight 447 was operating on one hour of sleep before the plane crashed into the Atlantic. In Philadelphia, a man impersonating a pilot made it into a US Airways cockpit. The era of robot pilots can't get here fast enough.   After a day of pilot-related news like today, it's hard not to wonder. A pilot for Air France, respon...

The technology will help pilots calculate landing and stopping distances. WASHINGTON - American Airlines will equip its Airbus 320 fleet with equipment to reduce the risk of planes sliding off runways, the companies announced Wednesday in an effort to reduce a leading cause of airline accidents and fatalities in the last decade.   The cockpit tec...

MISSISSAUGA -A driverless van rolled across an active runway at Pearson International Airport on Monday night, prompting an air traffic controller to warn the pilots of an incoming jet to abort their landing. Now officials are probing how the van was left unattended and why the pilots of the arriving flight ignored the order from air traffic control to ab...

A Taiwanese airline plans to build a flight training facility at Sacramento Executive Airport, county officials say.   The first step in the process of establishing the flight school will take place today when the Board of Supervisors will be asked to approve a lease between the county and EVA Airlines.   The airline, which provides freight a...