(CNN) -- Eighteen tourists on a hot air balloon ride in southern Egypt were killed Tuesday when the balloon exploded and plummeted to the ground, authorities said.   It was the deadliest hot air balloon accident in the world in at least 20 years.   Twenty-one people were in the balloon when it dropped about 300 meters (almost 1,000 feet) in...

The Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore (AAIB) will be hosting the Second International Accident Investigation (IAI) Forum at the Singapore Aviation Academy (SAA) on 23 - 25 April 2013.  The IAI Forum 2013 is co-organised by the SAA, and strongly supported by: -          International Civil Avi...

The Boeing ScanEagle is an unmanned aircraft used for intelligence-gathering purposes. The FAA is developing guidelines to introduce drones for military and non-military use into U.S. airspace. / Boeing Travelers already sweat the safety issues inherent in congested airspace, and the planned introduction of unmanned aircraft, some of which are prone to ...

About 50 relatives of Colgan Air crash victims were meeting Tuesday on its fourth anniversary to push for better pilot training to prevent a similar crash. The relatives are meeting with lawmakers in Congress and with Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration. Their lobbying effort led to the approval of legislation requiring rules for g...

民航安全信息網 發佈時間：2013-2-17 11:31:25   據國際航線飛行員協會（ALPA）稱，在美國聯邦航空局（FAA）對其新的航空公司飛行員疲勞規則的一個分析中，FAA嚴重高估了對所有貨運飛行員實施飛行和執勤時間限制以及最低休息時間規定的成本，並低估了它所帶來的�...

Flying on a commercial jetliner has never been safer. It will be four years on Tuesday since the last fatal crash in the United States, a record unmatched since propeller planes gave way to the jet age more than half a century ago. Globally, last year was the safest since 1945, with 23 deadly accidents and 475 fatalities, according to the Aviation Safety ...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is long overdue in completing rules for better airline crew training in response to a fatal crash in 2009, according to a federal watchdog that says the agency must overcome industry opposition. The deadline for a rule for better crew training was Oct. 1, 2011, and the deadline for a rule about pilot ...

Faced with substantial industry opposition, federal regulators are struggling to implement a sweeping aviation safety law enacted after the last fatal U.S. airline crash nearly four years ago, according to a report by a government watchdog.   The Federal Aviation Administration is experiencing lengthy delays in putting in place rules required by the...

(CNN) -- Dutch airline Transavia said it has launched an investigation after a Boeing 737 pilot was locked out of the cockpit and his first officer was later found asleep at the controls. The incident took place in September, when the airliner was en route from Greece to the Netherlands, a top Dutch safety investigation agency said. The 737 landed safely ...

January 29, 2013   The National Transportation Safety Board is calling for establishing new duty-time regulations covering maintenance workers involved in on-demand, fractional and all repair station operations, along with those involved with scheduled carriers. The recommendation is one of three new ones issued today (Jan. 29) following the saf...