A failure in air traffic control planning left two airliners on a collision course over the Northern Territory with just minutes to spare, the latest air safety investigation reveals.   A Qantas 737 and an Air China A330 were on converging flight paths and flying at the same altitude when, during a handover between air traffic controllers, there was...

Three US Airways jets, carrying a total of 192 passengers and crew members, were reportedly taking off or landing at Washington's Reagan National Airport when they came within 12 seconds of a mid-air collision.   The incident occurred Tuesday at about 2 p.m. when air traffic controllers put two departing commuter jets on a collision course with a th...

Customers validate improvements on package's first anniversary   RENTON, Wash., July 31, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Customers of Boeing's [NYSE: BA] Next-Generation 737 are validating the benefits of the industry-leading Performance Improvement Package (PIP), one year after the first airplane PIP airplane was delivered. PIP combines aerodynamic and eng...

A United Airlines Boeing 737 landed safely in Denver despite a bird strike that left the jet with a large gash on its nose, reports KUSA Channel 9 News of Denver.   United Flight 1475 originated at Dallas/Fort Worth and struck the bird as it was descending in preparation to land at Denver around 9 a.m. MT Tuesday morning. None of the 151 passenger...

By:   David Learmount London The criminalisation of air accidents is likely to get worse before it gets better - if indeed it ever does get better. That is the consensus in the air transport industry itself, and among the specialist lawyers who serve it.   If this consensus proves correct, the dream of operating a successful industry-wide...

Paris: European plane maker Airbus delayed the introduction of its newest passenger jet, the carbon-composite A350, as parent EADS unveiled better-than-expected second-quarter earnings lifted by resilient demand for its existing range of jetliners.   The three-month delay follows a glitch in wing production and pushes first delivery of the all-new A...

Air traffic controllers who admit to falling asleep or playing video games when they should be directing airliners can escape punishment under a reporting system that the U.S. Transportation Department's inspector general says is seriously flawed.   "The intent of the reporting program is to improve aviation safety, not to provide amnesty to co...

India faces the possibility of a downgrade of its aviation safety system by the US if it does not take urgent steps to strengthen institutions like the civil aviation regulator to meet the challenges of a fast-growing air traffic, an aviation consultancy group has said. "In the last two years alone domestic traffic has grown by 36 per cent and intern...

Industry analysts estimated last week that in the next 20 years, the airlines are going to need 466,000 new pilots. When I said to an airline pilot friend that such a job market would make it easy for his son to follow in his footsteps, he smiled.   "I think he wants a flying job instead," he replied.   I noted that this sounded odd...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc said it was working with federal authorities after what appeared to be sewing needles were found in food on four U.S.-bound flights that left Sunday from Amsterdam, injuring one passenger.   The needles were found in sandwiches made by the airline's Amsterdam caterer, Gate Gourmet, Delta spokeswoman Chris Kel...