An object made of straw and wire triggered a terror scare aboard a Madrid-bound flight from New York's JFK airport on July 12. No explosive was found. (ABC News)   New details emerged today about the two mysterious pieces of wire encased in straws that triggered a short-lived but widely-reported terror scare on a Delta flight last week from JFK airp...

Asian and Middle Eastern airlines take most of the honors at the annual Skytrax World Airline Awards. But who came out on top? Once again, Qatar flies higher than the others.. (CNN) Qatar Airways has flown away with the title of World's Best Airline for the second consecutive year.   It took the Airline of the Year prize in Skytrax's annual World ...

Asian and Middle Eastern airlines take most of the honors at the annual Skytrax World Airline Awards. But who came out on top? Once again, Qatar flies higher than the others.. (CNN) Qatar Airways has flown away with the title of World's Best Airline for the second consecutive year.   It took the Airline of the Year prize in Skytrax's annual World ...

A deadly combination of pilot confusion, "warning system ergonomics" design and inadequate pilot training were responsible for the crash of Air France Flight 447 on 1 June 2009.   This is the conclusion reached by the BEA (Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile), the French authority respo...

Miami-Bound Flight's Scary Turbulence   Two separate flights were diverted Tuesday after one plane encountered turbulence so severe that five on board had to be hospitalized and another plane's cabin filled with fumes that made several people sick.   Two flight attendants and three passengers were taken to the hospital after American Airlines...

Taipei, July 9 (CNA) Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport had at least one collision per week between aircraft and birds in 2011, the highest rate recorded in six years, the Flight Safety Foundation-Taiwan said Monday.   From 2006 to 2011, there were 155 reports of bird strikes at the airport, 64 of which occurred in 2011.   The number of b...

(AP) Three years after France's worst air crash, government investigators on Thursday released a final report on the accident that paints a vivid picture of pilots who, confused by faulty air-speed data during a thunderstorm, struggled to save the jet but wound up causing it to stall and plunge into the Atlantic Ocean. All 228 people aboard were killed. &...

(AP) Three years after France's worst air crash, government investigators on Thursday released a final report on the accident that paints a vivid picture of pilots who, confused by faulty air-speed data during a thunderstorm, struggled to save the jet but wound up causing it to stall and plunge into the Atlantic Ocean. All 228 people aboard were killed. &...

http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp090601.en.pdf

Aircraft turbulence guidelines should be completely rewritten after new research by Centre of Excellence chief investigator Dr. Todd Lane revealed thunderstorms could produce unexpected turbulence more than 100km away from storm cells.   The research by Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science and The University of Melbourne researcher Dr To...