Worry about future pilot and engineer supply for airlines has been around since the 1990s, but something has always happened to postpone the predicted shortage.   Industry experts today, however, look at the number of forward orders for new aircraft, predictions of world fleet expansion, and sustained growth in the Asia-Pacific region and cannot see...

Workers and investigators clear debris from the scene of the plane crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 on Feb. 16, 2009 in Clarence, New York.   More than a decade has passed since the last major-airline accident on U.S. soil. That's great news for aviation companies and their passengers -- and a complication for rule makers trying to improv...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday issued a Safety Alert to warn pilots using in-cockpit FIS-B and Satellite Weather display systems that the NEXRAD "age indicator" can be misleading. The actual NEXRAD data can be as much as 20 minutes older than the age indication on the display in the cockpit. If misinterpreted, this diff...

The International Civil Aviation Organization and Airports Council International have linked up to improve safety at airports worldwide. Under the MoU the organizations signed on June 15, ICAO and ACI will work together on technical assistance programs, support regional collaboration, exchange data and attain mutual access to each other's databases. The M...

The overall safety situation in the civil aviation industry has shown marked improvement in the last few years, thanks to interventions by organisations like the International Air Transport Association (Iata) and other stakeholders. Last year, the number of accidents globally involving aircraft dropped to 2.4 incidents for every one-million departures fro...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today released the final agenda including speaker names, affiliations, and biographies for the forum on General Aviation Safety: Climbing to the Next Level, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, June 19 & 20. Representatives from government, industry and academia will serve as panelists during the forum an...

August 14-16, 2012 Long Beach, CA USA The FAA Flight Standards Service is initiating a meeting with the States from the Asia Pacific Region that will provide a unique opportunity to share information on our best practices in the safety oversight of operations and continuing airworthiness with civil aviation authorities in the Asia-Pacific Region. &nbs...

The IATA announced that Qantas Airways CEO and Managing Director Alan Joyce has assumed his duties as Chairman of the IATA Board of Governors. Joyce succeeds KLM President and CEO Peter Hartman, whose one-year term expired at the conclusion of the Association's 68th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Beijing. Joyce's appointme...

The FAA released Advisory Circular 120-76B late last week, updating the "Guidelines for the Certification, Airworthiness and Operational Use of Portable Electronic Flight Bags." Naturally, much of the interest surrounding the updated AC involves how it applies to tablet computers such as the Apple iPad, which has gained a huge following among pil...

WITH 24 hours two air lines operating in Nigeria took lives. The first was in Ghana when a Nigerian cargo airline Allied Air crashed into a minibus at Ghana's Accra airport after overshooting the runway on landing and killing at least 10 people. Hours later that fatal crash of Dana Air on Sunday afternoon which not only killed everyone on board but also t...