Chairman Hersman By Alan Levin and Michael Shepard President Barack Obama nominated Deborah Hersman for a third term as chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, two days before her appointment was to expire. Hersman, 43, has been chairman of the accident investigation agency since July 2009. The NTSB is coping with its busiest stre...

RFID Integrated Solutions, certified by the FAA, promises to help airlines save labor, time and money. Jul 28, 2013-Commercial airplanes must undergo a number of daily, weekly and monthly maintenance checks to ensure they're flight-ready. These manual checks include inspection of life vests, oxygen generators and other loose emergency equipment in an airc...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - U.S. aviation officials are no longer allowing foreign airlines to land alongside another plane when touching down at San Francisco International Airport in the wake of the deadly Asiana Airlines crash. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Tuesday it implemented the change "to minimize distractions during a cri...

Boeing confirmed to ATW it is asking specific operators of 717, Next-Generation 737, 747-400, 767 and 777s to inspect aircraft with the Honeywell fixed emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) following the July 12 Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner fire at London Heathrow Airport. "We are taking this action following the AAIB Special Bulletin, which recomm...

The FAA is taking action in the wake of Asiana Airline crash at SFO. Foreign pilots are now being treated differently at SFO than U.S.-based pilots. They are being told to use GPS when coming in for a landing. NBC Bay Area's Kimberly Tere reports from Millbrae with more on this change and why it happened. The FAA is taking action Sunday in the wake of the...

The landing gear didn't just collapse when a Southwest Airlines jet touched down in New York City and plunged nose-first into the tarmac: The landing gear punched into the plane itself as it skidded for almost half a mile. The new revelations came Tuesday as the National Transportation Safety Board continued to investigate its second major landing accid...

National Transportation Safety Board member Robert L. Sumwalt said Wednesday at a pilots' conference that an NTSB report finds lapsed monitoring factored in 94 percent of aviation mishaps. He spoke in the wake of the July 6 Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco.  By JOAN LOWY WASHINGTON (AP) - Airline pilots spend nearly all their time monitorin...

Aircraft collisions that are “barely avoided” have increased more than 600 percent in the past four years, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration, potentially putting thousands of passengers’ lives at risk. Although the agency’s internal watchdog said the U.S. still has the safest air transportation system...

As the Asiana Airlines Inc. jet neared Los Angeles International Airport, Captain Vic Hooper told his Korean co-pilot to make a visual approach, meaning he'd manually fly instead of letting automation do the work. The co-pilot froze, leaving them too high and off course, Hooper said about the incident, which occurred several years ago. Hooper said he had ...

'Miss me'? an over-eager aerobridge seems to be telling this China Airlines plane as an aerobridge operator's miscalculation dented the Boeing 737-800 plane's door when it parked, forcing the cancellation of the turn-around flight to Taipei and stranding over 100 passengers. Sources estimate repair cost to run from $1 million to $3 million. MANILA, Philip...