Hanscom takeoff crash is second fatal one More than a dozen National Transportation Safety Board investigators scoured the crash site at Hanscom Field in Bedford on Monday. The Gulfstream IV, the type of business jet that crashed Saturday while attempting to take off from Hanscom Field, has an excellent reputation for safety, having crashed during take...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: Australia's deputy PM defends searching the southern Indian Ocean The joint search agency says the original search area is not plane's final resting place U.S. Navy official: The pings detected are no longer believed to have come from the plane The pings had been at the center of the search since they were picked up weeks ago (...

FAA Order 7110.659A, effective June 1, will recategorize the guidelines air traffic controllers use to provide proper wake turbulence separation. The new standards are expected to increase airport capacity while reducing both arrival and departure delays. The FAA currently classifies aircraft for wake turbulence purposes based on maximum certified takeo...

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (CNN) -- Data from communications between satellites and missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was released Tuesday, more than two months after relatives of passengers say they requested that it be made public. But criticism quickly emerged suggesting that the information provided lacks important elements that would help outside ex...

MORE consumer electronic devices and technologies are expected to make their way into commercial aircraft to enhance crew and passenger experience.  Honeywell Aerospace, which specialises in aviation technologies, says in the near future, in-flight travel will see the use of tablets, wireless facilities, voice-recognition features and various apps....

A passenger jet had to burn off thousands of litres of fuel before it could safely land in Shannon after suffering a navigation systems failure.US Airways flight AWE-711 was travelling from Zurich in Switzerland to Philadelphia in the US and was about 200km west of the Clare Coast when the problem emerged.   Shortly after 1.40pm yesterday the p...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS The FAA changes runway rules at site of near miss at Newark Airport in April The aircraft were operating on intersecting runways during the April incident As a result, one of the runways will not be used for arrivals when the other has takeoffs Washington (CNN) -- The rules for takeoffs and landings at Newark Liberty International A...

Washington (CNN) -- Two commercial jets that nearly collided north of Hawaii last month were at altitudes assigned to them by air traffic controllers, the National Transportation Safety Board tells CNN. The cause of the near-disaster in the skies east of the Hawaiian Islands on April 25 is still under investigation. But a source with knowledge of the prob...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has launched its inaugural Air Navigation Report, a development which will be supported by a series of new 'online dashboards' the UN aviation agency has developed to improve transparency and accountability on aviation safety and air navigation performance and implementation in all ICAO Regions. The new...

Turbulence injured six on US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Florida on Sunday PHILADELPHIA As the plane plummeted, Mark Pensiero said he felt his seat drop and his body press up against the seat belt. Gravity seemed to lose its grasp on the 58-year-old Burlington County man. The Orlando-bound Airbus rocked violently from side to side. "For a co...