An aviation group said 2013 was the second-safest year on record, with only 265 people dying in crashes all year.   (CNN) - The Aviation Safety Network said 2013 was a very safe year for commercial flying. In a report issued Wednesday, it said there were 29 accidents in which at least one person died. That's the second-safest year by number of a...

N670H was the first aircraft in the world to be certified with TCAS. Recently I spent a day with Honeywell Aerospace and it had clearly worked its way into my brain at a deeper-than-expected level. Before I found the opportunity to go over my notes and write a follow-up article about my time with the Honeywell Crash Test Dummies up at Paine Field, I fo...

A drunken man gets tackled by a group of off-duty cops in November while trying to storm the cockpit on a flight from Warsaw to Toronto. An inebriated passenger on a January flight from Iceland to New York tries to grope and choke fellow travelers until crew members and other passengers bind him with duct tape. Such incidents are no longer flukes but...

(AP) New details about the crash of an Asiana Airlines jet have renewed questions about whether a culture of strict deference to more-senior pilots can compromise air safety. Documents and testimony from the National Transportation Safety Board this week showed there was confusion and poor communication in the cockpit of the Asiana jet as it approache...

As Asiana Airlines Flight 214 approached the runway at San Francisco International Airport this past July, the pilots voiced concern that the aircraft was flying too slow but did nothing to about it until just before the aircraft hit the ground.   UND aviation students Ben Mossberd (left) and Alec Davis train on a flight simulator Monday. As Asiana...

Confusion Surrounding Automation Linked to Landing Disaster in San Francisco By ANDY PASZTOR CONNECT Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed during landing at San Francisco International Airport in July, resulting in three deaths and injuring more than 180. estigators will release new information this week highlighting that excessive reliance on cockpit co...

The National Transportation Safety Board is poised to hold an investigative hearing on pilots' use of autopilot - a commonplace occurrence that now leave the drivers of craft feeling more like baggage than highly trained operators. "Once you see you're not needed, you tune out," said Michael Barr, a former Air Force pilot and accident investigat...

Delegates attending the Aircraft Engineers International (AEI) 41st Annual Congress 2013 in Melbourne, Australia have been informed that known but unreported aircraft defects remains the biggest single threat to passenger safety. "Airline passengers are unknowingly facing higher levels of risks due to the dangerous practice of not documenting aircraft...

By: JOAN LOWY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) - Pilots are becoming so reliant on computer systems that do most of the flying in today's airliners that on the rare occasions when something goes wrong, they're sometimes unprepared to take control, according to aviation safety experts and government and industry studies. Increasing automation has bee...

A man is dead after the ultralight aircraft he was piloting crashed in northwest Abbotsford, B.C., on Monday afternoon. The aircraft left Abbotsford airport just before 4:30 p.m. PT on its way to Maple Ridge, but disappeared from control tower radar. Abbotsford police said they were alerted to a possible problem when the aircraft started emitting a bea...