June 17, 2013, 10:30 AM Will the aviation world ever be truly seamless? This was the question being asked at last week's annual EASA/FAA conference, held here in Paris. The goal seems as far away as ever with the U.S. and Europe struggling to fund ambitious new ATM systems. However, it was not missed on panelists that it is the developing world that might...

Pilots protest proposed new regulations outside the European Aviation Safety Agency in May 14, 2012 in Germany there are a lot of obstacles for airlines to navigate in India as they attempt to expand operations and turn profits.   Sleeping pilots is one of the more unexpected ones.   India - revealed by the UN this year as among the 13 worst ...

Chino Valley firefighters inspect the damage to a Bombardier Challenger jet aircraft that crashed into the side of a airplane hangar at Encore Jet Center at the Chino Airport at 6:17p.m. Thursday evening June 13, 2013. CHINO - A small passenger jet struck a hangar Thursday evening at Chino Airport, leading to concerns of a fuel leak and evacuations of n...

Airbus's new A350 plane is due to take off on its much-anticipated maiden flight Friday, a milestone for an aircraft the firm hopes will help close the gap with rival Boeing in the lucrative long-haul market. Weather permitting, the next-generation plane will lift off from the southwestern city of Toulouse at 0800GMT with six people on board -a British an...

DENVER -- Authorities say gusty winds sweeping through the Denver area Saturday caused several hot air balloon crashes that injured at least five people. The four unrelated accidents all happened within miles and about an hour of each other. In rural Boulder County, Sheriff's Deputy Mitch Rosebrough said a dozen people were riding in a balloon that cam...

Thursday, June 6, 2013 FAA Plans for Full ADS-B Ground Support in 2014 By Woodrow Bellamy III FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said the ground infrastructure for the nation's automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) will be ready for operations by next year.     (An ITT Exelis ADS-B Ground Station. Photo, cour...

The maintenance failure which caused a British Airways jet to carry out an emergency landing should force Airbus to consider redesigning its aircraft, the leading safety adviser in global aviation has warned. Gunther Matschnigg, senior vice-president for safety at the International Air Transport Association, also warned airline BA should review its main...

The Government Accounting Office (GAO) reported last week that Harrington Bishop, a former FAA Aviation Safety Inspector, was sentenced on April 18 in U.S. District Court, for accepting illegal gratuities. The court sentenced Bishop, who was once stationed at the Teterboro Flight Standards Safety District Office, to a year and a day in prison, a $5,000 fin...

Workers examine the British Airways plane after the emergency landing at Heathrow. The UK air accident investigation board (AAIB) has denied reports from US safety authorities that the British Airways jet which made an emergency landing last week at Heathrow did so with one engine shut down and the other on fire. The AAIB, which is expected to publish ...

The                         Civil Aviation Authority is seeking the views of New                         Zealand's aviation ...