By ANDY PASZTOR A low-speed ground collision between an Air India Ltd. jet and a JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU +2.15%plane next to a terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport could renew calls for steps to prevent such tarmac hazards. Close The Tennessean/Associated Press The scene of a 2012 ground collision...

The Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) is mulling introducing a future safety certificate, as part of an evaluation and audit scheme for air navigation service providers.   The safety audit is one of a series of actions prompted by proposals made by leaders of the air transport industry at the recent World ATM Congress.   At t...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing additional inspections for Boeing's 747s because of the risk that cracks around a rear door could cause the planes to depressurize in flight.   Boeing agrees with the proposal, which the company already had recommended to airlines and which FAA is publishing Wednesday in the Federal Regis...

A pilot's failure to heed his co-pilot's request for a go-around resulted in a China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft suffering damage when it scraped by antenna beacons near Wuhan airport.   The aircraft, with registration B-5192, was on the Guangzhou-Wuhan route when the incident happened on 25 February. The airframe was built in May 2007...

The Flight Safety Foundation is highlighting rotorcraft topics at Heli-Expo. "Our mission is to be advocates of the best aviation safety practices in the world," said president and CEO Kevin Hiatt. "Based on what we're observing at the foundation, we need to understand more about helicopter operations as a whole and to foster a safety-centri...

By Ashley Halsey III, Mar 04, 2013 07:52 PM EST     The Washington Post Published: March 5 Federal investigators confirmed Monday that errors by the nation’s air traffic controllers have increased sharply, challenging the Federal Aviation Administration’s contention that most of the jump was due to better d...

The IATA says runway excursions, in which an aircraft, such as the one in photo, careens off a runway during landing or takeoff, were the most common type of accident in 2012, accounting for 28 percent of total accidents.   MONTREAL -- The global accident rate for Western-built jets in 2012 was the lowest in aviation history at 0.20, the equivalen...

The overall accident rate for aircraft such as Airbus fell to one in every 5 million flights. AIR safety reached a new high last year with the fewest accidents involving Western-built jets, the International Air Transport Association (Iata) announced today.   * Overall accident rate fell to one in every 5 million flights, down 46 per cent on 2011...

Another balloon belonging to Sky Cruises - preferred carrier for Thomas Cook for several years - crashed into Nile in 2011    Egyptians stand by the site where the hot air balloon plunged to the ground in Luxor. The hot air balloon crash that killed 19 tourists, including two Britons and a UK resident in Luxor, Egypt, was the second crash invo...

An American photographer who was nearby when a hot air balloon exploded in Egypt on Tuesday, says his flight had no safety briefing and flights were cancelled the day before.   The scene soon after take-off, with the balloon that later exploded, shown at top.   Christopher Michel heard the explosion which killed 19 people as the balloon he ...