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NTSB drops Blackberry and switches to iPhone 5 contract
Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry is being dropped by a U.S. government agency that cited the device’s failures. The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates plane accidents,...
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Dreamliner’s short circuit issues are more bad news for Boeing
Dreamliners last November at a Boeing assembly plant in Everett, Washington. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner battery that caught fire earlier this month in Boston shows evidence of short-circuiting and a...
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First case of fatal crash confirmed in texting-while-flying case
The pilot of an emergency medical helicopter flying over Missouri was sending and receiving text messages before a 2011 crash, the first time such distractions have been implicated in a fatal...
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Safety board and TV station apologize for prank in Asiana pilots names
Both a San Francisco Bay Area TV station and the National Transportation Safety Board apologized for their roles in the broadcast Friday of fake, racially insensitive names of the pilots flying...
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Obama Nominates NTSB Chairman for a Third Term
Deborah Hersman, Chairman of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) speaks, as San Francisco Mayor Lee stands beside, during a news conference at San Francisco International Airport. Stephen Lam /...
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NTSB Blames Boeing For Southwest Fuselage Tear
A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report released Friday blamed bad workmanship at Boeing for a 2011 incident when a five-foot-long hole ripped open in the roof of a 737-300 during a...
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Asiana Crash Prompts NTSB Probe Into Whether Automated Cockpits Make Pilots...
U.S. transportation safety officials will hold an investigative hearing December 10-11 on the July crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco, in which three passengers were killed and more...
View ArticleFAA Issues New Pilot Training Rule to Fix Colgan Air Deficiencies
The FAA issued a new rule outlining enhanced pilot training measures in response to the shortcomings uncovered in the NTSB investigation of the 2009 crash of Colgan Air flight 3407. Airlines will have...
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Landings at Wrong Airports Put New Focus On Pilot Inattentiveness
The wrong-airport landing by Southwest Airlines Co., the second incident in two months by U.S. carriers, is heightening regulators’ concerns that pilots are missing obvious visual and instrument cues...
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NTSB Team Just Left the U.S. to Investigate Malaysia Air Disappearance
An aerial view of an oil spill is seen from a Vietnamese Air Force aircraft in the search area for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane. Stringer / ReutersThe U.S. National Transportation Safety Board...
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In Malaysia Air Probe and Elsewhere, Pilot Suicide is a Subject Too...
Royal Malaysian Air Force pilots work in the cockpit of a Malaysian Air Force CN235 aircraft during a search and rescue operation to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in the Straits of...
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Electronics Are Squandering the Navigation Skills of Cruise Operators
Carnival Breeze is taken on a sea trial. CarnivalPR / FlickrCruise operators, like airline pilots, may be relying too heavily on electronics to navigate massive ships, losing the knowledge and ability...
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NTSB Questions Real-World Responses to Cruise Disasters
Captain Francesco Schettino gestures as he stands on the Costa Concordia cruise liner at the Giglio harbour. Allesandro Bianchi / ReutersPresented with videos of evacuation simulations and descriptions...
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Passenger Safety in Bus Accidents Lags 15 Years After Recommendations for...
Sheriff's officers walk past the remains of a tour bus that was struck by a FedEx truck on Interstate 5 Thursday in Orland, Calif., Friday, April 11, 2014. At least ten people were killed and dozens...
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New NTSB Chairman is Licensed Pilot
The NTSB has looked into the question of whether airline automation is lulling pilots into passivity. Pictured, Boeing conducts pilot training on the Boeing 777 full-flight simulator in the UK. /...
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Southwest, Asiana Flights Should Have Aborted Landings, NTSB Documents Show
Officials say the nosegear collapsed on a Southwest aircraft during landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, Monday, July 22, 2013. Bobby Abtahi / Associated PressThe co-pilot of a Southwest Airlines...
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NTSB Probes Delta Flight That Landed at Wrong Airport
A Delta Airbus A320, similar to the one that landed at the Ellsworth Air Force Base, north of Rapid City Regional Airport. DeltaSkift Take: Pilots landing flights at the wrong airport happens more...
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TWA Flight 800: Healing and Heartache 20 Years Later
The TWA Flight 800 Memorial in Shirley, New York is a few hundred feet from the site where the TWA 747 crashed in the ocean in 1996, en route from New York to Paris, killing all 230 people on board....
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NTSB Probes How Air Canada Plane Nearly Landed on Taxiway
An Air Canada Airbus A320 was cleared to land on one of the runways at the San Francisco airport just before midnight on July 7, 2017 when the pilot 'inadvertently' lined up with the taxiway, which...
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Once-Rejected FAA Software Upgrade May Prevent Planes From Landing on Taxiways
An Air Canada Airbus A320 was cleared to land on one of the runways at the San Francisco airport just before midnight on July 7 when the pilot 'inadvertently' lined up with the taxiway, which runs...
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