Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Mar 17, 2019
A preliminary analysis of data from Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders provides the strongest evidence yet linking the accident sequence to the October 2018 crash of Lion Air flight JT610.
Mar 15, 2019
Whatever is ultimately concluded about the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crashes, the response to the second accident was an aviation regulatory gamechanger.
Mar 14, 2019
A series of bilateral aviation safety agreements reached by the US and UK governments would ensure that cooperation on air travel and aviation safety remains mostly unchanged in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit.
Mar 14, 2019
French air accident investigation agency BEA has received the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) that were recovered from the Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash site.
Mar 14, 2019
Refined satellite tracking data combined with some non-defined physical evidence from the wreckage of the Ethiopian Airlines crash site prompted Canada, then the US to ground the Boeing 737 MAX.
Jul 19, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden is saying his administration is in the process of working to lift travel bans and should have more definitive information to share in the coming days.
Jul 16, 2021
The Irish government has announced that starting July 19 it will allow non-essential international travel again as it introduces the EU Digital COVID Certificate, designed to facilitate flying within Europe.
Jul 16, 2021
The FAA has pulled the maintenance inspection authority of Rhoades Aviation, the certificate holder that operates Hawaii-based all-cargo carrier Transair, based on findings from a months-long probe into its operation.
Jul 16, 2021
The episode marks the second serious aviation accident in Russia in 10 days.
Jul 16, 2021
In an immediately adopted airworthiness directive (AD) due out July 20, the agency will order Boeing 737 operators to inspect cabin altitude pressure switches more frequently.
Jul 15, 2021
A British Airways 787-8’s inadvertent nose-gear retraction at a London Heathrow gate last month was caused by an incorrectly placed pin during routine maintenance—a design-related risk that regulators flagged in an airworthiness directive that had not been implemented on the aircraft.
Jul 14, 2021
The UK government aims to ensure net zero domestic aviation emissions by 2040, according to a roadmap launched July 14.
Jul 12, 2021
The FAA violated environmental law when it amended flight procedures for aircraft arriving at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) without environmental review, a federal appeals court has ruled.