Acting on Dutch investigators conclusions about 2009 Turkish crash

Right now, the majority of aviation development in India is like the tango; two steps forward, one back, stop and gaze at your partner, wait for applause, then repeat.

Expanding fast but some say they have overextended themselves

Daniele romitiAgustaWestland CEO Age: 55 Birthplace: Genoa, Italy Education: Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering from Turin Polytechnic University

Cockpit- and flight-data recording comes to commercial fleets

Air Costa's big order for Embraer jets could signal that India's air transport sector is turning to secondary markets for growth

Nav Canada is close to completing the nationwide rollout of a controller-pilot data link communications (CPDLC) system that is among the most advanced uses of this technology in any domestic airspace. After deploying CPDLC to six out of seven of its domestic flight information regions (FIR) under a phased introduction, Nav Canada is progressively broadening the message sets to cover a greater range of operational needs. At the same time, the company is seeing a steady increase in airline usage and CPDLC equipage rates as carriers recognize its benefits.

Assad Kotaite, a Lebanese diplomat who served in key positions at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for more than three decades, died Feb. 27 of cancer in Montreal. He was 89.