Urban Legend Debunked: A330 Cockpit Video Shows Airbuses Do Not Fly Themselves
Here's a neat video from the cockpit of an A330-200 performing a nonprecision VOR approach to JFK's runway 22L on a windy day.
Delta 737 Slides Off Taxiway in Atlanta
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-700 suffered "significant damage" early Tuesday morning when it rolled off a taxiway and down a hill in Atlanta. Only two maintenance workers were on the plane at the time and both escaped without i...
Why are Airlines Continually Ordering Larger Aircraft?
The reason, as always, comes down to the most important question an airline has to answer: “what makes the most profit?”
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Reaches Firm Configuration
Boeing announced on Thursday that the completion of firm configuration for the 787-9 Dreamliner had been reached after years of collaboration with airline customers and partners to determine the optimal configuration for the ne...
Investigators Successfully Recover All Data from Air France Flight 447 Recorders
In the biggest breakthrough yet toward discovering the cause of the crash, French investigators have successfully downloaded the entire record of data from the recently retrieved flight data and voice recorders of Air France Fl...