On This Day in Aviation History: December 24th
New York's Idlewild Airport is renamed to honor the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy, Indian Airlines Flight 814 and Air France Flight 8969 are hijacked, LANSA Flight 508 crashes with a girl surviving the 2-mile ...
Do Commercial Pilots Really “Suck” at Manual Flying?
Do pilots really “suck” at manual flying, as a soon-to-be-released FAA report suggests? Airbus Captain and author Eric “Cap’n Aux” Auxier explores this disturbing possibility.
Seven Killed As American Helicopter Crashes In Peru
Five Americans were among the seven killed when a Columbia Helicopters BV-234 Chinook went down in central Peru.
Meet Afghanistan’s First Air Traffic Controllers
After completing a training program created by the Afghan government, the ICAO and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan's first fully-qualified air traffic controllers are manning the tower at Kabul...
Southwest Airlines Reports 6.4% August Traffic Boost
Southwest Airlines Co. on Wednesday reported a 2.1 percentage points increase in load factor for the month of August, with a 6.4% rise in traffic compared to the same month last year.