The photo outraged India's aviation community, with one retired pilot calling it "inexplicable" behavior. Indian airline SpiceJet grounded the two pilots, adding that disciplinary action would follow.

Avionics used to be the realm of reliable but incremental upgrades — new radar here, a better flight management system there. Today, […] ...

A transatlantic flight was forced to divert to the Republic of Ireland because a pilot spilled a cup of coffee on the aircraft's controls, it has emerged. According to the Air Accidents Investigation ...

The widebody recovery has arrived with force, but the clearest transformation is happening not in the cabin or the cargo hold ...

Pilots have a demanding job, and are expected to take regular breaks to ensure their performance when it counts. However, two pilots for Indian airline SpiceJet were grounded recently after taking a ...

In a chilling revelation from the preliminary investigation into last month’s tragic Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, authorities have zeroed in on a key cockpit component—the fuel control ...

There is no Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) that specifies which seat a solo pilot must occupy in a side-by-side airplane. Flight school rules, such as "solo flight from left seat only," are ...

Boeing Co. has been forced to ground its 737 MAX aircraft after two of the jetliners were recently involved in deadly crashes in Indonesia and in Ethiopia. Much of the investigative focus has been on ...

A future MQ-25A Stingray ground control station will likely look more like a radar operator's station in an E-2 Hawkeye than the cockpit of a fighter or even a remotely piloted (RPV) aircraft ...

"With the current proposed regulations called MOSAIC, they're including provisions for learning in aircraft with simplified control schemes like ours, where you would basically get not necessarily a ...

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