The crash of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad last month, which killed 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground, has reignited a long-standing debate in aviation circles: should commercial ...

In the aftermath of a plane crash, a key milestone for the investigators tasked with finding out what exactly happened and why is that of locating the aircraft's 'black boxes.' Evidence from these ...

The deadly Air India crash has reignited a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over cockpit video recorders. International Air Transport Association head Willie Walsh, a former airline pilot, ...

FAA final rule moves US cockpit voice recorders from 2 hours to 25 on newly built aircraft, improving investigations and raising privacy and retrofit costs.

As investigators strive to determine the reason for a fuel cut-off switch activation which preceded the Air India Boeing 787 crash, the accident could revive calls for cockpit video to supplement ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has published a final rule requiring most newly manufactured large aircraft in the United ...