More than planes are taking "flight" at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Millions of calculations are whizzing inside of the ...

A routine A320 training flight in Tallinn, Estonia, spiraled into a cascade of control failures, engine fire, and a desperate emergency landing. SmartLynx Estonia Flight 9001 exposed how a hidden ...

Shortly after midnight on March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members left Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia on what was supposed to be a routine, five-and-a-half-hour ...

If the performance calculations had used the correct weight, the pilots’ flightbags and the flight-management computer would have returned valid V-speeds – around 172kt and 181kt for V1 and rotation ...

Months before 9/11 a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 and nearly crashed it into the Sahara. Everyone survived but no one quite recovered. How do you measure the cost of a disaster that didn’t ...

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. Holly Williams is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in the network's ...

In 2005, I was embedded as an independent journalist with a platoon of Marines with an attachment of Afghan security forces in the Hindu Kush, just a few miles from the Pakistani border. I was about ...

In 2022, NASA dropped an aircraft cabin (with six crash dummies) from 35 ft. The cabin was destroyed but showed the need to improve computer models. In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft ...

An unusually long and large flight restriction has been placed on the Chicago area for several days, a move officials say was sparked by a "credible threat" of attacks on law enforcement. The Federal ...

How calm, cool, and utterly chill is the crew of NASA’s first Moon mission in more than half a century? Let’s start with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. “You know me, personally, I hope to take a ...

Abstract: The automated evaluation of flight maneuver performance in civilian and military aircraft enhances pilot proficiency and aircraft safety. In this article, we present Aura, an inaircraft ...