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Will Knowing Where MH 370 Ran out of Fuel Help Searchers Find It?
Writing from Canberra -- How many times can investigators slice and dice the electronic back and forth between the missing Malaysia Flight 370 and the inmarsatsatellite system and keep coming up with...
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Hypoxia "Best Fit" in MH 370 Disaster ATSB Says
Infrastructure chief Warren Truss and ATSB chief Martin DolanWriting from Canberra - Despite saying that I don't want to be an "I told you so" I am feeling a bit smug about today's confirmation by the...
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Early Loss of Power Clue to MH 370's Flight into Indian Ocean
Minutes after Malaysia Flight 370 disappeared from military radar in the early morning hours of March 8, the airplane experienced a total loss of power but recovered, according to information released...
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Malaysia Flight 370 Will Share the Fate of TWA 800; Conspiracy Theory Will...
A press briefing in Kuala Lumpur March 2014Nearly 18 years separates today's most-riveting air disaster from the explosion of TWA Flight 800 over the Atlantic on July 17, 1996. They are similar in many...
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A Century Later The Same Old Thrill
The first time I flew in an airplane, I was six. It was an Eastern Airlines flight from Miami to Newark, probably in a DC-8, but I can't say for sure. I do remember that a flight attendant strung a...
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Malaysia Flight 17 May Be Victim of Geopolitical Turbulence
The apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 in the Ukraine today is a shocker for many reasons, not the least of which is that this is a double dose of tragedy for an airline already...
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Airlines and Governments Oblivious to Warnings of MH 17 Disaster
It is missing the point to "blame"Malaysia Airlines for its decision to continue to fly over the conflict zone in the Ukraine despite the disastrous outcome of that choice. At the same time, Malaysia...
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The Accident That Didn't Happen and What it Says About Safety
Airplane crashes make headlines. Missing airliners get the all-news channels into round-the-clock regurgitation of speculation. Missile-downed airliners throw global diplomacy and the entire air travel...
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Delta's 747s to Fly Into the Sunset
In a startling change of plans, Delta Air Lines today confirmed that it will retire four of its Boeing 747s beginning in September. Employees were notified in a memo penned by Glen Hauenstein the...
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No Single Cause for 787 Battery Problem - News? Not Exactly
The Japanese media is out today with news that the Japan Transport Safety Board is preparing a report on what caused the lithium ion batteries on three Boeing 787 Dreamliners to emit smoke (and in one...
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MH 370 Lawyer Behavior Criticized Yet Again
A disciplinary commission in Chicago has upheld a censure decision against a lawyer who just last week came under its scrutiny for her behavior related to Malaysia Flight 370.Monica Ribbeck Kelly, who...
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State Concludes Menzies' Lax Safety Led to Airport Worker Death
Menzies Aviation, the Scotland-based, mega airport services company and hazardous workplace recidivist has been slapped with a $77 thousand dollar fine in California after the state's labor safety...
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Aviation's Effort Combating Laser Attacks Hashtag #Ineffective #Insane
FBI video of laser illumination of an airliner cockpitNo less a brainiac than Albert Einstein could have weighed in on the phenomenally ineffective efforts of American aviation and law enforcement to...
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Ryanair Bad Boy Michael O'Leary Gets Christmas Gift from Boeing
An Irish friend of mine told me many years ago to think twice before dismissing Michael O’Leary, the face and chief executive of Europe's largest low-cost carrier, Ryanair. At the time, O'Leary was...
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Australian Adventurer Illustrates Flying's Glorious Contradictions
I spend so much time writing about the safety and economics of aviation every now and then its good to go back and remember that flying was pioneered by risk takers who were motivated by many things,...
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Boeing, FAA Don't Understand 787 Battery Shortcomings, Japanese Say
Far from dismissing three safety events on Japanese Boeing 787 Dreamliners as mysteries that will go forever unresolved, the nation's safety authority has issued a series of recommendations to Boeing,...
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Readin' Researchin' Writin' and the Tools to Make it Happen
Nils Haupt hosts salon on MH 370 mysteryLast month at the invitation of Nils Haupt, Lufthansa's former head of North American PR, I spoke to a small group of aviation and business writers about the...
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Latest AA Emergency; Sliding Seats, Unhinged Service Doors and the Ongoing...
After three episodes of seats separating from the track on American Airlines flights in 2012, the Dallas-based carrier may have thought its maintenance woes were out of the public eye. Note I did not...
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Hawaiian Weapons in Battle for Market Share; Seaweed and Ukulele Charm
Flight attendant Kama Iona, on an Ohana by Hawaiian flightWhen I peeled back the foil on my in flight meal somewhere over the Pacific between Tokyo and Honolulu, I was not thrilled to discover a thin...
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Pilots Didn't Want to Fly With Capt. Who Crash-Landed SW Flight 345
Flight 345 on the runway NTSB photoThe Southwest Airlines captain who flew a Boeing 737 into the runway nose first at LaGuardia Airport last summer had been on the receiving end of multiple complaints...
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