Aviation safety is about more than pilot skill—boardroom decisions and regulatory failures play a key role in preventing ...

The European Commission has published the first-ever ground handling safety regulations, bringing this area of aviation ...

Lawmakers and aviation organizations grappled with whether the US has maintained its title as “the gold standard” when it ...

A union representing approximately 400 Federal Aviation Administration personnel fired on February 28 says 130 were essential ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday issued two “urgent” safety recommendations after discovering ...

Current airport flight safety practices create an "intolerable safety risk" that could be eliminated by changing allowed ...

If you are worried about flying, well, more than usual, because of the hundreds of jobs that were eliminated at the Federal ...

Aviation safety is a continuous improvement process, with a strong culture of reporting and learning from mistakes. After two high-profile commercial plane crashes at U.S. airlines this year ...

March 4 (UPI) --The nation's air traffic control system is obsolete and understaffed, which significantly degrades safety, aviation industry experts told the House Aviation Subcommittee on Tuesday ...

For decades, US officials liked to say the nation’s aviation system was the “gold standard” for safety. A House hearing on Tuesday cast doubt on that assertion. At the hearing, on problems ...

Aviation leaders told the House subcommittee Tuesday that staffing cuts and uncertainty over a potential federal government shutdown is putting further pressure on an already strained air traffic ...