Flight Safety

Northwest Pilots' Licenses Are Revoked By FAA

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneap...

Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Minneapolis Airport Say They Were Working On Laptops

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their p...

Rule For New Planes Means More Airbags

NPR | By Adam Hochberg | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home


AmSafe is supplying the product to most major U.S. airlines to help comply with a new government crash standard. The rule has been phased in slowly ov...