Plane Crashes

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...

TWA Flight 800 Crash Families Gathering For 13-Year Anniversary (PHOTOS)

Posted 08.17.2009 | New York


SLIDESHOW FROM GETTY, TEXT FROM AP SHIRLEY, N.Y. (AP) -- Relatives of victims of the TWA Flight 800 disaster are gathering to mark the 13th annive...

Air France Bodies Flown To Brazil To Be Identified

AP | MARCO SIBAJA and GREG KELLER | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


RECIFE, Brazil — Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on ...

The Three Myths About Plane Crashes

Ben Sherwood | Posted 02.15.2009 | Home


Ben Sherwood

How can you survive a plane crash? After going through the FAA's plane crash survival school in Oklahoma City and interviewing many experts and survivors of plane crashes, here are four key tips.

Fatal Airline Crashes In US Down 65 Percent In Past Decade

New York Times | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


After two infamous crashes in 1996 that together killed 375 people, a White House commission told the airline industry and its regulators to reduce th...