NTSB: Wrong runway not only mistake
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The Comair Flight 5191 crew began the day by powering up the wrong plane. Then they took off down the wrong runway. The lone air traffic controller, working alone in violation of FAA policy, had turned his back to do other duties. Investigators are uncovering a series of mistakes before the plane crashed, killing 49 people.
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Mechanical failure 'unthinkable' Experts have suggested that the simultaneous failure of both engines of the BA 777 which last week crash-landed at Heathrow must have been caused by a computer glitch, the Times reports.â¦
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HALIFAX -- The cargo jet that crashed in flames off the end of a Halifax International Airport runway last week had two engines replaced in the weeks leading up to the accident, investigators revealed yesterday.
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The type of Boeing aircraft that crash-landed short of the runway at London Heathrow this month has had six other engine failures in the past decade, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
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Investigators on Monday were trying to determine how two new aircraft equipped with the latest anti-collision technology clipped each other in flight. A crash that followed killed 155 people, the nation's worst air disaster.
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The lone air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some "administrative duties" as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said Tuesday.
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THE co-pilot of a plane which crashed in New York in November 2001 made a fatal error when using the aircraftâs rudder, US investigators have found.
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On a clear day in Los Angeles last August there was a close call that almost ended in disaster. Tuesday, the NTSB released animation and radio transmissions, revealing a Southwest 737 cleared
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Crew error was to blame for a Russian passenger jet crash last year that killed all 170 on board, a Russian transport commission said Saturday.
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U.S. safety officials said on Friday they were investigating a runway incident in Florida this week in which two jetliners -- one landing and another that wandered into its path -- missed each other by less than 100 feet.
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The crash of a capsule last month was likely to have been caused by a design flaw that led to the sensors that were to deploy the capsule's parachutes being pointed in the wrong direction, a NASA investigatory panel reported.
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A near-collision between a jumbo jet  and another plane in August prompted U.S. safety investigators  on Tuesday to classify as unacceptable aviation regulators'  efforts to improve runway safety.
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Six nuclear warheads on air-launched cruise missiles were mistakenly carried on a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana last week, prompting a major investigation, the U.S. Air Force has confirmed.
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An airport where a plane took off from the wrong runway and crashed last year had put together a plan to help it comply with federal guidelines on staffing in air control towers but never enacted it, a staffing study showed.
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All Nippon Airways hasn't yet figured out the exact cause of a systems failure that prevented passengers from checking in on Sunday, causing the delay or cancellation of hundreds of flights.
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American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York City neighborhood in November 2001, killing 265 people, because the co-pilot improperly used the rudder to try to steady the plane, federal safety investigators ruled Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON A dispute between American Airlines and Airbus Industrie over doomed Flight 587 is expected to play out today. The National Transportation Safety Board meets this morning to discuss its findings.