NTSB Cites Lax Safety Controls, Pilot Error in Ariz. Drone Crash
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Sophisticated computer systems on a 10,000-pound unmanned drone were no match for its pilot's failure to follow a checklist when confronted with a computer glitch.
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Los Angeles&#39; major airports came to a near stop yesterday after radio and radar equipment failed at a key air-traffic-control center in the Mojave Desert, forcing the diversion of up to 800 commercial airline flights bound for Southern California and
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A federal agency blames improper rudder use and poor Airbus design for the Flight 587 crash that killed 265 in 2001. WASHINGTON - American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York City
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The U.S. military said it was checking reports that a helicopter, possibly a Chinook transport aircraft, had either crashed or made an emergency landing near Baghdad on Wednesday.
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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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Beginning today U.S. pilots will have more reliable information about the threat of icing&#151;an airborne condition that has caused hundreds of plane-crash fatalities.
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Control cables were broken in the NASCAR plane that crashed into two suburban homes, killing five people earlier this month, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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Comair sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday, saying the agency was negligent in having only one air traffic controller on duty last year when a plane took off from the wrong runway and crashed, killing 49 people.
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Unmanned aircraft are to help scientists with research flights that are too dangerous or difficult for human pilots.
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The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, the second-worst aviation accident in American history, was
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United Air Lines said an operational error during routine system testing of its computer system was the preliminary root cause of a computer failure that forced the airline to cancel and delay U.S. flights yesterday.
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The Hendrick Motorsports plane that crashed Oct. 24 and killed all 10 aboard missed the approach to the airport and then failed to climb before crashing into a mountain, according to a preliminary report Friday.
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PATRICK SPRINGS, Va. Airport officials in Virginia say pilots of at least 20 other planes decided it was too dangerous to land at the airport near where a Hendrick Motorsports plane went down.
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The cockpit voice recorder from a private jet involved in Brazil's worst ever air crash and dialogues among traffic controllers point to a series of errors and misunderstandings that may have contributed to the accident, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.
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A plane crash at a British airport two years ago that killed five Americans was caused by the crew's failure to de-ice the wings before takeoff, an official accident report said Friday.
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The co-pilot of an American Airlines  jet that crashed nearly three years ago in New York and killed  265 people lost control of the Airbus plane after mishandling  the rudder, investigators concluded on Tuesday.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 30 -- As federal authorities continue their investigation into Sunday's Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, independent safety experts said it is likely that a series of seemingly small events and decisions -- rather than any large single blunder -- led the pilots to...