Pilot Error Blamed for Flight 587 Crash
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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
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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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Pilot error caused a China Airlines plane to flip while landing in Hong Kong and burst into flames in 1999, killing three people and seriously injuring 50, investigators said Friday.
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A single-engine plane tried to take off from the wrong runway less than three months after a deadly crash in which a jet mistakenly took off on the same strip, the Federal Aviation Administration told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Blog: Computer failure blamed for temporary grounding of flights
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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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The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to blame both the pilot and Airbus for the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York.
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An official inquiry into the crash of a Russian passenger plane over Ukraine says pilot error is to blame
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Pilot error in bad weather led an Armenian plane to crash with the loss of 113 lives, Russian officials say.
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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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Chinese authorities were investigating the cause of a China Eastern Airlines commuter jet crash Sunday that killed all 53 people onboard the aircraft.
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The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, the second-worst in American history, was caused by the pilot&#39;s &quot;unnecessary and excessive&quot; use of the rudder.
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Investigators in the Comair jet crash that killed 49 people are looking into whether changes made to a taxiway during a repaving project a week ago confused the pilot and caused him to turn onto the wrong runway.
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Airline safety is being compromised by pilot fatigue, a BBC News investigation finds.
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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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The pilot of a military Black Hawk helicopter that crashed in fog, killing seven people including a brigadier general, had good visibility at takeoff but asked air controllers about instrument flight minutes before the crash, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.