New technology allowing audio of plane crashes to be extracted from still images has prompted the National Transportation ...

The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to ...

Modern aircraft complexity and high flying costs necessitate simulators as a practical and safer alternative for maintaining pilot proficiency. Simulators vary widely in cost and fidelity, from ...

Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

The short answer is yes, but the real answer is no. While cockpit doors before the 9/11 attacks were designed to provide a barrier between pilots and passengers for ...

Plans also call for the plane's avionics system to automatically convert all radio communications to text displayed on a cockpit screen. That way, the pilot will have a transcript of all the ...