More details are emerging about yesterday’s in-flight freakout. Clayton Osbon, the flight captain whose erratic behavior forced an emergency landing in Texas, began “speaking incoherently” in the ...

The photo outraged India's aviation community, with one retired pilot calling it "inexplicable" behavior. Indian airline SpiceJet grounded the two pilots, adding that disciplinary action would follow.

An American Airlines flight preparing to take off from Honduras was grounded Tuesday night after a passenger rushed into the cockpit and damaged some controls, CBS Miami reports. American Airlines ...

A transatlantic flight was forced to divert to the Republic of Ireland because a pilot spilled a cup of coffee on the aircraft's controls, it has emerged. According to the Air Accidents Investigation ...

American F-16 Fighting Falcons are getting a new cockpit management unit (CMU) from Avalex as part of the U.S. Air Force’s mobile user objective system (MUOS) program to upgrade the so-called Viper.

Pilots have a demanding job, and are expected to take regular breaks to ensure their performance when it counts. However, two pilots for Indian airline SpiceJet were grounded recently after taking a ...

In a chilling revelation from the preliminary investigation into last month’s tragic Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, authorities have zeroed in on a key cockpit component—the fuel control ...

There is no Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) that specifies which seat a solo pilot must occupy in a side-by-side airplane. Flight school rules, such as "solo flight from left seat only," are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Charlotte-based reporter Ted Reed covers airlines and airline labor. As airlines prepare to return the Boeing BA 737 Max to ...

The widebody recovery has arrived with force, but the clearest transformation is happening not in the cabin or the cargo hold ...

Boeing Co. has been forced to ground its 737 MAX aircraft after two of the jetliners were recently involved in deadly crashes in Indonesia and in Ethiopia. Much of the investigative focus has been on ...