All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2019 // An Aeroflot PJSC plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 people.Flight SU1492 to Murmansk, a Sukhoi Superjet, suffered an engine fire after...
May 6 2019 // The National Transportation Safety Board will evaluate a range of factors that could help explain how a Boeing 737-800 plane arriving from Cuba slipped into a river after skidding off a runway in Florida, from human error...
May 3 2019 // Reinsurer Swiss Re AG’s reported an unexpected 6 percent fall in quarterly net profit on Friday as claims from large losses offset higher net premiums and a solid return on investments.Net profit came in at $429...
May 1 2019 // Faced with lawsuits over a plane crash half a world away, Boeing Co. is arguing it shouldn’t have to defend itself in a courtroom a short walk from its corporate headquarters.The world’s largest planemaker has...
Apr 30 2019 // Two U.S. senators on Monday urged U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to finalize a long-delayed rule that would require the remote identification of unmanned aircraft systems, or drones.The U.S. Congress tasked the...
Apr 30 2019 // Boeing Co. was sued Monday by two Canadians who lost 10 family members in the March crash of a 737 Max in Ethiopia, adding to the aircraft manufacturer’s legal woes stemming from two deadly crashes by the jet.Among...
Apr 30 2019 // A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the 2015 landslide that collapsed a runway safety overrun at Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Yeager officials say the airport...
Apr 26 2019 // An activist Argo Group shareholder accuses the company of using a corporate jet for 1,500 flights in recent months and questions whether the trips were exclusively for business purposes. So goes the latest salvo fired...
Apr 26 2019 // Just shoot them down?After troublesome drones infiltrated London’s Gatwick airport late last year, disrupting passenger flights and costing potentially millions of pounds in revenue, that was the instinctive question...
Apr 26 2019 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration next month will brief international aviation regulators on the agency’s work evaluating when the Boeing Co. 737 Max can return to service, which some countries have signaled...
Apr 24 2019 // Storms that pummeled North Texas overnight are being blamed for stranding motorists in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and for flooding underground parking lots at a Dallas airport.Dozens of vehicles were submerged in nearly...
Apr 24 2019 // An offshoot of Alphabet Inc.’s Google has become the first drone operator to receive government approval as an airline, an important step that gives it the legal authority to begin dropping products to actual...
Apr 19 2019 // The bill that turned Illinois into the focal point of a bitter debate over car-sharing last year started as a proposal about what happens when a rental car is stolen. The legislation, which would allow rental companies to...
Apr 18 2019 // A board of pilot experts appointed by U.S. aviation regulators has reviewed Boeing Co.’s proposed software fix for the grounded 737 Max aircraft and concluded that pilots won’t need additional simulator...
Apr 15 2019 // Half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional vehicles operated by people, while nearly two-thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous vehicle, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos...
Apr 11 2019 // The crashes of two Boeing Co. 737 Max jets in five months have focused attention on a little-known device that malfunctioned, starting a chain reaction that sent the planes into deadly dives.Pilots have for decades relied...
Apr 8 2019 // Minutes after take-off, the pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX were caught in a bad situation.A key sensor had been wrecked, possibly by hitting a foreign object, according to four aviation experts and two U.S....
Apr 5 2019 // The family of an American woman killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the airline, Boeing Co. and Rosemount Aerospace Inc., which makes a part of the aircraft that is the...
Apr 4 2019 // Ethiopian investigators urged Boeing to review its flight control technology and said pilots of state carrier Ethiopian Airlines had carried out proper procedures in the first public findings on the crash of a 737 MAX jet...
Apr 2 2019 // Half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional vehicles operated by people, while nearly two-thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous vehicle, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos...