aviation safety

When you’re taxiing, the small choices you make with your feet matter almost as much as the decisions you make with your hands — and one persistent pilot habit, riding the brakes, quietly costs safety, money, and control. AOPA’s recent training tip — “Easy on the brakes” — is a concise...

A Cessna Citation business jet registered to an LLC tied to retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle crashed while attempting to return to Statesville Regional Airport (SVH) on the morning of December 18, 2025, producing a large post‑impact fire and multiple fatalities; within hours several news...

Few images can conjure a sharper contrast with the cutting edge than a modern U.S. air traffic control room—one of the busiest nexuses of aviation in the world—relying on floppy disks and Windows 95 to guide aircraft safely across the skies. It is a juxtaposition both reassuring and unnerving...

Attention, WindowsForum members! Big news unfolds in the skies above your head—and no, it’s not an alien invasion. Certain versions of the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) II, particularly versions 7.1 and earlier, have been flagged with two vulnerabilities capable of...

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Hi I'm posting this so that if I turns out to be right I have proof I knew it when it happened. LOL There has been a lot of speculation and most of it is crazy. I've been a pilot since 1972. I sold my airplane and haven't done much flying since the early nineties but I still have friends who...

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We told you about the high flying Hong Kong Airlines cabin crew being taught kick-@$$ kung fu skills - now see them in action. The stewardesses are taking classes in deadly Wing Chun, which teaches students how to knock an aggressor out cold within seconds. Airline bosses say their...

It may not be an idea that'll take off in Britain – but Hong Kong Airlines has introduced kung fu lessons for its cabin crews and it's proved a soaraway success. Tutoring in wing chun martial arts – which is close-range combat involving striking and grappling - has become mandatory so...

Two Navy helicopter pilots from North Island Naval Air Station have been grounded over a YouTube video that allegedly shows them dipping the $33 million aircrafts into Lake Taho Quote from the article: In the video taken Sept. 14, both helicopters hit the water and one seems to spin out...

An Ohio family recently learned their 6-year-old daughter was on the Department of Homeland Security’s 'no-fly' list, Fox8.com reported. Alyssa Thomas, 6, was traveling with her parents when a ticket agent notified the family she was on the list of restricted fliers. "We were, like...