WASHINGTON --French prosecutors' assertion that this week's air crash of a German airliner into a rugged mountainside was a deliberate act of the co-pilot points to the possible need for a third pilot ...

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

Southwest Airlines is rolling out new technology in its Boeing 737 fleet in hopes of making takeoffs and landings safer. "Traffic doubles every 15 years…it is really seconds from disaster…We have a ...

Linux Cockpit is a web-based interface that provides graphical administrative access to a system. Here's a look at what it allows you to control. If you haven’t tried the relatively new Linux Cockpit, ...

Airline pilots are often exhausted. An extreme example happened in 2008, when a pilot and a co-pilot both fell asleep at the controls, missing their landing in Hawaii — earning pilot’s license ...

MANASSAS, Va. — From the outside, the single-engine Cessna Caravan that took off from a small airport here on Monday looked unremarkable. But inside the cockpit, in the right seat, a robot with ...

A company dispatcher who was seated in the cockpit jump seat as Southwest Airlines Flight 4013 landed at the wrong Missouri airport has been placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the ...