Almost inevitably, the operational and economic havoc wrought by the pandemic was, sooner or later, going to show up as ripples in air safety. The only real question was how large those disturbances ...

Experts are tentatively blaming the two recent crashes of Boeing's 737 Max planes on the overautomation of a Boeing flight system that prevented the pilots from manually controlling the jets' forced ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Long gone are the leather jackets, goggles, and silk scarves flung over the shoulders of aviators who ...

The ability of the Federal Aviation Administration to ascertain how effective pilots are in the cockpit is sorely lacking, according to a new study published by the Department of Transportation’s ...

Do you have the quick reactions and cool head required to pilot an A320 full of passengers? Amid an ongoing pilot shortage and drive to get more people in the cockpit, one budget airline has sought to ...

There are pilots, and there’s Italian Dario Costa. The Red Bull athlete, holder of no less than five Guinness World Records, is known worldwide for his precision flying and a set of skills that have ...