Flying Lessons

Harrison Ford and cast Disney handout photo  Star Wars dominated the end-of-the-year entertainment news. Harrison Ford, the ageless supe...

One of my Facebook messages today Not long after my eyes opened this morning I enjoyed reading some of the early birthday greetings pos...

A350 arrives in Brazil photo courtesy TAM What a difference a week makes. Early this morning, TAM Airlines happily welcomed its first A...

The blast that took down a Russian Airbus A321 over the Sinai last month, had to be triggered by a bomb, an experienced explosives expert ...

Too often air travel is an antiseptic experience for the passenger as we sit in tile-floored, waiting rooms, our heads down and our minds...

Platinum Jet crash at Teterboro in 2005 Who is an air crash investigator? On those television documentaries, there’s always some govern...

The section of wing found on Reunion Island in the South Indian Ocean last week came from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, or at ...

In the past I’ve referred to them as the kids who couldn’t get a date for the prom. Now, I bet the engineers at the British satellite com...

F-WWCF the Airbus A350 MSN #2 in Newark on Thursday The Airbus A350 XWB that flew into Newark Liberty International Airport this week on...

Air Methods helicopter prior to crash that killed 4 in 2011 The attention of the flying public may be riveted to events like Malaysia 37...

BEA's chief Remi Jouty As if awaking from a stunned stupor, (incapacitation with breathing perhaps?) the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d...

CVR as recovered from Germanwings flight BEA photo Investigators looking to discover why Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 flew into a mounta...

9M-MRO in Los Angeles photo by Jay Davis The adage that if you repeat a lie often enough people will start to believe it, can be appropr...

Writing a book is not all about writing. This weekend, I've added   Boeing Versus Airbus , the 2007 John Newhouse book about, yeah, t...

When Air Asia first learned it had lost flight 8501, en route from Surabaya to Singapore on December 28th, the airline was somewhat prepa...

Bookending the aviation news for the year 2014 is the Dreamliner battery; the sizzling lithium ion-flavored power source that  I suggested...

The Air Asia communication executives sat at a round table with chaos all around, trying to concentrate on banging out a press release, tw...

Firefighters at Logan Airport NTSB photo How many ways did the company producing the lithium ion batteries on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner...

A UA 787-9 photo courtesy United Passengers on United Flight 98 from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia on October 26, participated in ...

After three episodes of seats separating from the track on American Airlines flights in 2012, the Dallas-based carrier may have thought its...