Flying Lessons

Men from Manchester held by Kenya photo courtesy of The Star There's something very strange about the news out of Nairobi in which ...

Full disclosure: The Crash Detectives , my own book on the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370, will be published by Penguin in ...

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...

Instructor Ron Diedrichs with EVA cadets You got to hand it to the folks at Taiwan’s EVA Airlines they’re taking the hypoxia threat ser...

N671US in Shannon days ago. Photo courtesy Kevin Corry This just in: The Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 N664US which was heavily damaged by ...

Tyler addresses the executives Photo by IATA Writing from Miami - It seems strange to me that under the guidance of the soft spoken an...

What forces of fate allow thousands of people to cross the same terrain without seeing the crashed airplane that John Weisheit discovered ...

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...

Hawaiian Airlines at New York For every up there's a down, and no industry knows that better than the airlines. No, I'm not...

The Facebook page of Global Girl See previous post on this subject here . The owner of the flight school where popular online aviatrix...

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

Now. While we are celebrating the Wright Brothers historic flight 111 years ago, let me tell you the story of two other brothers; pilots a...

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 ...

Nils Haupt hosts salon on MH 370 mystery Last month at the invitation of Nils Haupt ,  Lufthansa 's former head of North American ...

I spend so much time writing about the safety and economics of aviation every now and then its good to go back and remember that flying wa...

A disciplinary commission in Chicago has upheld a censure decision against a lawyer who just last week came under its scrutiny for he...

In a startling change of plans, Delta Air Lines today confirmed that it will retire four of its Boeing 747 s beginning in September. Empl...

Airplane crashes make headlines. Missing airliners get the all-news channels into round-the-clock regurgitation of speculation. Missile-do...

It is missing the point to "blame" Malaysia Airlines for its decision to continue to fly over the conflict zone in the Ukrain...