Flying Lessons

Damage at the airport in Brussels Via Twitter @infos140 A bomb in the departure area of Brussels Airport that killed 11 people this morn...

Two stories with big consequences for the participants and lessons for the rest of us were in the news this week. After years of fighting ...

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 ...

UK Prime Minister Cameron Government photo All over the news today is the story of the UK and Irish governments canceling flights out of...

Andreas Lubitz from Facebook The chilling news that pilot Andreas Lubitz had already tried the controlled descent into terrain of an air...

Astute readers of Flying Lessons may remember that in the fall of 2010, I published here a series of posts about the week I spent as a st...

Airlines got a $373 million dollar gift from the government when it eliminated the Aviation Security Infrastructure Fee last year. What w...

OSHA photo of the graffiti How long does it take to undo years of effort to improve the way flight crews communicate and share safety-re...

FBI video of laser illumination of an airliner cockpit No less a brainiac than Albert Einstein could have weighed in on the phenomenally...

The apparent shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 in the Ukraine today is a shocker  for many reasons, not the least of whic...

Writing from Canberra -- How many times can investigators slice and dice the electronic back and forth between the missing Malaysia Flig...

The aircraft arriving at LAX in 2013 courtesy Jay Davis The recent release of communication data from missing Malaysia Flight 370, show...

With the latest news, that an Australian ship may have detected the sound of pinging from the black boxes on the missing Malaysia Airlines...

Writing from Kuala Lumpur -- The case of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has taken another unexpected turn now that searchers i...

Writing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- In the afternoon, hundreds of reporters assemble in the ground floor ballroom of the Sama-Sama Ho...

Capt. Murat Akpinar The kidnapping on Friday morning of two Turkish airline pilots in Lebanon is upsetting on a number of levels, beyond...

Does it strike anyone else as odd that of all the foreign airports in all the world, Abu Dhabi International would be one of the few to of...

Flight attendants may not rank up there with firefighters or police officers in terms of dangerous jobs, but the story on Wednesday that a...

Contending for eww story of the month, and certainly a contender with this event in Sharjah for  the 2012 "say WHAT ?" award, an...

UPDATE: Babbitt resigns at 5:00pm EST Excerpt from his statement "I am unwilling to let anything cast a shadow on the outstanding wo...