The movie Sully, out today, tells the story of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger who landed an Airbus A320-214 in New York’s Hudson River. To accident experts, this was no crash landing.
Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation e Tim Dean, The Conversation
In light of another tragic airline crash, it’s natural to ask whether air travel is becoming less safe. In fact, air travel is safer than at almost any point in history.
Preparing for bodies – Emergency vehicles are lined up near the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 Flight 4U9525.
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The European Alps where Flight 4U 9525 crashed – killing 150 onboard – are known by pilots to be a hazardous place. Just one of many things a pilot must consider during any air emergency.
From Abu Dhabi, Solar Impulse 2 will travel east to India, China, and across the Pacific.
Solar Impulse
A major change is coming to our skies. From next March, pilots will be able to determine their own routes and plan to fly direct from point to point. Currently, flights must plan to follow explicitly defined…
A co-pilot on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (seen here in 2010) died after the spacecraft crashed in the Mojave desert.
EPA/Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic
Tragically, the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Mojave desert during a test flight on Friday, killing one pilot and injuring another. It is not clear what went wrong, and the coming…
Watching video on your smartphone is fine during take off and landing - so long as your device is in flight mode.
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Australia is playing catch up by allowing plane passengers to keep their mobile phone switched on – albeit in flight mode only – during take off and landing. But many have probably already done this. A…
The missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft pictured in 2013.
Flickr/Paul Rowbotham
The introduction of constant tracking of commercial aircraft during the whole journey has been raised by Malaysian authorities in a preliminary report into missing flight MH370. It’s been two months now…
The three variants of the F-35 Joinst Strike Fighter described as fifth-generation aircraft.
Joint Strike Fighter
Any conversation about Australia’s commitment to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter refers to it as a fifth-generation fighter aircraft. But what exactly is a fifth-generation aircraft, and why is it important…
Two F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in action.
AAP Image/Department of Defence, Lockheed Martin
Now the Australian Government has committed to a further 58 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft it is time to ask whether this is a good idea, will we be getting value for money – and will the JSF…
Australia now plans to have 72 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from Lockheed Martin.
AAP/Lockheed Martin, Matthew Short
The Australian Government’s mission to upgrade the defence force fleet of ageing aircraft with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been controversial since it began more than a decade ago. Australia formally…
More than 100 vessels and aircraft from eight countries looking for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on Saturday with 239 people on board.
EPA/Ahman Yusni
The missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has some similarities to the disappearance of Pan Am flight 944, which disappeared into the Pacific Ocean almost 50 years ago. Late in the afternoon of November…
Looking for flight MH370.
EPA/Malaysian Maritime Agency
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 – with 239 people on board – is unusual in that two days after the plane lost communication there is no reliable evidence of debris. No radio calls were…