In the wake of the Asiana Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport (“SFO”), the National Transportation Safety Administration (“NTSB”) recommended on Tuesday that the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) convene a special design certi …
On Friday, June 20, news reports indicated that, according to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the on-going search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will move to an new area approximately five hundred miles to the south of what was most recently …
The National Transportation Safety Board held a public meeting today in Washington, D.C. to present its final findings and probable cause statement regarding the Crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which crashed in San Francisco on July 6, 2013. A cop …
The Montreal Convention is a multi-national treaty that governs the rights of passengers aboard international flights where the country of origin and the country of destination are both signatories to the treaty. Most developed (and many lesser develop …
Injuries and deaths from propeller strikes are not widespread, but unfortunately they do happen. Most recently, a long-time employee of a skydiving company in Ohio died as a result of severe head injuries she suffered when she walked into a spinning pr …
It isn’t just passenger planes missing one another. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”), a pilot of a U.S. Airways flight recently reported a near mid-air collision with an unmanned aircraft, also known as a drone. Over a year ago, …
Two planes that nearly collided last month at Newark International Airport were stunningly close. One plane, a United Airlines 737, was landing when a United Express flight was taking off on an intersecting runway. The ascending United Express Flight b …
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8, 2014. Despite the passage of nearly three months, the investigators have not found any trace of wreckage. Most recently, the focus of the search has been on the southern Indian Ocean. The key in isol …
All airlines lose baggage or have baggage delays. This is a fact, unfortunate as it is, and this post addresses what you should do when it happens to you. Why this happens is another question, and it is one being asked more frequently now that the airl …
The Wright Amendment, passed in 1979, is about to expire, and this will mean a big change for air traffic in Dallas. The Wright Amendment currently restricts flights in and out of Dallas Love Field. When passed, it was designed to protect the relativel …