The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 242 people bound for Britain's Gatwick Airport began losing altitude seconds after ...

Autopilot: A computerised system that maintains an aircraft’s flight path by automatically adjusting control surfaces, thereby reducing pilot workload and enhancing safety. Flight Management ...

The nation’s air traffic control system, responsible for ensuring the safe passage of nearly 3 million travelers a day, has ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) relies on a lot of old technology to keep its air traffic control systems up and ...

The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from ...

President Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration was grilled by senators Wednesday on critical ...

Investigators believe the Air India Boeing Dreamliner had its emergency-power generator operating when it crashed last week ...