The decades-long search for Amelia Earhart, her aircraft, and her navigator Fred Noonan, has been both controversial and costly.
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Various failure scenarios have been aired as the Boeing 787 crash investigation continues.
Analysis of data from underwater microphones could help researchers discover the fate of missing flight MH370.
Despite advanced technology and search techniques the rugged seafloor can hide objects much larger than a plane.
A pilot and researcher knows that airplanes are full of sensors – and finds a way onboard computers can use the data to detect equipment failure and tell pilots what’s a real emergency and what’s not.
A “lack of evidence” didn’t help investigators find any cause for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, but a report recommends further changes to try to prevent such accidents happening again.
The latest reboot of The Mummy is all you should expect from a Hollywood blockbuster on an ancient Egyptian curse. But what about the science?
Oceanographers say they have the “credible new information” authorities need to resume the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The recent film Sully reveals just what pilots are facing in a disaster situation.
The crash near Medellin killed 75 people, including many members of a top Brazilian football team, but amazingly left six survivors.
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.
It’s all to do with the ‘Swiss cheese model’.
There are hopes that another piece of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has been found. But authorities still don’t know what happened to the aircraft, and the 239 people on board.
Plans for aircraft that separate and parachute to the ground in an emergency are pie in the sky.
Without the details that flight recorders provide, crash investigators cannot fully understand the causes of catastrophe.
Air accident investigations are meticulous, thorough, and are the reason air travel is as safe as it is.
The Dutch Safety Board’s report into the loss of MH17 concludes, but the criminal investigation – which will take in far more evidence – awaits.
Ghoulish obsession with flames, death and grief among the media obscures how safe we really are.
The first loss of life among airshow spectators since 1952, any changes to rules that follow will make them safer still.
The collective wisdom of expert crowds could provide the answer to the Malaysia Airlines mystery.
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