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Today, the site is slated to become part of the new Interstate 490 tollway, a new chapter that brings its own emotional ...

Recent airline accidents highlight that automation quirks, poor decision-making, and unstable approaches are persistent causes of incidents. Pilots often succumb to "normalization of deviation" and ...

In the wake of a major airline crash, it's not unusual for the carrier's CEO to resign, especially if there were signs that corporate culture may have played a hand in it. In the case of Air Canada ...

Without them, the massive jet was like a paper airplane on a gusty day—completely unresponsive to the pilots’ steering commands. The planned flight from of JAL 123 from Tokyo to Osaka turns off course ...

A US safety agency’s four-year investigation into the China Eastern disaster has sparked fresh scrutiny of the Air India crash in Ahmedabad last year.