Weather, pilot error possible crash causes

Transportation Safety Board still probing cause of crash The plane, a Twin Otter operated by Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air, went down on Jan. 23 during a flight from South Pole Station to an Italian base at Terra Nova Bay. Extreme weather prevented ...

A rescue worker prepare to retrieve a Lion Air jet plane's cockpit voice recorder out of the wreckage of the plane near the Ngurah Rai International airport in Kuta Indonesias Transport Ministry said yesterday that a Lion Air jet stuck in shallow ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-Spokesman for the Minisry of Transportation Bambang S. Ervan stated that the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of Lion Airs Boeing 737-800 has been found on Monday night, 15 April 2013. Based on Ngurah Rai Airport officials report, the ...

Believe it or not but the state VIPs, including some former UP chief ministers have been flying in aircraft and helicopters which were not fitted with the extremely crucial Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR).

MOSCOW, May 9 (Itar-Tass) - The second flight recorder has been spotted at the crash scene of a Mi-8 helicopter in Russias Irkutsk region, a source in the local police told Itar-Tas on Thursday. A cockpit voice recorder from the crashed Mi-8 has ...

SUBSCRIBER CONTENT PREVIEW FOR FULL STORY: LOGIN OR SUBSCRIBE NOW - UP TO 3 MONTHS FREE (Press Release NSF) Officials with the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and Antarctica New Zealand have jointly decided to recall search-and-rescue teams from the ...

Investigators have raised questions over training and cockpit procedures at Indonesian budget carrier Lion Air after a preliminary report into a crash last month off Bali found the captain was not at the controls at a "critical time". The National ...

Two Air India pilots were caught napping in business class while flight attendants in the cockpit accidentally turned off the auto-pilot, a lapse that led to the crew being suspended, news reports and officials said Saturday. Today, 13:14 Vega ...

Investigators retrieve one of two data recorders on the jet after the tail breaks away from the semi-submerged fuselage. Indonesian air crash investigators have started working to determine what caused a new passenger jet to miss a runway while ...