WE’LL HEAR MORE FROM THE SCHOOL AT 6:00. THE NTSB SAYS LOSS OF CONTROL AND STALLING WHILE TRYING TO CLOSE AN OPEN DOOR LIKELY LED TO A PLANE CRASH IN CONCORD LAST YEAR. THAT’S ACCORDING TO THE FINAL ...

One of the reasons pilots so frequently lose control in flight is they forget—or never were properly instructed—that an airplane’s published stall speed applies only when at gross weight, in a ...

Federal investigators determined that an unstable landing approach caused the fiery plane crash at Kalispell City Airport in August. A preliminary accident report from the Federal Aviation ...

Chilling moments just before a plane crashed outside Lansing, Mich. Thursday evening were captured on audio, according to TMZ. A twin-engine jet took off from Battle Creek Executive Airport at Kellogg ...

Four minutes later, the plane s autopilot and auto-thrust shut off, the stall alarm sounded twice and the co-pilot at the controls, 32-year-old Pierre-Cedric Bonin, took over manual control. A second ...

Emily Hurd watched helplessly as two of her best friends tried to stop the twin-engine plane from spinning towards the ground. Then, as the ground approached, she closed her eyes. Hurd was the sole ...

Initial flight testing explores the characteristics of the airplane as it is initially configured. At this point, the designers have done their best to create a machine that is safe to fly, meets all ...

Traditional stall warning systems and airspeed indicators are inadequate for pilots needing to operate close to a wing's critical angle of attack, as they provide late alerts or unreliable speed-based ...