The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...

The FAA has issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive affecting all Boeing MD-11 and MD-11F aircraft worldwide.

Despite the fireball and catastrophic structural failure that doomed UPS Flight 2976 on Tuesday afternoon in Louisville, ...

Scientists worked to ensure fleet safety after a large crack was unexpectedly found near the cockpit of a T-38 Talon. A new study describes how risk and damage tolerance analyses helped determine a ...

New York-Evidence is implicating failure of the composite material vertical tail (stabilizer) and its attachment to the fuselage in the crash of an American Airlines Airbus A300 in New York last ...

Losing two engines on takeoff doesn’t just qualify as catastrophic-it’s aerodynamically terminal. Video of Tuesday’s fatal UPS MD-11F crash in Louisville clearly depicts flames erupting from the left ...

A Sling aircraft's brake disc was severely corroded before it fractured after landing at Moorabbin Airport, an ATSB ...

A student and examiner were killed in an accident that occurred during a flight exam at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, yesterday morning. Structural failure might ...

The probable cause of the American Airlines Flight 587 crash on Nov. 12, 2001, was "in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by ...