Jul 30 Watch 6:39 Will debris help narrow search for MH370? By PBS News Hour Even though it seems more and more likely that the debris recovered on the island of Reunion is part of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, many questions still remain. Judy Woodruff learns more from science correspondent Miles O’Brien and… Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch 4:34 News Wrap: EPA moves to curb emissions from passenger airliners, cargo planes By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, the EPA declared that greenhouse gases from passenger airlines, cargo planes and business jets are a danger to public health. Also, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell warned Congress about the looming Supreme… Continue watching
Jun 09 Watch 6:09 How TSA can improve airport security effectiveness By PBS News Hour The U.S. Senate took a hard look at airport security after a damning report found that fake explosives, weapons and other banned items went unnoticed in 67 of 70 tests, while another report found that the TSA failed to identify… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch 5:10 How the FBI is using a ‘small air force’ to track suspects By PBS News Hour According to the Associated Press, the FBI operates a fleet of undercover planes equipped with video cameras, some of which can also gather cell phone data. The FBI says these flights target suspected criminals, and that a warrant is not… Continue watching
Feb 01 Officials meet to confront safety concerns after aviation disasters By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Government and aviation industry officials from dozens of countries are meeting in Montreal this week to try to find consensus on how to keep from losing airliners like the one that vanished without a trace in Asia and another shot… Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 3:40 Using AirAsia Flight 8501’s mistakes to prevent future crashes By PBS News Hour The black box from AirAsia Flight 8501 provided some answers about what caused the crash, but also opened up questions about automation and why mistakes from past accidents haven’t been corrected. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Gwen Ifill to discuss… Continue watching
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Dec 29 Watch 2:22 Search widens for missing AirAsia flight – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 10 Other countries are surpassing the US in commercial drone flights By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Commercial drone flights are taking off in other countries while the U.S. lags behind in developing safety regulations that would permit unmanned aircraft operations by a wide array of industries, witnesses told a House panel Wednesday. Continue reading
Oct 29 Lost and found? Fragment of Earhart’s missing plane identified By Lorna Baldwin After 77 years of searching, researchers announced they are one big step closer to knowing where aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and her plane ended up. An aluminum fragment found in 1991 on a remote, uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific… Continue reading