Mar 27 Is a 600-hour pilot too green to be safe? By Miles O'Brien The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 offers yet another example of how the layers of safety in aviation have been peeled away since deregulation 35 years ago. Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch 2:58 Cockpit voice recorder captures dramatic descent of Germanwings flight By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch 7:37 News Wrap: Investigators search through Germanwings wreckage on Alpine slopes By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 24 Watch 4:14 Why was the German jet flying so low and so fast? By PBS News Hour What happened to the Germanwings Airbus that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday? Shortly after reaching its cruising altitude, the airplane began a dangerously fast descent over mountainous terrain, but no distress call was issued. Alan Diehl, an aviation… Continue watching
Mar 24 Watch 2:54 No distress call by Germanwings plane that crashed in Alps By PBS News Hour A passenger jet traveling from Spain to Germany crashed in the French Alps this morning, and all 150 people on board are presumed dead. The steep and rocky terrain poses a major challenge for search crews, but one black box… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 3:17 Will AirAsia crash lead to better tracking systems? – Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 2:41 Search teams find victims, mangled metal of AirAsia plane – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 24 Missing Air Algerie plane disappears from radar, believed to have crashed By Anna Christiansen, Andrew Troast The flight was carrying 50 French citizens. The provisional passenger list also named 24 people from Burkina Faso, eight Lebanese, four Algerians, two from Luxembourg, one Belgian, one Swiss, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian, one Ukrainian, and one Romanian. Continue reading
Jul 23 Watch News Wrap: First MH17 crash victims are returned to the Netherlands By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, two aircrafts ferried the first of the victims from MH17 back to the Netherlands, home country of 193 of the 298 people killed in the crash. Also, a Trans-Asia Airways plane crashed in a storm… Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Probe Continues for ‘Inexplicable’ SFO Plane Crash; Third Casualty Confirmed Probe Continues for 'Inexplicable' SFO Plane Crash; Third Casualty Confirmed… Continue watching