A cargo flight meant to cross the Atlantic Ocean was forced to turn back after one of its passengers got rowdy when the plane reached cruise altitude. This wasn’t some case of a passenger starting ...

British European Airways Flight 548 entered a fatal stall shortly after leaving Heathrow when the Trident’s leading-edge ...

Fatal accidents involving Hawker 800 and 900XP jets have prompted the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to issue emergency recommendations for post-maintenance stall tests. According to ...

“Post-stall maneuvering” gives a plane excellent maneuverability—but the equipment needed to boost it comes with tradeoffs, as all advanced aircraft features do. The post-stall maneuvers, like ...

The Colgan Flight 3407 accident highlighted persistent safety concerns regarding turboprops operating in icing conditions and the effectiveness of current de-icing systems. Aircraft icing ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — The flight crew of a plane that crashed near Lansing in October had decided to perform a post-maintenance test themselves after the aircraft had undergone seven ...

New air traffic control audio captures pilots in an apparent struggle to regain control of a private business jet as the plane plunged into woods near Lansing, Michigan on Thursday, killing all ...

Credit: NASA I wrote on the topic of ice-contaminated tailplane stall a while back and apparently did not understand the problem. It is now years later and I still feel the same as I did then. I ...