The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued urgent safety recommendations on Thursday to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in response to the potential for a jammed or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rudder systems on certain Boeing 737 Max aircraft could be compromised due to faulty rollout guidance actuators, the National ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued an urgent safety recommendation to Boeing and the FAA about a manufacturing fault in an auto-landing system with some 737 plane models.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued urgent safety recommendations on Thursday to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in response to the potential for a jammed or ...

See a mistake? Contact us. During checkouts of rated pilots, I usually ask them to explain why the rudder is on the airplane. More than half of rated pilots will tell me the rudder helps turn the ...

The federal government has ordered that a new rudder-control system be installed in U.S.-registered Boeing 737s to help avert a rare but sometimes catastrophic loss of control. The new rule, issued ...

(RTTNews) - In a latest blow to the struggling aerospace giant Boeing Co., which has been hit by an ongoing strike by machinists as well as various safety issues, the National Transportation Safety ...

The rudder pedals on Boeing 737 jets can get jammed in the neutral position due to collected moisture freezing over in a rudder part, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a new report. The ...

Northwest Airlines Flight 85 was cruising at 35,000 feet last month on a routine flight from Detroit to Tokyo when something apparently broke in the rudder-control system on the tail. The jet, ...

US investigators have concluded that excessive rudder-pedal input during an Airbus A321’s take-off run from New York JFK caused a sharp roll upon rotation and resulted in the left wing-tip striking ...

See a mistake? Contact us. Last month in this space we tackled “Proper Rudder Use,” pointing out that in many situations involving angles of attack (AoA) at or near the stall, rudder and not aileron ...

Yesterday I mentioned one informed hypothesis about the accident-chain that brought Air France 447 down into the Atlantic Ocean: pitot-tube trouble, leading to autopilot trouble, leading to manual ...