By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Friday finalized a rule to require cockpit voice recorders to retain 25 hours of data for all new ...

FAA final rule moves US cockpit voice recorders from 2 hours to 25 on newly built aircraft, improving investigations and raising privacy and retrofit costs.

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The NTSB has released their first report on the fatal plane crash last month that took the life of retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and 7 others, giving us our first real insight into what went wrong ...

Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

From the most iconic airplanes in aviation history to those among the forgotten passenger jets that once graced the skies, there's no denying that aircraft are incredible feats of engineering. These ...

Plans also call for the plane's avionics system to automatically convert all radio communications to text displayed on a cockpit screen. That way, the pilot will have a transcript of all the ...

Honeywell is testing new alerts that can give pilots more reaction time to avoid close calls at congested airports. Serious airline accidents are rare, but the United States is the busiest aviation ...

It's a federal crime, so why are so many people shining lasers at cockpits? — -- After a spate of commercial planes flying over New York and New Jersey reported spotting lasers beamed toward ...