Modern cockpit doors are designed to stop hijackers from reaching the pilots, but the emergency involving a flydubai flight has highlighted the difficulty of responding when the threat is already insi ...
Captain Smit Machchhar has recalled the chilling moments of the September 30 Flydubai cockpit attack, describing how repeated ...
Dramatic new video from aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073 has provided the clearest look yet at the desperate battle to save the ...
Flydubai incident highlights potential for an insider attack ...
On modern aircraft, they are hardened barriers. But on the Flydubai plane that made an emergency landing Wednesday, the ...
Trump praised the Boeing 737 MAX 8, calling it “an amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design.” ...
CINCINNATI, Ohio, 25 Sept. 2014. “Visual acuity in the cockpit is a bigger problem than you might think,” describes Bruce S. Maxwell of Luma Technologies during the SAE Aerospace Systems and ...
The increasing complexity and cost of modern aircraft make maintaining pilot proficiency challenging, advocating for cockpit-specific flight simulators as a practical and safer alternative to ...
Thanks to the seemingly unstoppable advance of electronic and mechanical devices, aircraft manufacturers are constantly upgrading the cockpit environment and the passenger cabin, making flying the ...
Every time there’s a plane crash or other aviation safety incident, we often hear talk of the famous “black box”. Of course, anyone these days will tell you that they’re not black, but orange, for ...