US investigators believe the pilots of a Hawker 900XP were insufficiently prepared for a post-maintenance stall test, during ...

With loss of control still the primary cause of aircraft fatalities, the FAA last year released the new Airmen Certification Standards, some aspects of it controversial, to replace the practical test ...

When an airplane stalls, it’s no longer able to produce lift. When this occurs, there’s an insufficient amount of air traveling under the airplane’s wings to keep it up. As a result, the airplane will ...

A Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu crashed as it descended towards the city of Pokhara in Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 69 of the 72 people on board, according to the country's Civil Aviation ...

The Cessna 425 Conquest aircraft that crashed into the runway at Windhoek International Airport and killed three pilots in February 2016 came down after the engines stalled at low-altitude, the ...

DESPITE two catastrophic air crashes (the disappearance of MH370 over the Indian ocean, and the shooting down of MH17 over Ukraine), 2014 was the safest year on record for civil aviation—with only one ...

Angle of attack (AOA) is an important parameter to an aircraft’s performance, stability and control. A wing has a limited range of AOA in which to function efficiently, and going beyond those limits ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is ...

The C-130 crash in the southern Philippines is one of the deadliest military aviation accidents in the country's history - Copyright Joint Task Force-Sulu/AFP Handout ...

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