2004-10-27 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, the second-worst in American history, was caused by the pilot's ...
SPRINGFIELD, Va. — The world’s most popular commercial aircraft, the Boeing 737, has a design flaw in its rudder system that could cause the plane to roll uncontrollably and crash under certain ...
American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York neighborhood in November 2001, killing 265 people, because the co-pilot improperly used the rudder to try to steady the plane, ...
SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Federal investigators probing a 1994 USAir crash that killed 132 cast doubt on the safety of the world’s most widely used commercial aircraft yesterday, suggesting that the Boeing ...
Problems remain with the rudder design of Airbus jets like the A300 model that crashed in the Rockaways five years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday. Government agencies in ...
Following the USA's proposal to make compulsory a complete rudder control system retrofit on the nation's 2,000 Boeing 737s, owners of all 4,500 737s worldwide will be under pressure to do the same.
WASHINGTON - The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that an overly sensitive rudder system on American Airlines Flight 587 and inadequate pilot training were contributing factors in the ...
Problems remain with the rudder design of Airbus jets like the A300 model that crashed in the Rockaways five years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday. Government agencies in ...