Manchester Air Disaster remembered 40 years on By Richard Stead A man who lost his 18-year-old daughter in the Manchester Air Disaster said he would never forget dropping her off at the airport exactly 40 years ago. Fifty-three passengers and two crew members perished on 22 August 1985 after an engine on a British Airtours aeroplane caught fire on the...Read More

UK CAA publishes new safety insights to guide future eVTOL regulation Electric Take-Off and Landing aircraft (eVTOLs) are being developed by a mixture of start-ups and traditional aviators and are testing the frontier of battery technology for inter-city and regional flight in the coming years. They promise to be quieter with potentially lower operational costs than traditional rotorcraft, bringing the...Read More

Crucial DGCA Unit Meant to Audit Aircraft Safety Is Half Empty and Neglected By Kunal Purohit An RTI filed by The Wire has revealed that 43% of all posts in the Directorate of Airworthiness, meant to conduct surprise technical checks on private airlines, are vacant. A crucial unit at the frontline of India’s air safety apparatus, meant to keep a...Read More

VIDEO: FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024: Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementation One Year Later Recent video from Official YouTube site for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure DemocratsRead More

Hydrogen Aviation: Pushing the Envelope By Mike Hirschberg and Jesse Schneider The Vertical Flight Society held its fourth annual H2-Aero Symposium on April 2–3, 2025, in Long Beach, California, with the theme, “Pushing the Envelope.” This year’s symposium featured two days of groundbreaking presentations with the latest cutting-edge developments by the who’s who of the hydrogen aviation and fuel cell...Read More

Paul Fromme, Chair of the Aerospace Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers comments on Air India plane crash “The first step will be to recover and analyse the flight data and cockpit voice recorders (‘black box’). While it obviously was a catastrophic crash, it occurred in an accessible area and from low altitude, therefore there is a good likelihood that these...Read More

Airbus Summit 2025 – Update on progress toward sustainable aviation By Eric Brothers At the third edition of the Airbus Summit held in Toulouse, France in March, experts, creators, and innovators from around the world gathered in person and online to learn the latest news of the plane maker’s efforts toward sustainable aerospace. Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said, “We thought...Read More

UK CAA SN-2025/006: Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Frequency Interference Leading to Navigation/Surveillance Degradation Civil Aviation Authority SAFETY NOTICE Number: SN–2025/006 Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Frequency Interference Leading to Navigation/Surveillance Degradation safetynotice2025006Read More

An Unforgettable Closing to the 2025 ACSF Safety Symposium with Tim and Sheri Lilley As the 2025 ACSF Safety Symposium came to a close, attendees were deeply moved by a profoundly emotional and impactful presentation from Captain Tim Lilley and Sheri Lilley, parents of First Officer Sam Lilley. Sam was serving as First Officer on American Airlines Flight 5342, which...Read More

Vietnam, France cooperate to strengthen aviation safety monitoring capability Under the strategic planning component, the French side will assist CAAV in developing a roadmap to manage the projected growth of Vietnam’s aviation sector in the coming years. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) and the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) on April 9 signed Appendix VI to their technical...Read More