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 ...
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, ...
Moments after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, an American Airlines pilot pressed hard on rudder pedals to help stabilize the shaking plane from wake turbulence. But instead of ...
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 ...
In the wake of the American Airlines Flight 587 accident, manufacturers of large transports are scrutinizing the systems that affect pilots' feel of the rudder and limit its travel. Large rudder ...
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.
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 ...