Aviation accidents and incidents

A teddy bear wearing a shirt with the word "flight attendant" is placed between flowers and candles outside Germanwings headquarters at the Cologne Bonn airport on March 25, 2015.

A crash in Europe lays bare some of aviation’s myths

Technology

Don’t blame the autopilot for the latest aviation disaster, one pilot says: Humans still have more to do with flying high-tech jets than you think. That and other myths explain a lot about how ordinary people view the airline industry and the accidents it suffers.

Why do we depend on 1960s technology to locate missing planes?

Environment
2014. Britain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination.The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Na

An oceanographer tells why it will be so tough to find missing Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean

Environment
The World

Investigating the Air India crash

The World

National Intelligence Director to step down

Global Politics

NTSB reveals Asiana flight 214 more than 30 knots slower than expected at crash point

Global Politics

National Transportation Safety Board officials said they are still sorting through evidence after the crash of Asiana Flight 214. Early data indicates that the plane speed was too low during its approach into San Francisco Airport.

VIDEO: Somber memorial mark 11th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks

Global Politics

The 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was not marked with speeches, but rather with somber silence. With the exception of one memorial in Pennsylvania, memorials to the about 3,000 people who died in the violent terrorists attacks were marked with reading of names, laying of wreaths and moments of silence.

The 9/11 Trial: Dispute Over Monitoring Defendants Continues

The revelation two weeks ago that an external monitor was remotely censoring the courtroom feed at the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants continues to reverberate here at Guantanamo. […]

Who Controls the Censors at 9/11 Mastermind Tribunal?

The latest round of hearings at the military commission trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants opened Monday at Guantanamo, but by the end of the day it appeared that the judge was not entirely in control of the proceedings.

The World

9/11 Guantanamo Hearings Proceed Slowly

Conflict & Justice

A military tribunal in Guantanamo continued its pre-trial hearings in the case of the alleged 9/11 attacks mastermind and four alleged co-conspirators. Frontline reporter Arun Rath is in Guantanamo following the hearings.