How can two competing manufacturers have such wildly different views of how a cockpit should work? Boeing and Airbus have ...

Agency blocks public access to accident investigation files after finding unauthorized approximations of CVR.

Safety experts recommended Wednesday that airlines develop realistic training to prepare their pilots to deal with smoke filling the cockpit like what happened on a Southwest Airlines plane after a ...

The docket system will be unavailable as NTSB officials "examine the scope of the issue and evaluate potential solutions," ...

Pilots’ voices from the last seconds of a fatal cargo plane crash have been re-created by Internet sleuths using software and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The National Transportation Safety Board restricted access to part of its website after people used reverse-engineering technology to reconstruct cockpit audio connected to ...

a. The space in the fuselage of a small airplane containing seats for the pilot, copilot, and sometimes passengers. b. The space set apart for the pilot and crew, as in a helicopter, large airliner, ...

Cockpit barriers are required to stay sealed during flight, but oftentimes passengers can get a glimpse inside while boarding CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Passengers can often catch a glimpse ...

Policies for locking airline cockpit doors — reinforced throughout the industry after the terrorist hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001 — differ among countries. A French prosecutor, Brice Robin, said ...

Modern cockpit doors have safety systems to keep out intruders. They can be opened from the cabin - to help pilots in an emergency. But control is from within. And that has its own dangers. Virtually ...