A stable approach, correctly configured and on speed, is crucial for landing safety, with a go-around being the best course of action for any unstabilized approach. Effective teaching methods for ...

While high winds have been attributed to a fatal airplane crash on the runway of Aspen-Pitkin County Airport more than three years ago, the experience of the pilots onboard also has been cited as a ...

The Hawker jet was descending through 13,500 feet, near the end of a 34-minute hop from Dayton, Ohio, to Akron Fulton Airport, when one of the passengers leaned through the cockpit door. “You guys ...

A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on the 2019 plane crash that injured NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. is citing pilot error as the cause of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The crash of a jet aircraft as it came in for landing at a windy Aspen airport more than three years ago, leaving one man dead and two others injured, has ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report on a plane crash involving soon-to-be NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr., determining the ...

In Part 1, we discussed the NTSB’s investigation into the December 2020 accident. The NTSB’s probable cause was “The pilot’s failure to maintain proper control of the airplane, which led to an ...

Weather at the time of the accident “was near or in exceedance of the aircraft’s maximum tailwind and crosswind component for landing.” ...

The first part of this article series describes what led to the aircraft sliding off the runway into the river. The NTSB conducted a major accident investigation of Miami Air 293, launching a full ...