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Pilot in Deadly Texas Plane Crash Not Certified for Bad Weather

Investigators say the pilot who died in a 2013 Texas Panhandle crash during heavy fog was not certified to fly in such weather. The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on the crash that killed pilot William …

Boeing’s Automation Eyed in Asiana Crash Investigation

U.S. investigators are debating whether to blame a Boeing Co. jetliner’s design for helping cause a cascade of pilot mistakes in last year’s Asiana Airlines Inc. crash that killed three Chinese teenagers. The sticking point within the U.S. National Transportation …

Asiana Crash Pilot Set Throttles He Didn’t Understand to Idle

An Asiana Airlines Inc. pilot nervous about making a manual landing in San Francisco inadvertently disabled a speed-control system before the plane crashed on July 6, newly released documents show. Captain Lee Kang Kuk, a veteran pilot with Seoul-based Asiana …

Crew Blamed for Russian Jet Crash in Indonesia

Human error caused a Russian-made passenger jetliner to crash into an Indonesia volcano seven months ago during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people aboard, the National Commission on Safety Transportation announced Tuesday. Information recovered from the Sukhoi Superjet-100’s cockpit …

Equipment Failure, Training, Inspection Flaws at Fault for Rio-Paris Crash

Pilot error, defective sensors, inadequate training and insufficient oversight combined to send an Air France passenger plane plunging into the south Atlantic in 2009 in the airline’s worst disaster, French investigators said on Thursday. The final report on the Rio-Paris …

Report Suggests Pilot Error in South Dakota Crash

A preliminary report suggests a student pilot who died in a crash at the Sturgis airport in western South Dakota apparently lost control of the Cessna single-engine plane. Fifty-seven-year-old Charlie Palmer of Dyersberg, Tenn., was practicing touch-and-go landings on Nov. …