Approximately 185,000 people have died in civilian aviation accidents since the advent of powered flight over a century ago. However, over the past five years among the U.S. airlines, the risk of ...

The International Civil Aviation Organisation has urged heightened and broadened global cooperation on key safety priorities following a rise in aviation accidents in 2024 despite overall positive ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of major accidents involving military aircraft spiked in 2024, internal Pentagon figures show, and a series of high-profile aviation mishaps with deaths and the loss of ...

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NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - Investigators have downloaded flight recorder data from an Air India crash this month that killed 260 people, India's civil aviation ministry said on Thursday ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Mar. 19, 2026 / PRZen / A new report from The Kryder Law Group, LLC Accident and Injury Lawyers, analyzing ten years of Ohio aviation data, reveals that the majority of airport ...

In the first quarter of 2025 alone, more than 170 aviation accidents occurred in the U.S., with 22 resulting in fatalities and 109 deaths. As a pilot and executive in the aviation industry with 27 ...

Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders are nearly indestructible. The recorders are widely referred to as the "black box" and are crucial to aviation accident investigations. Future ...

Aviation’s remarkable safety record—now 40 times safer than in previous decades—is poised for continued progress, thanks to next-generation technologies centered on data analytics and automation.

After the search for survivors and recovery of victims in tragic aviation accidents — comes the search for flight data and a cockpit voice recorder often called the "black box." Aerospace giants GE ...

Flight recorders from UPS Flight 2926 were recovered after the Nov. 4, 2025, crash near Louisville International Airport in Kentucky. Credit: NTSB Investigators probing the Nov. 4 crash of a UPS ...