A new program to air on PBS later this month reports the majority of America's civil aviation fleet is prone to undetectable and unfightable in-flight fires. "NOVA Presents: Crash Of Flight 111" further alleges the FAA and the airline industry have been aware of this problem since 1993 and have, in the case of most recommendations from the Canadian Transportation Safety Board, failed to act.

From the start, NTSB investigators probing the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in November, 2001, have concentrated on co-pilot Sten Molin's manipulation of the rudder pedals. Just after taking off from JFK Airport in New York, the aircraft encountered extreme turbulence. Attempting to counteract the turbulence, co-pilot Molin actuated the rudder of the Airbus A300-600 at a speed of 250 kts. To this point, theories have suggested that Molin over manipulated the rudder, causing the aircraft's vertical stabilizer to snap completely away from the airframe. The aircraft spun into a residential area of Queens, killing 265 people. But now, an outside expert hired by the NTSB, suggests the very design of the aircraft could have played a major part in the crash. That plays right int

Douglas Skolnick of Franklin Lakes (NJ) headed home from Brazil Sunday -- $17,200 lighter in the wallet. Skolnick was arrested in the resort town of Foz do Iguacu when he arrived with a tour group including his wife. As he was being routinely photographed and fingerprinted, Skolnick raised his middle finger in a gesture that can only be interpreted as... defiant.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's plan for revamping O'Hare International Airport will cost more than twice the amount promised by the man aviators love to hate -- and may prove to be altogether unworkable, according to the Chicago Tribune.

It's not often you hear this kind of praise from one airline executive about another airline: "One of the reasons Southwest is so successful and has such high customer service ratings is that they promise a product that is very simple and deliver on that promise very consistently. It's a better paradigm... and that's where we need to move." But that's just what American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey had to say at the Goldman Sachs Transportation Conference in New York last week.

When you're an airport security inspector, we imagine you see a lot of things that, well, illuminate the human condition. Such was the case in Athens when a 40-year old British woman set off a metal detector's alarm. After a rather lengthy and certainly personal body search, security staffers found the cause -- the woman was wearing a chastity belt, officials said on Friday.

Members of the National Air Transportation Association's (NATA) Airline Services Council (ASC) met in Washington (DC) last week with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs to develop and implement an alliance that would address the health and safety needs of those working on the Airport Operating Area (AOA).

One ground crew member was hurt at Seattle's Sea-Tac Friday, when lightning jolted a Horizon Air aircraft parked on the ramp.

Frontier Airlines has become the only airline in America whose maintenance department has been awarded the FAA Diamond Award for a fifth consecutive year. The Diamond Award is the highest honor given by the FAA and recognizes airlines and other maintenance facilities where at least 25 percent of its aircraft maintenance technicians complete certified training requirements beyond their initial certification.