The most detailed account of previous pitot icing incidents on the A330 comes in a memo written by the flight safety officer of Paris Orly-based Air Caraïbes Atlantique after the carrier suffered two ...

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PARISPARIS — Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, the Associated Press has learned.

New standards for pitot probes are expected to emerge from a working group being founded in the wake of June's fatal loss of an Air France Airbus A330 over the south Atlantic. Airbus is backing ...

Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, the Associated Press has learned. But air ...

PARIS — Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, The Associated Press has learned. But ...

Barriers to sharing vital aviation safety information may start coming down this year, but the prevailing lack of transparency has allowed deficiencies to fester in the global air transport system for ...

(See update below.) The first reaction to news of the crash yesterday over I-287 in New Jersey, in which a married couple in their 40s, their two children, and a friend in his 30s all died (plus a dog ...

Air France confirmed it has accelerated the process of replacing speed sensors on some of its Airbus aircraft, but it disputed claims by its pilots that it did so in response to their complaints ...

Last week I mentioned the probable role of icing in the small-airplane crash in New Jersey that killed a young family plus their friend, and the reaction of professional and amateur pilots to the ...

Of course, icing is possible year round — even at Bonanza altitudes. On an August flight from Quebec a couple of years ago, I did pick up some noticeable rime icing when passing through cloud tops at ...

Airbus knew since at least 2002 about problems with the type of speed sensor that malfunctioned on an Air France passenger plane that went down in June, The Associated Press has learned. But air ...