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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global aircraft altimeter and pitot tube market is expected to grow at a CAGR of above 4% during the period 2018-2022, according to a new market research study by ...

Ohio-based Aero-Instruments has received US FAA parts manufacturer approval (PMA) to market retrofit pitot probes for a large variety of Airbus aircraft, giving operators another provider to choose ...

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This recent post and preceding items mention the still-ambiguous mix of data concerning the crash of Air France 447 into the Atlantic six weeks ago. The plane's presence in a tropical thunderstorm was ...

Accident investigators think icing of Pitot tubes used to determine aircraft air speed might have caused the crash of Air France flight 447 on 31 May 2009. Although journalists and others have talked ...

AIRASIA is installing a new piece of technology in its planes to ensure they don’t suddenly stall mid-flight and lose another plane again. AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes revealed a new “ice-proof” ...

UK investigators have found that a pitot-tube blockage generating unreliable airspeed data spurred an EasyJet Airbus A319 crew to abort take-off at high speed at London Luton. The A319 (G-EZBD) was ...

It's frightening if not ironic to think an invention from the early 1700s could have triggered a chain of events that brought down Air France Flight 447. Pitot tubes that today measure airspeed were ...