Medical transport flights (and virtually any flight for-hire, for that matter) are commercial flights according to the FAA. In this case the flight would be covered under Part 135, which does mandate ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a new final rule that requires cockpit voice recorders on newly manufactured aircraft to retain 25 hours of audio, replacing the former two-hour ...

US investigators have disclosed that the cockpit-voice recorder on the ambulance Learjet 55 which fatally crashed in Philadelphia failed to capture audio from the flight. The 30min recording tape had ...

Indonesian divers on Tuesday retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of an AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea as the airline’s boss vowed to overcome the “toughest times” he ...

By Arpan Chaturvedi and Abhijith Ganapavaram NEW DELHI, July 15 (Reuters) - India's aircraft accident investigating body has ...

A Learjet 55 medical aircraft crashed into a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff, killing 7 people (all 6 aboard and one motorist) and injuring 24, while affecting 366 properties ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A commercial aircraft approaches to land at San Diego International Airport, in San Diego, California, U.S., January 6, 2022.

The FAA has finalized a rule extending the required cockpit voice recorder (CVR) retention time for newly manufactured aircraft from two hours to 25 hours. This change aims to enhance incident and ...

Explore the tragic timeline of Air India's Boeing Dreamliner crash as investigators unveil cockpit details and findings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The deadly Air India crash has reignited a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over cockpit video recorders. International ...

WASHINGTON – Searchers today found the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the hijacked plane that flew into the Pentagon and exploded three days earlier, Department of Defense officials said ...