The crash of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad last month, which killed 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground, has reignited a long-standing debate in aviation circles: should commercial ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was the last American-built aircraft to feature an analog cockpit. The aircraft entered ...

In aviation, uncertainty is dangerous—not just in the skies, but in the aftermath of a crash. When we don’t know the probable cause after an accident, misinformation and speculation fill the void.

If one avionics trend is set to dominate 2026, it is the decisive shift from hardware-led cockpit upgrades to ...

A commercial inbound plane made it to the gate safely after possible smoke in the cockpit on Wednesday morning. Around 11:30 a.m., , the crew of an inbound commercial aircraft bound for Myrtle Beach ...

Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

Avionics used to be the realm of reliable but incremental upgrades — new radar here, a better flight management system there. Today, the real leap is happening inside the silicon: ever‑faster ...

The days where the pilot was forced to interpret multiple data streams simultaneously are over; the aircraft performs the synthesis now. As anyone who has glanced inside the cockpit of an older ...