The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...

The probable cause of the American Airlines Flight 587 crash on Nov. 12, 2001, was "in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by ...

PUTRAJAYA, April 9 (Bernama) -- The failure and in-flight separation of structural parts due to excessive operational stresses on the aircraft's weakened composite materials has been identified as the ...

PUTRAJAYA: The failure of structural parts due to excessive stress on the aircraft’s compromised composite materials has been identified as the primary cause of the fatal plane crash in Kapar, ...

Inside the massive testing hangars across Seattle and Everett, the world's biggest jetliners are turned into mechanical lab rats. Hydraulic actuators yank their wings skyward, compressors simulate ...

FracRisk is a software tool developed by DSTG to predict the likelihood of an aircraft incurring fatigue-related structural damage during its next mission. Last year the tool was transitioned to ...

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Attorneys at the law firm of Slack Davis Sanger have been following the Nevada crash of a Pilatus PC-12 which occurred late February 24. Friday’s fatal ...

iSurface, a project led by Munro Technology, Z Prime, Axalp Technologies AG and researchers from Swiss university of applied sciences FHNW (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), unveiled a new intelligent ...

A failure of adhesive bonding was the cause of an aircraft crash, an investigation has found. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch published its report on the VA-1X, G-EVTL crash at Cotswold Airport ...

The crash of a UPS MD-11 freighter during takeoff from Louisville has rapidly shifted from a mystery to a focused hunt for ...