Our aviation experts told us the aircraft altitude is determined by the flight dispatcher in the flight plan prior to departure. Factors like weather patterns, aircraft weight, and winds depending ...

Neither pilot of a Ryanair Boeing 737 Max 8-200 noticed that the aircraft was descending from its assigned altitude during a go-around, after the captain wrongly assumed the autopilot and autothrottle ...

NTSB investigators found that failures in the navigation system led to the autopilot disengaging on a United Airlines flight ...

Although the engine instruments ... a safe altitude and speed have been reached, can also put rusty pilots into compromising situations. Equally problematic is overloading the aircraft or ...

In half of those instances, a helicopter may have been above the altitude flight ... gauges read prior to the crash and that investigators were reaching out to the Army as well as Sikorsky ...