The word “cockpit” generally brings to mind an image of a panel with a thousand buttons and switches from which a pilot controls an aircraft. But these days, the definition of the term goes beyond ...

The skies were cloudy and the ground was covered by a patchy blanket of fog in Charlotte on the morning of September 11th, 1974. But it wasn’t bad weather or poor visibility that led to the ...

Pilots are trained for lots of scenarios, but certainly not for dealing with snakes in the cockpit he said, telling the BBC that panicking would have just made the situation worse. The plane made ...

Pete White The AW169 helicopter crashed shortly after this photograph was taken The AAIB released an initial report in December 2018, which found cockpit pedals had disconnected from the tail rotor.