US safety investigators have determined that the probable cause of a Pinnacle Bombardier CRJ that overran a runway in April 2007 in Traverse City, Michigan was the lack of a required landing distance ...

Lengthening calculated landing and take-off distance to ensure safety in bad weather will be the focus of a new US Federal Aviation Administration review. An Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) will ...

For too many years aviation lacked a reliable, up-to-the-minute system for reporting runway surface conditions for pilots to make accurate landing performance assessments. Rather, we depended on ...