A Boeing executive criticized the company’s second-largest union for launching two public attacks about alleged management misdeeds in recent weeks without…

The 20 August crash of a Spanair Boeing MD-82 occurred in hot and high conditions that would have reduced aircraft performance margins.
Persistent reports from multiple sources suggest its left engine failed and caught fire, but this nor any other information had by 22 August been confirmed by the Spanish authorities.
Madrid’s main airport […]

In the wake of the tragic 1985 British Airtours Boeing 737 accident at Manchester in which 55 people died following an engine fire on take-off, Cranfield University undertook a detailed study into aircraft evacuations on behalf of the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
The research effort in the late 1980s, led by Professor Helen Muir, saw […]

In April 2006 I took part in the successful trial evacuation of an Airbus A380 at Hamburg as part of the type’s certification process, writes Kieran Daly.
Airbus showed that it could evacuate the full complement of 853 passengers plus crew in just 78s - 12s quicker than required.
In practice no airline customer […]

Every aircraft type must undergo a 90s evacuation test before it can go into service. Yet critics say such tests are fatally flawed. We examine the arguments