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 ...

How can a single attachment assembly turn a routine takeoff into an unrecoverable systems emergency? That question has trailed widebody freighters for decades because the engine pylon is not just a ...

Scientists worked to ensure fleet safety after a large crack was unexpectedly found near the cockpit of a T-38 Talon. A new study describes how risk and damage tolerance analyses helped determine a ...

Boeing's troubled 777X program has suffered another significant blow with the discovery of a cracked structural component, forcing the company to halt flight tests. The issue, found during routine ...

When Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 experienced a catastrophic structural failure at 16,000 feet on Jan. 5, it was a stark reminder of the enormous responsibility Boeing has as an airplane ...

A report released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board reveals that Boeing was aware of a structural defect in the engine mounting system that caused a UPS cargo plane to crash in ...

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 ...