Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...

Damaged left thrust reverser of the accident jet. Credit: NTSB Two weeks after the March 2019 crash involving an IAI Westwind in Yukon, Oklahoma, two people who were familiar with jet told the NTSB ...

Stopping an airplane is no easy task, and although planes can use spoilers and thrust reversers to assist with the task, the brakes still do around 40% of the work. In simple terms, it's all about ...

Thrust reversers on the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that overshot a runway at Midway International Airport and killed a child on the ground last week were deployed significantly later than they ...

Boeing Co. said Friday it is recommending that airlines fix a key piece of equipment on its 777 airliner to make sure that engine heat doesn't cause damage. Boeing said the new service bulletin ...

A maintenance procedure mandated by regulators can leave Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) thrust reversers inoperable immediately after the work is done, prompting regulators to warn affected operators ...

UK investigators have found that an Airbus A320 captain, having initiated a go-around on touchdown at Corfu, cycled the thrust levers forward and back after realising reverse-thrust had already been ...