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First fatal airliner event of 2016 The February 2nd in-flight explosion on a Daallo Airlines A321 over Somalia led to the death of one passenger and was the first fatal airliner event of 2016. At...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2016/02/this-week-in-airline-safety-and.html

In the first six months of 2015, AirSafe.com identified eight noteworthy events, but only the two involving passenger deaths on aircraft models commonly used by airlines in the US and the EU. Tho...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/06/airline-safety-and-security-review-for.html

The crash of Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 in Philadelphia, PA on May 12, 2015 involved an Amtrak passenger train, but in many ways this train crash was like a plane crash, specifically in ...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/05/why-train-crash-in-philadelphia-is-like.html

Flight attendants and pilots face unique stresses and risks due to exposures that occur in the aircraft, as well as from issues outside of the aircraft such as fatigue brought on by disrupted sle...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/05/ongoing-harvard-health-studies-need.html

On 6 May 2015, the BEA (Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile) released a preliminary report on the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 which highlighted the fol...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/05/french-authorities-release-preliminary.html

A recent article in i09.com described a reality that may surprise some passengers. In short, the passenger emergency oxygen system used in some airliners may generate small amounts of toxic chemi...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/04/the-chemicals-that-may-be-in-your.html

The unfolding investigation of March 2015 crash of Germanwings flight 9525 has revealed that it is very likely that the first officer locked the captain out of the cockpit, and proceeded to delib...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/04/are-people-with-history-of-depression.html

24 March 2015; Germanwings A320-200; D-AIPX; flight 4U9525; near Barcelonnette, France: The aircraft was on a scheduled international flight from Barcelona, Spain to Düsseldorf, Germany. About a...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/03/at-least-seven-deliberate-crashes-by.html

24 March 2015; Germanwings A320-200; D-AIPX; flight 4U9525; near Barcelonnette, France: The aircraft was on a scheduled international flight from Barcelona, Spain to Düsseldorf, Germany. About a...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/03/germanwings-a320-crashes-in-france-with.html

Recent interviews featuring Todd Curtis of AirSafe.com included: An interview with the BBC about claims that some airlines in the Middle East are receiving unfair subsidies, Several interviews di...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/03/recent-interviews-about-harrison-fords.html

Recent interviews featuring Todd Curtis of AirSafe.com included: An interview on the Rudy Maxa show on proposed FAA drone regulations, A CJOB radio interview about last month's fatal crash of a G...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/02/recent-interviews-on-drones-transasia.html

4 February 2015; TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600; B-22816; flight GE232; near Magong, Taiwan: The aircraft was on a scheduled domestic flight between Taipei and Kinmen Island, Taiwan. The airplane c...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/02/transasia-airways-has-second-fatal.html

This is the 19th annual review since AirSafe.com was launched in 1996. From 1996 to 2013, the number of fatal events in a year have ranged from a low of five in 2013 to a high of 19 in 1997 This ...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2015/01/2014-airline-safety-review.html

Between now and the beginning of next year, untold millions of passengers, some of them flying for the first time in a while, and even many first time flyers, will be taking to the skies for the ...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/12/holiday-air-travel-advice-2014.html

'This Week in Airline Safety' for 7 November 2014 discusses how the SpaceShipTwo mishap led to a rethinking of how AirSafe.com will look at space related safety and risk. Last month's mishap that...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/11/rethinking-space-related-mishaps-in.html

The following is an overview of the preliminary findings presented by the NTSB on the third day of their investigation. During the fourth media briefing on the third day of the on site portion of...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/11/ntsb-provides-timeline-of-spaceshiptwo.html

The following is an overview of the factual data presented by the NTSB on the second day of their investigation. During the media briefing on the second day of the NTSB investigation of the crash...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/11/ntsb-hints-that-spaceshiptwo-breakup.html

The NTSB is leading the investigation into yesterday's crash of Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo north of Mojave, CA. Saturday November 1st was the first day of the investigation, and the NTSB has ...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/11/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-ntsb.html

In recent days, Ebola-related restrictions on travel keep changing, sometimes in ways that can be confusing to airline passengers and to the general public. There are two basic reasons why this i...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/10/why-ebola-air-travel-restrictions-keep.html

In the days after the first Ebola fatality in the US in early October 2014, from a person who contracted the disease in Liberia and later flew to Dallas, TX, there have been concerns in some circ...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/10/why-air-travel-ban-may-not-help-to-keep.html

CDC Expands Passenger Notification A nurse who had treated the first US Ebola patient was exposed to the Ebola virus and later contracted the disease. Before she was hospitalized, she had taken t...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/10/hundreds-more-passengers-may-have-been.html

The recent news that a nurse, Amber Joy Vinson, who was both infected by the Ebola virus and showing Ebola-related symptoms, was on an airline flight with 132 other passengers (and at least five ...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/10/evolving-issues-with-ebola-and-air.html

On 8 October 2014, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) released an update detailing their best estimate of the current location of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The location of this 7...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/10/update-on-location-of-flight-mh370.html

On October 8th, 2014 the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), along with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), announced a series of new screening measures at selected US airports. These measu...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/10/new-ebola-screening-measures-likely-not.html

On September 30, 2014, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the US involved an airline passenger, Thomas Eric Duncan, ...

http://www.airsafenews.com/2014/10/airline-passenger-infected-with-ebola.html