(October 2011) Air France 447 went down in the mid-Atlantic in 2009 because all three of its pitot tubes iced up. Well, not exactly. It wasn’t the loss of functioning pitot tubes that doomed the ...

Irish investigators are recommending that Boeing reviews its pitot-heat indicator for modern 737 variants to ensure that crews are warned in the event of pitot heat failure. It follows an incident on ...

UK investigators have found that a pitot-tube blockage generating unreliable airspeed data spurred an EasyJet Airbus A319 crew to abort take-off at high speed at London Luton. The A319 (G-EZBD) was ...

While the mystery of what caused Air France Flight 447 to vanish into the Atlantic Ocean is far from solved, preliminary reports suggest equipment first developed in the 18th century may have ...

Maintenance blunders keep catching pilots by surprise. Fortunately, the savvy and experienced pilots of a United Parcel Service (UPS) Boeing 747-200 freighter were able to retrieve the situation ...