Pilots use a detailed pre-flight checklist before taking passengers’ lives into their hands. So why shouldn’t operating room surgeons and nurses be subjected to the same rigorous preparation? That’s ...

Preflight checks are a legally mandated and critical element of flight safety, requiring pilots to be familiar with all flight information and ensure aircraft airworthiness before takeoff. These ...

Editor’s note: Following the incident this month in which a Horizon Airlines ground worker commandeered and crashed a commercial airplane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, we asked former ...

Investigators have criticised Scandinavian Airlines’ Bombardier Q400 training and monitoring procedures after inquiries into a serious unstable-approach incident discovered that Q400 crews repeatedly ...

Checklist design and procedures featured on the agenda of this week’s high-level ICAO safety conference following the fatal loss of a Boeing MD-82 at Madrid, and the extraordinary escape of an MD-83 ...