The Yeti Airlines flight Anju Khatiwada was co-piloting was headed for the Pokhara International Airport when it crashed on Sunday Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has ...
U.S. federal regulations have long required the minimum pilot crew on an airplane to include two pilots who are each trained to respond if one becomes incapacitated, a Federal Aviation Administration ...
Pilots and copilots who fly passenger airlines must obtain Airline Transport Pilot certificates, which require 1,500 hours of flight time. Republic Airways, a carrier that operates an average of 1,000 ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday it had denied a request by regional airline Republic Airways to reduce the number of hours needed to train ...
Federal regulators have soundly rejected an airline’s controversial request to reduce commercial pilot hiring standards in half to tackle the global pilot shortage. In April, regional airline Republic ...
"My number one goal was to be able to fly with my dad," Ruben Flowers III, a newly minted Southwest pilot, tells PEOPLE Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years as a ...
The robots are coming! Well, not quite, but the prospect of sharing the flightdeck with artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilots has sparked a lively debate within the aviation industry. Will these AI ...
After Dipak Pokhrel died in a crash while piloting a small Yeti Airlines passenger plane in 2006, his wife Anju Khatiwada used the money she got from her husband's insurance to pay for her own pilot ...