New study urges FAA to investigate airline pilot commutes and fatigue, again. July 6, 2011 — -- When a Congress-backed committee attempted to gather data on pilot commutes and dangerous fatigue, ...

"I looked over and he was sound asleep." That's how an instrument candidate described an experience he had during a training flight at night. He was under the hood, and they were on an IFR flight plan ...

A German pilot's union study found that 93% of surveyed pilots admitted to napping on the job. The union attributes the napping to pilot fatigue from tight schedules and staff shortages. U.S. Federal ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Questions are mounting over CS Davis Chirchir's actions to quell the strike that has now entered its second day causing chaos ...

A new federal proposal for combating pilot fatigue may still allow pilots to commute on red-eye flights the night before going to work -- just as the co-pilot of the doomed Continental Connection ...

Start your morning with The National News Desk as Jan Jeffcoat sits down with retired FBI Agent and former Chicago police superintendent Jody Weis. FBI releases photos of potential subject in Nancy ...

New Delhi: India’s aviation network has been plunged into disruption, with nearly half of all domestic flights cancelled over the past three days—largely at IndiGo—stranding hundreds of thousands of ...

India's tighter pilot fatigue (FDTL) norms are reshaping airline schedules, triggering cancellations, delays and a safety ...

A recent survey by the German pilots’ union, Vereinigung Cockpit (VC), reveals that widespread in-flight napping is a common practice among German pilots. The survey collected responses from more than ...