Before every flight, pilots walk around their aircraft... a ritual the Wright Brothers created. Dan Patterson takes you ...

The following are a number of noteworthy items from the FAA's Air Transportation Operations Inspector's Handbook, FAA Order 8400.10, "Aircraft Checklists" that operators will find pertinent as they ...

Checklists have popped up in several recent Cause&Circumstance columns and safety articles -- checklists ignored, misread, misplaced and misunderstood. We all agree, I think, that checklists deserve ...

Several accidents have shone a spotlight on the important role human factors play in the development of checklists. Legislation would allow waivers for transponder use, and it doesn’t require ADS-B ...

Reading the NTSB's preliminary report on the ill-fated Gulfstream G-IV jet that crashed after a rejected takeoff at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts a few weeks ago killing all 7 people on ...

British hospitals are to take their lead from the aviation industry by implementing an aircraft-style checklist to cut the risks of surgery. Surgeons and nurses will be asked to follow a checklist ...

Flying may be the safest way to travel, but it sure hasn’t felt that way lately. Images of a flaming aircraft on a Tokyo runway and of a door blown off an Alaska Airlines flight seem to have ...

A man proposed to his girlfriend inside a tiny plane 3,000 feet above the English Channel with a surprise aircraft checklist. Floor layer Simon Bannister spends his working life low to the ground but ...