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Asiana Airlines A350 drops altitude . On February 23, an Asiana Airlines Airbus A350-900 aircraft, performing flight OZ-212, was on its final approach to San Francisco International Airport (SFO ...

The FAA and the Air Traffic Controllers announced they are redefining the "Class B Airspace" around Houston and expanding the Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility at Bush-IAH. In ...

Ryanair has introduced a ‘discontinued approach’ procedure after a serious incident at London Stansted during which a Boeing 737 Max 8-200 breached its go-around altitude, leading the crew to ...

What Is a VOR Approach in Aviation? A VOR approach is an instrument approach that uses a VOR navaid to provide course guidance to pilots.The VOR operates in the frequency range of 108.0 to 117.95 ...

But an aviation expert who reviewed the plane’s flight path said it appeared the pilot tried to perform a difficult landing maneuver at a very low altitude shortly before the crash.

Don’t be alarmed if you spot sleek aircraft flying low over farmland or urban corridors in the next few days — it’s NASA in ...

Noise nuisance from aircraft can be reduced significantly by changing the way the planes come in to land. Lining up with the runway as far as 70 kilometres away and making a steady descent can ...

Approaching LOPIC, the initial approach fix from the north, I pulled both throttles back to idle thrust and maintained altitude as the airplane slowed to the best glide speed of about 120 knots.

Data from FlightRadar24, which tracks and records aircraft data for most flights across the U.S., showed the helicopter's last estimated altitude was about 400 feet when it crashed.