We occasionally hoist ourselves with our own training petards. As Capt. Brian Wilson points out (AW&ST Feb. 22, p. 8), NASA-advocated training in how to recover from a tailplane stall requires the ...

Let me start with the same caution as in yesterday's item about this sad incident: it can take months or years to get the full explanation of an airplane crash, sometimes the real answer is never ...

According to the video, tailplane icing is particularly dangerous because many pilots don't understand it as well as they do wing ice. Some of the tried and true procedures for dealing with wing ice, ...

A week ago we took a look at the mystery of Colgan Air (Continental Connection) Flight 3407, the Dash-8 Q400 turboprop that went down in February outside Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people.

Credit: NASA I wrote on the topic of ice-contaminated tailplane stall a while back and apparently did not understand the problem. It is now years later and I still feel the same as I did then. I ...

As they approached the outer marker at ­Buffalo in their Q400 turboprop, Capt. ­Marvin Renslow, 47, and First Officer ­Rebecca Lynne Shaw, 24, had allowed themselves to be distracted by an ­extended ...

The probable cause of the fatal Colgan Bombardier Q400 crash last year was the captain's inappropriate response to a stickshaker activation warning. That is the conclusion of the US National ...

Colgan Air has submitted a report to the US National Transportation Safety Board saying it believes the fatal 12 February crash of one of is Bombardier Q400s was the result of a loss of situational ...