Accident investigators think icing of Pitot tubes used to determine aircraft air speed might have caused the crash of Air France flight 447 on 31 May 2009. Although journalists and others have talked ...

Everyone involved with IAQ knows about the 1970s, when excess energy use became Public Enemy No. 1 for commercial building designers. Saving energy was the critical goal: Air leaks were being hunted ...

June 10 (Reuters) - Attention is focusing on the possibility that faulty speed sensors, or pitot tubes, were a factor in causing an Air France Airbus A330 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean last week.

The saga over Airbus A330/A340 pitot tube continues. This time, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive related to Goodrich tubes. Operators have been ...

Investigators believe a Boeing 757-200 crew's struggle to establish stable flight after a pitot tube blockage could have been avoided if the pilots had aborted take-off at low speed rather than opt to ...

Boeing says a simple wiring change will solve a persistent issue that operators of its 737 next-generation models have been experiencing with pitot probes—the external sensors that provide crucial ...

The US FAA has followed EASA in issuing a final airworthiness directive calling for operators of Airbus A330 and A340 series aircraft to replace certain Thales pitot tubes by 7 January. EASA issued a ...

(Reuters) - Attention is focusing on the possibility that faulty speed sensors, or pitot tubes, were a factor in causing an Air France Airbus A330 to crash into the Atlantic Ocean last week. The crash ...