Outside The Cockpit

On Jeff Fell's final flight, he expressed gratitude to his family, who joined as passengers to commemorate his remarkable 32-year journey in the cockpit.

A yellow warning light, followed by a red: Richard Branson's July 11 voyage to space experienced cockpit warnings about its rocket-powered ascent that could have jeopardized the mission, according to a new report by The New Yorker.

From the outside, the single-engine Cessna Caravan that took off from a small airport in Manassas on Monday looked unremarkable. But inside the cockpit, in the right seat, a robot with spindly metal tubes and rods for arms and legs and a claw hand grasping the throttle, was doing the flying. In the left seat, a human pilot tapped commands to his mu...

It was a fine summer day over the airport at Charlotte, North Carolina and a CRJ200 commuter jet was preparing to land when its pilots spotted something odd outside their cockpit window -- a drone.

The co-pilot "voluntarily" initiated the descent of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday and refused to open the door to the pilot who was outside the cockpit, the lead investigator said on Thursday.

Japan Airlines has grounded another one of its Dreamliner jets after "white smoke" was seen outside the cockpit window during maintenance, a year after the aircraft suffered a months-long global grounding over battery problems.

A fighter jet has crashed during an exhibition at an air show in central China, though there are no reports of casualties. Footage aired by China Central Television shows the jet sputtering and then nose-diving into a field as the pilot ejects from the cockpit and falls to the ground beneath an open parachute. That and other reports said Friday's a...

On Jeff Fell's final flight, he expressed gratitude to his family, who joined as passengers to commemorate his remarkable 32-year journey in the cockpit.

A yellow warning light, followed by a red: Richard Branson's July 11 voyage to space experienced cockpit warnings about its rocket-powered ascent that could have jeopardized the mission, according to a new report by The New Yorker.

From the outside, the single-engine Cessna Caravan that took off from a small airport in Manassas on Monday looked unremarkable. But inside the cockpit, in the right seat, a robot with spindly metal tubes and rods for arms and legs and a claw hand grasping the throttle, was doing the flying. In the left seat, a human pilot tapped commands to his mu...

It was a fine summer day over the airport at Charlotte, North Carolina and a CRJ200 commuter jet was preparing to land when its pilots spotted something odd outside their cockpit window -- a drone.

The co-pilot "voluntarily" initiated the descent of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday and refused to open the door to the pilot who was outside the cockpit, the lead investigator said on Thursday.

Japan Airlines has grounded another one of its Dreamliner jets after "white smoke" was seen outside the cockpit window during maintenance, a year after the aircraft suffered a months-long global grounding over battery problems.

A fighter jet has crashed during an exhibition at an air show in central China, though there are no reports of casualties. Footage aired by China Central Television shows the jet sputtering and then nose-diving into a field as the pilot ejects from the cockpit and falls to the ground beneath an open parachute. That and other reports said Friday's a...