Aviation

FAA grounds all US departures after NOTAM goes down

Updated 'Damaged database file' blamed, no evidence of cyberattack found, as air travel chaos continues

Networks11 Jan 2023 | 55

Southwest promotes key staff right after that Christmas meltdown

Union claims bosses are flying the biz into 'graveyard spiral'

On-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 10

FAA sets 2024 deadline for preventing 5G crash landings

US watchdog puts its foot down: Even a small possibility of interference means a fix is mandatory

Networks10 Jan 2023 | 11

Southwest Airlines sued for failing to give prompt refunds after IT meltdown

Asking us to 'submit a receipt for consideration' just doesn't cut it, claims would-be class action

Software06 Jan 2023 | 15

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech

On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 117

Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers

Have they tried turning it off and back on again?

Networks28 Dec 2022 | 77

Big Apple locals hire Russians to game New York's taxi system

Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee

Security20 Dec 2022 | 24

British Airways flights grounded due to glitch in flight planning app

Flight computers down for 2 hours worldwide 'and no BA plane can file a flight plan? Seems not ideal'

SaaS20 Dec 2022 | 16

Eurozone plans to formalize passenger data, improve security

Central hub will make things smoother and safer but not store details

Security20 Dec 2022 | 25

Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action

Updated Say what you want – until Elon decides it affects him, too

Offbeat15 Dec 2022 | 189

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line

Boeing … Boeing … gone

Science08 Dec 2022 | 73

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence'

Security03 Dec 2022 | 184

Rolls-Royce, EasyJet fire up first hydrogen-fueled jet engine

Sustainable aviation will require something lighter than batteries

Science29 Nov 2022 | 105

CT scanning tech could put an end to 100ml liquid limit on flights by 2024

Scrapping 'temporary' measure will slash queue times at airports... but don't ditch your baggie yet, say officials

Systems24 Nov 2022 | 68

FAA wants pilots to be less dependent on computer autopilots

US aviation advisory addresses concerns raised follow 2013 Asiana Airlines crash

Software23 Nov 2022 | 87

FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract

But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware)

Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

This is despite a wealth of evidence showing the value of having two in the cockpit

Personal Tech21 Nov 2022 | 164

China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders

Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal

Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 73

SpaceX's in-flight Wi-Fi, Starlink Aviation, takes to the skies

Oh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet?

Networks19 Oct 2022 | 10

Quit worrying about 5G C-band and crashing aircraft, US govt eggheads sigh

Back off FAA, I'm a scientist

Networks12 Oct 2022 | 13

Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Will fly passengers to and from city airports, if it ever takes off

Offbeat12 Oct 2022 | 22

Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3b tie-up delayed over competition concerns

The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive?

Networks07 Oct 2022 | 6

Larry Page's flying taxi startup Kittyhawk calls it a day

More proof, if it were needed, that not everything connected to Google is gold

Offbeat22 Sep 2022 | 18

Heart now pledges 30-seat hybrid electric commercial flights by 2028

We've heard something like this before ... Boss suggests earlier design wasn't that useful to industry

Bootnotes16 Sep 2022 | 75

China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

Competes with the A320 and 737, which Airbus and Boeing can't build quickly enough to satisfy demand

Offbeat14 Sep 2022 | 102

Australian wasps threaten another passenger plane, with help from COVID-19

A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew

Offbeat19 Aug 2022 | 108

US military fuels eVTOL research with $75m contract

The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation

Science12 Aug 2022 | 11

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 3

5G C-band rollout at US airports slowed over radio altimeter safety fears

Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023

Networks27 Jun 2022 | 10

Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes

The A321XLR assumes you're happy spending 11 hours in a single-aisle plane

Offbeat17 Jun 2022 | 158

Ransomware grounds some flights at Indian budget airline SpiceJet

Incident comes a week after 'SAP glitch' kept some planes on the taxiway

Cyber-crime26 May 2022 | 5

FAA now says 5G airports may interfere with Boeing 737s

'Radio altimeters cannot be relied upon to function' – gulp

Networks24 Feb 2022 | 66

US Navy in mad dash to salvage F-35C that fell off a carrier into South China Sea

Where Britain leads, America follows

Bootnotes28 Jan 2022 | 105

Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports

Updated Don't start celebrating just yet if you own a Boeing 747-8, 747-8F, 777

Networks26 Jan 2022 | 28

'95% original' film star Spitfire could be yours for a mere £4.5m (or 0.05 Pogbas)

Freshly overhauled, several careful owners

Offbeat21 Jan 2022 | 52

Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it

(And maintain a guard band.) US airliners melt down as rest of world moves on

Networks19 Jan 2022 | 70

5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here, UK and EU aviation regulators say

US (and Canadian) fears are uniquely Leftpondian, it seems

Networks14 Jan 2022 | 44

50 US airports to be surrounded by 5G C-band-free zones

AT&T and Verizon come to agreement with FAA on tech rollout

Networks10 Jan 2022 | 28

Sun sets on superjumbo: Last Airbus A380 rolls off the production line

It’s massive and fun to fly in, but expensive to run and not as nimble as rivals

Offbeat17 Dec 2021 | 83

After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

Not to mention the FAA delegating its watchdog duties to the actual aircraft manufacturers

Software15 Dec 2021 | 181

Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

He hasn't got $2.5bn to hand to the DoJ, unlike his bosses

Legal15 Oct 2021 | 149

Airline meal-sized £700k awarded by UK.gov for green aviation: That's for eco-tech rather than planes, mind

Infrastructure to support lower-emission aircraft, is the hope

Science30 Sep 2021 | 13

Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

Software 'enhancement' on the way after triple touchdown TITSUP

Software06 Sep 2021 | 153

Japan's aerospace agency hooks up with Boeing to make planes quieter when they land

Hope to address the noise of airflows over flaps and other parts as that can be louder than engines

Science20 Aug 2021 | 76

‘Fasten your seat belts, raise your tray table, and disconnect your Bluetooth headsets from the entertainment unit’

United Airlines buys 200 planes — plans to give ’em ten inches of entertainment and a double dose of wireless

Personal Tech30 Jun 2021 | 39

US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated

Updated Software fixes available, says FAA

Security22 Apr 2021 | 23

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog

Applications08 Apr 2021 | 321

Boeing confirms last 747 to roll off production line in 2022

Last four built will be freighters. And mighty freighters at that

Science13 Jan 2021 | 25

Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they've cracked it

More data points needed, says academic, but technique could give governments a spoofin' bad headache

Security10 Nov 2020 | 22

Mitsubishi grounds its attempt to crack the passenger jet market

$9bn SpaceJet isn’t dead, but defence, mobility and electronics offer better short-term prospects

Science02 Nov 2020 | 4

K8s on a plane! US Air Force slaps Googly container tech on yet another war machine to 'run advanced ML algorithms'

And if that's not Skynet enough for ya, Britten-Norman is working to make the BN-2 Islander fly autonomously

Security08 Oct 2020 | 17

Meet the new aviation insecurity, same as the old aviation insecurity: Next-gen ACAS X just as vulnerable to spoofing as its predecessor

Faking an emergency collision alarm - just what you don't need over Heathrow

Security06 Oct 2020 | 12

Singapore Airlines turns A380 into a restaurant, delivers plane food to homes

As Australia's Qantas sells off old 747 drinks carts, fully loaded

Bootnotes30 Sep 2020 | 34

Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

Solution? A software update, natch

Software24 Sep 2020 | 92

Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity

All is well. Unless you trust everything you see on the internet

Networks18 Sep 2020 | 61

Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks

DEF CON Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec

Security10 Aug 2020 | 95