Auto emergency descent is a standard function on newer jets that have the ability to cruise in the high flight levels. Research has shown that 80% of pilots with no experience of rapid/explosive ...

Passengers on board a Qantas flight from Darwin to Cairns had a terrifying sudden descent emergency, plunging from around 31,000 feet to 10,000 feet. The frightening incident happened around 20-30 ...

Air China Flight CA106 lost more than 20,000 feet of altitude within a matter of minutes on Tuesday. According to Chinese aviation regulators, the loss of altitude was caused by an emergency descent ...

BEIJING—A warning of abnormal pressurization forced the flight crew of a Shenzhen Airlines Airbus A330-300 to make an emergency descent at 3,600 ft. per minute on Aug. 9. The abnormality was ...

The successful touchdown instantly shifted Autoland from futuristic promise to operational reality, raising questions about ...

The Wall Street Journal used video shared on social media and other reporting to piece together how the engine on Southwest Airlines flight 1380 broke apart, ultimately killing a passenger and forcing ...

Airbus is considering equipping the A350 XWB with an automated system that would put the aircraft into an unaided emergency descent if it detected unsafe cabin pressure. The system would only initiate ...

Chinese authorities are investigating after an Air China aircraft made an emergency descent to 10,000 feet (3,048 metres), during which oxygen masks were deployed, and then climbed again to continue ...

Passengers on board a Ryanair flight that plunged 20,000 ft in an emergency descent have begun legal proceedings against the airline. In 2012, the flight from Bergamo, in Italy, to East Midlands ...

Survitec unveiled a new emergency descent system in Bilbao, Spain. Evacuator, dubbed by the company as the world’s first fire-proof emergency descent system, is designed to evacuate people in ...