The airspeed indicator is an unreliable primary instrument for flight envelope awareness, particularly at low speeds, as characteristic speeds (like stall speed) vary significantly with G-weight ...

If you’re looking for a staunch advocate of attitude flying, you’ll find none better or more evangelical than Wolfgang Langewiesche in his classic Stick and Rudder. His sermonizing on the importance ...

Russian investigators say they've found a main cause of the plane crash that killed 71 people this weekend. According to the AP, the pilots didn't activate heating equipment that keeps airspeed ...

Bergen Air Flight 301 took off with one broken airspeed indicator, but the cockpit never recovered. As three pilots chased ...

The Lion Air plane that crashed into the ocean last week had been experiencing a "technical problem" with its airspeed indicator, and the gauge had malfunctioned on the jet's final four flights, ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The airspeed indicator on the Lion Air flight JT 610 that crashed in ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The “black box” data recorder from a crashed Lion Air jet shows the airspeed indicator malfunctioned on its last four flights, investigators said Monday, just hours after ...

My colleague Andy Pasztor, a master at crash-investigation reporting who covers the National Transportation Safety Board, has news this afternoon that problems with airspeed indicators may have led to ...

JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Indonesian accident investigators said an airspeed indicator of a Boeing Co 737 MAX plane that crashed last week was damaged for its last four flights, but U.S.

The doomed Lion Air flight that crashed into the sea, killing 189 passengers last month, was found to have a malfunctioning air speed indicator for its last four flights – and, crucially, at the time ...

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