A feature that helps aircraft slow down on landing was broken on a Boeing 737 that skidded into a river in Florida, a top transportation safety official said Sunday. The plane carrying 143 people slid ...

An Emirates Airbus A380 lands at Manchester Airport on a wet runway, producing visible spray as the wheels touch down. The ...

Jet engines are relatively simple in their basic design, but advancements in gas turbine engine technology have mostly done away with the cool-looking bucket-type reverse thrust systems. These thrust ...

US investigators probing a landing overrun which badly damaged a Falcon 10 have determined that the thrust-reversers did not deploy, because the jet was wrongly configured during approach. The inquiry ...

FAR Part 25 governs the certification of transport category aircraft. Within this regulation is specific guidance as to the design of thrust reverser systems. Part 25.933 imposes several important ...

UK investigators have found that an Airbus A320 captain, having initiated a go-around on touchdown at Corfu, cycled the thrust levers forward and back after realising reverse-thrust had already been ...